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New York and London
My recent trip to NYC and the short weekend away to London were amazing. I can’t wait to live in London and wouldn’t mind to live, at some point, in NYC for a while. So another two places added on my list of simply great places to be. What I love about metropolises, just like Tokyo, [...] -
Foreign Farmland Acquisition – Controlling ‘Land Grabs’
I finished my thesis more than a month ago already but time has not allowed me yet to update my blog for quite a while. It has been an interesting undertaking with some surprising and other not-so-surprising conclusions. Below the abstract of the thesis, titled foreign farmland acquisition – controlling ‘land grabs’. If you are interested in [...] -
Land Grabs aren’t all that bad?
I’ve introduced the threats large long-term agricultural investments can cause in least developed countries here. The question that I then tried to answer was: while the media terms these deals ‘land grabs’ (with a negative connotation implying there is only negative impact), what are the actual opportunities, especially for the local level? Before sharing with [...]
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Losing Land and Livelihoods
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