Large-Scale Land Acquisitions

Christophe Gironde is a political economist who works as a lecturer in development studies and researcher at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. His research interests are agrarian change, sustainable livelihoods and human development, in particular in continental South-East Asia.Christophe Golay is research fellow and coordinator of the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He is also a lecturer at the Geneva Centre for Research and Education in Humanitarian Action.Peter Messerli is Director of the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), at the University of Bern. He is a human geographer who focuses on human–environmental systems in developing countries and is hence specifically interested in processes of rural transformation where land decisions are increasingly driven by globalised and distant decision-making processes.

• ForewordPrefaceList of FiguresList of TablesList of Acronyms and AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsPART 1: Setting the Scene: History, State and Law1 Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: A Historical PerspectiveLaurence Roudart and Marcel Mazoyer2 States as Actors in International Agro-InvestmentsMartin Keulertz and Eckart Woertz3 The Role of Property Rights in the Debate on Large-Scale Land AcquisitionsOlivier De SchutterPART 2: Land Dynamics and Livelihoods in South-East Asia4 The Impact of Larger-Scale Agricultural Investments on Communities in South-East Asia: A First AssessmentJames Zhan, Hafiz Mirza, and William Speller5 Sweet and Bitter: Trajectories of Sugar Cane Investments in Northern Luzon, the Philippines, and Aceh, Indonesia, 2006–13Mohamad Shohibuddin, Maria Lisa Alano, and Gerben Nooteboom6 Marginal Land or Marginal People? Analysing Patterns and Processes of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in South-East AsiaPeter Messerli, Amaury Peeters, Oliver Schoenweger, Vong Nanhthavong, and Andreas Heinimann7 From Lagging Behind to Losing Ground: Cambodian and Laotian Household Economy and Large-Scale Land AcquisitionsChristophe Gironde and Gilda Senties Portilla8 ‘Better-Practice’ Concessions? Lessons from Cambodia’s Leopard-Skin LandscapeMichael B. Dwyer, Emily Polack and Sokbunthoeun SoPART 3: Human Rights and Large-Scale Land Acquisitions9 Identifying and Monitoring Human Rights Violations Associated with Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: A Focus on United Nations Mechanisms and  South-East AsiaChristophe Golay10 Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Cambodia: Where Do (Human Rights) Law and Practice Meet?Ioana Cismas and Patricia Paramita11 Large-Scale Land Acquisitions, Livelihoods and Human Rights in South-East AsiaChristophe Gironde and Christophe GolayIndex