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The land grabbing in the international scenario: the role of the EU in land grabbing
2016
The worldwide increase in population and consumption has produced a growing demand for food and energy in the rich and developing Countries. The resulting intensification of land investments, to cope with this need, has in many cases produced investments without transparency rules and it hasn't created real development for local people. The aim of this paper is to identify, through a cluster analysis, homogeneous groups of investor Countries in order to understand the role of the EU Member States in the context of land grabbing. The results show that the strategies adopted by the investors are driven by the need to achieve energy security and reduce CO2 emissions in order to cope with the p…
Land Grabbing Models in the International Scenario: the Case Study of the European Union
2015
The worldwide increase in population and consumption has produced a growing demand for food and energy in the rich and developing Countries and has intensiied the search for land on which to carry investments without transparency rules and without creating real conditions of development of local populations. The aim of this paper is to identify, through a cluster analysis, homogeneous group of investor countries and to verify if exist Land grabbing model for the EU Member States. The results show that the strategies adopted by the investors are driven by the need to achieve energy security and reduce CO2 emissions and to cope with the problems of food security in view of the exponential gro…
Le due crisi: crisi del capitalismo e crisi ambientale. Una soluzione sostenibile?
2015
Le due crisi in titolo sono due facce di una stessa medaglia; e il tema verrà trattato su questa rivista in due parti divise solo al fine di agevolare la lettura. Nella Parte I si evidenzia come la crisi ambientale derivi dal generale rapporto di predazione e spoliazione delle risorse naturali, caratteristico del modo capitalistico di produzione e consumo; ancor più devastante nella sua attuale fase “iperliberista”. I danni sociali della crisi economica sono drammaticamente evidenti alla maggior parte dell’opinione pubblica – la critica alle attuali teorie e modelli economici sarà oggetto della Parte II – mentre le altrettanto drammatiche conseguenze della crisi ambientale faticano a diveni…
Il Nomos della terra nel bassopiano etiopico
2015
Il capitolo descrive la connessione tra progetti di sviluppo agricolo e costruzione dello Stato nei bassopiani dell'Etiopia moderna