Although there is considerable research regarding the connection between land grabs and globalization processes, little has been written about the land grab phenomenon from a global governance perspective. This paper applies the notion of a regime complex to the extant governance institutions surrounding land grabs. It only takes a very cursory examination of colonial and imperial history to realize that scrambles for rich lands have underpinned geopolitics for several hundred years. However, this paper takes the position that both the driving forces behind current land investments and proposals to manage their most deleterious effects combine to make today’s global land grab distinct from those of the past.
This paper has three objectives, namely to (i) probe the global processes that have led to the current global land grab; (ii) contribute to the literature by identifying the governance responses that have surfaced in the wake of this new phenomenon; and (iii) assess the characteristics of mainstream governance approaches to land grabs.
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This paper has three objectives, namely to (i) probe the global processes that have led to the current global land grab; (ii) contribute to the literature by identifying the governance responses that have surfaced in the wake of this new phenomenon; and (iii) assess the characteristics of mainstream governance approaches to land grabs.
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