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Governing the Global Land Grab

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Following the 2007–2008 world food price crisis, the value of developing world agricultural land shot up, raising concerns about a ‘land grab’, In response, the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) promulgated the Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure of Land, Forests and Fisheries (VGGT) in an effort to strengthen the land rights of customary users. How do we explain the VGGT's emergence? The argument I make is that the VGGT was largely due to the efforts of a group of non†governmental organizations that effectively transformed debates over developing world agricultural land from an economic or consequentialist issue of increasing farm productivity and output into a moral or deontological one of protecting the human rights of those who worked the land through customary use. The article addresses the utility of the VGGT as an instrument for strengthening land rights along with its limits.

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  • Ethan B. Kapstein, 2018. "Governing the Global Land Grab," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 9(2), pages 173-183, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:glopol:v:9:y:2018:i:2:p:173-183
    DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.12543
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    1. Dieterle, Carolin, 2022. "Global governance meets local land tenure: international codes of conduct for responsible land investments in Uganda," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 111962, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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