Interpreting Global Land and Water Grabbing through Two Rival Economic Paradigms
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Global land and water grabbing.
Societal pressure on the global land and freshwater resources is increasing as a result of the rising food demand by the growing human population, dietary changes, and the enhancement of biofuel production induced by the rising oil prices and recent changes in United States and European Union bioethanol policies. Many countries and corporations have started to acquire relatively inexpensive and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academicus International Scientific Journal
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2079-3715
DOI: 10.7336/academicus.2018.18.04