Conference Agenda

ID: 601 / 03-12: 1
Individual Papers
Topics: Large scale land acquisition: Agriculture, extractives, infrastructure
Keywords: Large-scale land acquisition, kenya, Mozambique, Madagascar

How and why large-scale agricultural investments induce diverse trajectories of regional development in Kenya, Madagascar and Mozambique

Markus Giger¹, Christoph Oberlack¹, Ward Anseeuw², Camilla Adele³, Magalie Bourblanc⁴, Perrine Burnod⁵, Sandra Eckert¹, Wega Fitawek³, Eve Fouilleux⁶, Sheryl L Hendriks³, Boniface Kiteme⁷, Sara Mercandalli⁴, Aurelien Reys⁶, Maya da Silva³, Michael Van Der Laan³, Julie Zaehringer¹, Peter Messerli¹

¹Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland; ²CIRAD / International Land Coalition; ³University of Pretoria; ⁴CIRAD / University of Pretoria; ⁵CIRAD / Observatoire du foncier Madagascar; ⁶CIRAD, France; ⁷CETRAD, Kenya

ID: 1056 / 03-12: 2
Individual Papers
Topics: Large scale land acquisition: Agriculture, extractives, infrastructure
Keywords: Investment decisions, Land use, Land based investments, Southern and Eastern Africa, Agriculture and forestry

Investing in land versus land use: analyzing investment decisions by transnational forestry and agriculture companies

Dilini Abeygunawardane¹, Patrick Meyfroidt^1,2, Angela Kronenburg García¹

¹Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium; ²F.R.S.- FNRS, Brussels, Belgium

ID: 410 / 03-12: 4
Individual Papers
Topics: Large scale land acquisition: Agriculture, extractives, infrastructure
Keywords: access to land, agriculture transformation, feed Africa, large scale land acquisition

Large-scale land aggregation for transforming and scaling up African agriculture

Maria Marealle

African Development Bank, Côte d'Ivoire