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The SDGs and the bio-economy: fostering land-grabbing in Africa

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  • Jean-Claude N. Ashukem

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This article analyses the contributory role of the bio-economy and the UN General Assembly Sustainable Development Goals in facilitating and fostering land-grabbing in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that with the rapidly increasing demand for land and the use of agricultural produce for food and energy purposes, the bio-economy, together with the Sustainable Development Goals, has inexorably exacerbated the practice of land-grabbing in sub-Saharan Africa, where land is considered to be abundant, empty and unused. Sub-Saharan Africa has again been perceived primarily as a steady supplier of land for the production of food and non-food crops.

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  • Jean-Claude N. Ashukem, 2020. "The SDGs and the bio-economy: fostering land-grabbing in Africa," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(164), pages 275-290, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:47:y:2020:i:164:p:275-290
    DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2019.1687086
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    1. Zeug, Walther & Bezama, Alberto & Thrän, Daniela, 2020. "Towards a holistic and integrated Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of the bioeconomy: Background on concepts, visions and measurements," UFZ Discussion Papers 7/2020, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Division of Social Sciences (ÖKUS).

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