Front cover -- About the editors -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures, tables and boxes -- Introduction: the global land grab hype - and why it is important to move beyond -- Introduction: a twofold hype -- The current global land rush: what do we know? -- Understanding the current global land rush as a hype cycle3 -- Manifestations on the ground: the case studies presented in this book -- Africa -- 1 Modernizing the periphery: citizenship and Ethiopia's new agricultural investment policies -- Introduction -- Background -- Table 1.1 Area of farmland acquired by private investors by region, 1992-2010 -- 1.1 Food price index and proportion of investments, projects in Ethiopia, 1992-2010 -- Methodology -- Table 1.2 Overview of the investment planning process -- Overview of case studies -- 1.2 Topographical map of Ethiopia -- Table 1.3 Overview of case study investments -- Findings -- Discussion and conclusion -- 2 Large-scale land acquisitions in Tanzania: a critical analysis of practices and dynamics -- Introduction -- Background to Tanzanian agriculture development and foreign investment -- Land laws and land acquisition processes -- Developments in the land policy and land acquisition processes -- Do large-scale land acquisitions exist? -- 2.1 The number of new companies investing in agriculture, registered by the TIC annually, 2001-12 -- Concluding remarks -- 3 Kenya and the 'global land grab': a view from below -- Introduction -- The origins of the system of land grabbing -- The Kenyan experience of land grabbing -- From resistance to reform -- The 'global land grab' viewed from Kenya -- Table 3.1 Summary table of some recent large-scale land investments in Kenya -- Conclusions -- Latin America -- 4 The rapid expansion of genetically modified soy production into the Chaco region of Argentina -- Introduction.

The expansion of the soy frontier: how did it happen? -- 4.1 South American Chaco region -- 4.2 Argentina: current soy-producing provinces -- Assessing the impact -- Conclusions -- 5 Transnational land investment in Costa Rica: tracing residential tourism and its implications for development -- Introduction -- Guanacaste's historical 'land grabs' and connections to North America -- The current hype: residential tourism development in Guanacaste -- 5.1 Planned/announced and completed residential tourism entities (plots, houses and apartments) per type of town, research area -- Externally led economic development -- Access to land -- Policy and community involvement -- Conclusion -- 6 Water grabbing in the Andean region: illustrative cases from Peru and Ecuador -- Introduction -- Accumulation of water in the hands of the few -- Case analysis of Peru -- Table 6.1 Farm units, irrigated areas and number of irrigators in Peru -- Table 6.2 Largest buyers of lots in the Chavimochic Project, 1994-2006 period -- Table 6.3 Buyers of lots in the Olmos Project in auctions on 9 December 2011 and 12 April 2012 -- Case analysis of Ecuador -- Table 6.4 Consumptive use of water according to rights -- Table 6.5 Percentages of total and irrigated farmland in Ecuador, 2000 -- Table 6.6 Formalized concentration of well water -- Discussion and conclusions -- Asia -- 7 Land governance and oil palm development: examples from Riau Province, Indonesia -- Introduction -- Oil palm expansion in Indonesia -- Box 7.1 The economics of Riau Province -- Land governance and natural resources management -- Table 7.1 Land tenure forms as recognized by the Basic Agrarian Law No. 5/1960 -- 7.1 Land administration and responsible land agencies -- Table 7.2 Forestland licensing recognized by P.50/2010, which was amended by P.26/2012.

Box 7.2 The roles of the forestry sector in Riau Province -- Regional autonomy and forestry decentralization -- Box 7.3 Decentralization in Riau Province -- Competing claims for land and natural resources -- Table 7.3 The Indonesian economic corridors and their main economic activities -- Concluding remarks -- 8 Vietnam in the debate on land grabbing: conversion of agricultural land for urban expansion and hydropower development -- Introduction -- Agricultural land conversion in Vietnam: an overview -- Table 8.1 Vietnam land deals in other countries and foreign deals in Vietnam -- Table 8.2 Land use change between 2000 and 2009 -- Hydropower dam development -- Table 8.3 The poverty rate of households living in resettlement sites -- Discussion and conclusion -- 9 'Land grabbing' in Cambodia: land rights in a post-conflict setting -- Introduction -- Setting the scene: Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) and local communities -- Land governance and local communities: legal and institutional framework -- Impact on local livelihoods -- Table 9.1 Timeline of indigenous communities, marking key events and trends -- Drivers: forces leading to large-scale acquisition and foreignization of land -- The EU sugar regime reform and the EBA -- Conclusion -- 10 Beyond the Gulf State investment hype: the case of Indonesia and the Philippines -- Introduction -- The GCC investment narrative -- Why deals did not materialize -- Table 10.1 Announced and realized foreign investments in food crops in the Philippines -- Conclusions -- 11 Tracing the dragon's footsteps: a deconstruction of the discourse on China's foreign land investments -- Introduction -- Unpacking the discourse: China's global emergence and its hallmarks in foreign affairs -- Who are these Chinese? Disaggregating Chinese actors in overseas land acquisitions.

China's land acquisitions in time and place: what is new and what is true? -- 11.1 Chinese overseas land-based investments, 1949-99 -- 11.2 Chinese overseas land-based investments, 2000-08 -- 11.3 Chinese overseas land-based investments, 2009-11 -- The impetus for China's foreign land investments: state guidance and private interests -- Going beyond the hype: rethinking the Chinese 'land grabs' discourse -- 12 Conclusion: beyond the global land grab hype - ways forward in research and action -- The 'global land grab' revisited -- Ways forward in research and action -- Box 12.1 The Voluntary Guidelines -- Final reflections: why the land grab hype was good -- Notes -- About the contributors -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.