article lecture 4 Fairhead 'Green grabbing'

Question 1

Green grabbing

Answer 1

the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends

Question 2

excuses to justify land grabbing

Answer 2

• more efficient farming
• food security
• alleviate pressure on the forests

Question 3

Examples of green grabbing

Answer 3

• biodiversity conservation
• bio fuels
• biocarbon sequestration
• ecosystem services
• ecotourism

Question 4

new range of actors and alliances

Answer 4

• pension funds
• venture capitalist
• commodity traders
• consultants
• GIS service providers
• business entrepreneurs
• ecotourism companies
• the military
• green activists
• anxious consumers

find once unlikely common interest