13Impacts of large-scale land acquisitions on common-pool resources
Evidence from the Land Matrix
Markus Giger, Kerstin Nolte, Ward Anseeuw, Thomas Breu, Wytske Chamberlain, Peter Messerli, Christoph Oberlack and Tobias Haller
Introduction
When prices for agricultural commodities reached record highs in 2008 and again in 2011, reports about a rush for land made headlines in news media around the world. Observers and analysts explained this phenomenon – which we refer to as large-scale land acquisition (LSLA) – by pointing to factors like the expectation of continued high commodity prices, fear of food shortages in the face of an increasing (and increasingly better-off) global population, agrofuel production, speculation, and the quest for ...
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