Imageries of the contested concepts “land grabbing” and “land transactions”
Implications for biofuels investments in Ghana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8945898 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Festus Boamah (0000-0001-9764-6868, University of Bergen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Pages | 324-334 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geoforum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.10.009 |
| OpenAlex | W1973754498 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 15 |
Agriculture · Business · Economics · Land grabbing · Natural resource economics · Public economics · Skepticism · Transaction cost · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Energy and Environment Impacts · Finance
Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa
The impact of smallholder farmers’ knowledge on climate change adaptation on food security in Tanzania
Renewable Energy Deployment in Ghana
Crop booms at subtropic frontiers
How and why large scale agricultural land investments do not create long-term employment benefits
How can we engage farmers in bioenergy development? Building a social innovation strategy for rice straw bioenergy in the Philippines and Vietnam
Global political economy and Frontier economies in Africa
Commercial yet social
Embodied energy injustice and the political ecology of solar power
Towards a classification of the drivers of jatropha collapse in Ghana elicited from the perceptions of multiple stakeholders
The rise and fall of foreign private investment in the jatropha biofuel value chain in Ghana
Is anticipatory governance opening up or closing down future possibilities? Findings from diverse contexts in the Global South
Narrating Green Economies in the Global South
Land-grabbing, land-use transformation and social differentiation
Private cities, land, and the transformation of Africa’s urban fringe
Towards a science of ‘land grabbing’
The role of chiefs in large-scale land acquisitions for jatropha production in Ghana
Biofuel feedstock plantations closure and land abandonment in Ghana
Water and land investment in the “overseas” of Northern Ghana
Commercial land deals and the interactions between investors and local people
Community land governance in Liberia
Land dispossessions and water appropriations
Approaches to anticipatory governance in West Africa
Persistent Shadows of Legal Pluralism
Sustainable’ biofuels in the global South
Labelling large-scale land acquisitions as land grabs
Cosmopolitan encounters provoke a change in habits
Between two hypes
Agricultural diversification and dietary diversity
Marketising the commons in Africa
Migration, African migrants, and the world
Unpacking Land Grabs
A Shadowy 'City of Light
Who grabs the land? Unveiling the role of domestic actors in the global land rush
Gender, land grabbing and agrarian livelihoods
From boomerangs to minefields and catapults
Metaphors We Live By
Making political ecology
Development narratives, or making the best of blueprint development
False forest history, complicit social analysis
How and why chiefs formalise land use in recent times
Political Ecology
Essentially contested concepts
Biofuels, land grabbing and food security in Africa
Gender Myths and Feminist Fables
Representing Crisis
Advancing a Political Ecology of Global Environmental Discourses
Earth Mother Myths and Other Ecofeminist Fables
After Nature
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |