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| Title: | Land Acquisitions for Food and Fuel |
| Author(s): | Margulis, Matias |
| Contact Email: | m.e.margulis@stir.ac.uk |
| Editor(s): | Thompson, PB Kaplan, DM |
| Citation: | Margulis M (2014) Land Acquisitions for Food and Fuel. In: Thompson P & Kaplan D (eds.) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 1325-1332. http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-007-0929-4_345 |
| Keywords: | Large-scale land acquisitions land grabbing land grabs land rush foreign investment in agriculture off-shore agricultural production biofuel agrofuel bioenergy |
| Issue Date: | 2014 |
| Date Deposited: | 10-Jun-2015 |
| Abstract: | The recent global proliferation of large-scale land acquisitions is for food and fuel is a new and significant issue in the study of food and agriculture ethics. This article examines large-scale land acquisitions for food and fuel from a global ethics perspective. The first section provides an overview of key definitions, characteristics and trends related to large-scale land acquisitions. The second section explores the idea of a global ethics and situates it within food and agriculture ethics. The third section poses and discuses two questions related to ethics of large-scale land acquisitions. |
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