Between 2000 and 2016, China and the UK acquired large areas of land through investment projects in sub-Saharan Africa. Ariane Goetz explains the global phenome

Despite being heavily endowed with land and other natural resources, Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest poverty rate in the world. A key to leveraging its land

Since 2008, foreign land acquisitions have attracted international attention under the term »land grabbing.« Illustrated by rich and nuanced empirical account

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