ABSTRACT
The phenomenon of recent Large Scale Land Acquisitions (LSLAs) for agriculture in developing countries possibly more than any other food security related topic has made it to the headlines of the international press in recent years, pioneered by alarming reports of the non-governmental organization (NGO) GRAIN (2008). In academic circles, attention to LSLAs has risen dramatically, too, first – because of a lack of empirical data – more on a conceptual and theoretical basis but more recently also a wave of case studies is flooding scientific conferences and journals, e.g. Futures Agriculture 2011 and 2012 conferences in Sussex 1 and Cornell, 2 several annual World Bank ‘Land and Poverty’ conferences in Washington, 3 the Journal of Peasant Studies, 4 Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 5 Globalizations, 6 Development and Change 7 and others.
