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Lennart Olsson, LUCSUS

Lennart Olsson

Professor, Docent

Lennart Olsson, LUCSUS

The African Land-Grab: Creating Equitable Governance Strategies through Codes-of-Conduct and Certification Schemes

Author

  • Barry Ness
  • Sara Brogaard
  • Lennart Olsson
  • Stefan Anderberg

Summary, in English

This paper examines two failed land acquisition processes for food and biofuels production in Africa with the aim to establishing more equitable governance strategies. More specifically it explores the roles of certification schemes and codes-of-conduct can play in these processes. The two cases used are the South Korean Daewoo Logistics case in Madagascar and the Swedish SEKAB in Tanzania. The methods used were a literature survey and a case structuring using a multi-level (governance) framework. Analyses reveal that governance disconnects occurred between the regional and village levels with the Daewoo-Madagascar case driven largely by a lack of transparency in the negotiation process. The SEKAB-Tanzania case failed largely due to discrepancies revealed by an interest organization and the inability of traditional governance systems to manage the scale of the project. Lastly the paper presents a framework consisting of four areas where certification schemes and codes-of-conduct can be used in order to provide a governance system in order to increase access and allocation aspects.

Department/s

  • LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Document type

Conference paper: abstract

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Conference name

Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change ‘Earth System Governance: People, Places and the Planet’

Conference date

2009-11-30

Conference place

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Status

Published