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345600436
APP
2012-09-05
INP
2012-09-05
STA
Approved
UPD
2012-09-14
DUT
land grabbing
DAT
Added 2012.
IND
1
MIS
Bron Wikipedia (land grabbing, accessed 04.09.2012); Landgrabbing in Africa: a review of the impacts and the possible policy responses / by Tinyade Kachika (e-doc, zie ASC-catalogus)
PPN
345600436
SN
The buying or leasing of large tracts of land by domestic and transnational companies, governments and individuals for commercial and industrial agricultural production. The popular term 'land grabbing' refers primarily to the large-scale land acquisitions following the global food price crisis of 2007-2008 but is, in fact, of all times.
UF
land grabbing
RT
land
land use
landownership
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