The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush

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The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush

Jampel Dell'Angelo¹, Paolo D'Odorico², Paolo D'Odorico³, Maria Cristina Rulli⁴, Philippe Marchand - Show less +1 more•Institutions (4)

VU University Amsterdam¹, University of Virginia², University of California, Berkeley³, Polytechnic University of Milan⁴

01 Apr 2017-World Development (Elsevier BV)-Vol. 92, pp 1-12

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the notion of commons grabbing and report on an exploratory study that applied meta-analytical methods, drawing from the recent literature on large-scale land acquisitions and land grabbing.

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About: This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 2017-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 206 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Land grabbing & Commons.

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The Global Food-Energy-Water Nexus

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Paolo D'Odorico¹, Kyle Frankel Davis², Lorenzo Rosa¹, Joel A. Carr³, Davide Danilo Chiarelli⁴, Jampel Dell'Angelo⁵, Jessica A. Gephart, Graham K. MacDonald⁶, David A. Seekell⁷, Samir Suweis⁸, Maria Cristina Rulli⁴ - Show less +7 more•Institutions (8)

University of California, Berkeley¹, Columbia University², Patuxent Wildlife Research Center³, Polytechnic University of Milan⁴, VU University Amsterdam⁵, McGill University⁶, Umeå University⁷, University of Padua⁸

01 Sep 2018-Reviews of Geophysics

TL;DR: This review explores multiple components of the food‐energy‐water nexus and highlights possible approaches that could be used to meet food and energy security with the limited renewable water resources of the planet.

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Abstract: Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and energy needs of a growing and increasingly affluent human population. Water plays an important role ...

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Gender equality in science, medicine, and global health: where are we at and why does it matter?

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Geordan Shannon¹, Melanie Jansen, Kate Williams², Carlos F. Caceres³, Angélica Motta³, Aloyce Odhiambo, Alie Eleveld, Jenevieve Mannell¹ - Show less +4 more•Institutions (3)

University College London¹, Marie Stopes International², Cayetano Heredia University³

09 Feb 2019-The Lancet

TL;DR: This Review presents a high-level synthesis of global gender data, summarise progress towards gender equality in science, medicine, and global health, review the evidence for why gender Equality in these fields matters in terms of health and social outcomes, and reflect on strategies to promote change.

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Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: Patterns, drivers, and socio-environmental impacts

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Paolo D'Odorico¹, Joel A. Carr², Carole Dalin³, Jampel Dell'Angelo¹, Jampel Dell'Angelo⁴, Megan Konar⁵, Francesco Laio⁶, Luca Ridolfi⁶, Lorenzo Rosa¹, Samir Suweis⁷, Stefania Tamea⁶, Marta Tuninetti⁶ - Show less +8 more•Institutions (7)

University of California, Berkeley¹, United States Geological Survey², University College London³, VU University Amsterdam⁴, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign⁵, Polytechnic University of Turin⁶, University of Padua⁷

26 Apr 2019-Environmental Research Letters

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the global spatiotemporal dynamics, drivers, and impacts of virtual water trade through an integrated analysis of surface water, groundwater, and root-zone soil moisture consumption for agricultural production.

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Abstract: The increasing global demand for farmland products is placing unprecedented pressure on the global agricultural system and its water resources. Many regions of the world, that are affected by a chronic water scarcity relative to their population, strongly depend on the import of agricultural commodities and associated embodied (or virtual) water. The globalization of water through virtual water trade (VWT) is leading to a displacement of water use and a disconnection between human populations and the water resources they rely on. Despite the recognized importance of these phenomena in reshaping the patterns of water dependence through teleconnections between consumers and producers, their effect on global and regional water resources has just started to be quantified. This review investigates the global spatiotemporal dynamics, drivers, and impacts of VWT through an integrated analysis of surface water, groundwater, and root-zone soil moisture consumption for agricultural production; it evaluates how virtual water flows compare to the major 'physical water fluxes' in the Earth System; and provides a new reconceptualization of the hydrologic cycle to account also for the role of water redistribution by the hidden 'virtual water cycle'.

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Land degradation and poverty

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Edward B. Barbier¹, Jacob P. Hochard²•Institutions (2)

Colorado State University¹, East Carolina University²

01 Nov 2018

TL;DR: The interaction between land degradation and the livelihoods of the poor is complex and conditioned by important economic, social and environmental factors as discussed by the authors, and these factors are also in part responsible for the limited success of economic growth policies to reduce poverty.

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Abstract: Land is one of the few productive assets owned by the rural poor, and almost all such households engage in some form of agriculture. Over 2000–2010 the rural poor on degrading agricultural land increased in low-income countries and in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Although degradation threatens the livelihoods of the poor, this interaction is complex and conditioned by key economic, social and environmental factors. These factors also limit the poverty-reducing impacts of economic growth and economy-wide reforms. A comprehensive development strategy requires investments that improve the livelihoods of affected populations and regions, and facilitates outmigration in severely impacted areas. The interaction between land degradation and the livelihoods of the poor is complex and conditioned by important economic, social and environmental factors. These factors are also in part responsible for the limited success of economic growth policies to reduce poverty.

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The Global Water Grabbing Syndrome

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Jampel Dell'Angelo¹, Maria Cristina Rulli², Paolo D'Odorico³•Institutions (3)

VU University Amsterdam¹, Polytechnic University of Milan², University of California, Berkeley³

01 Jan 2018-Ecological Economics

TL;DR: In this paper, a formal definition of blue water grabbing based on biophysical conditions (water scarcity) and ethical implications (human right to food) is proposed, where blue water grabs are appropriations of irrigation (i.e., blue) water in regions affected by undernourishment and where agricultural production is constrained by blue water availability.

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