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‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

Offered By: The Open University via OpenLearn

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Course Description

Overview

This free course, ‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?, explores how environmental problems are entangled with economic and political issues and offers tools for making sense of the complexity that results. The case of land grab illustrates how everyday issues such as food prices are caught up in connections that link different places, different people and their livelihoods across the globe; connections that are brought to life in the course through rich audio-visual material and interactive activities.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Analytical concepts used in this course
  • 1 Analytical concepts used in this course
  • 2 Securing food, sharing land
  • 2 Securing food, sharing land
  • 2.1 The global demand for agricultural land
  • 2.2 Land acquisitions in Africa
  • 3 Senegal and land acquisition/land grab
  • 3 Senegal and land acquisition/land grab
  • 4 Power, agency and property rights
  • 4 Power, agency and property rights
  • 4.1 Pressures on the land
  • 5  Discourses and land grabs
  • 5  Discourses and land grabs
  • 5.1 Land acquisition or land grab?
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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