Terms
Largely thought of as a tangible thing but can be abstract in terms of ownership.
What is Land?
When there is a worldwide consensus that there is limited access to food for many economically disadvantaged people.
What is Global Anticipation of Food Insecurity?
The presumption that land is not being used.
What is availability of land?
Foreign Direct Investment
What is FDI?
Colonialism that involves land dispossession.
What is settler colonalism?
Recurring theme in course that highlights inequality with regard to hunger and food access.
What is food insecurity?
Rules, Regulations and Incentives- Who is to blame?
What is imposed by the international community?
The presumption that land perceived is appropriate for certain use.
What is plentiful land?
People 55 and over from the Global North migrating to countries with a cheaper way of life.
What is retirement and residential immigration?
Allows communities control over how food is produced, traded and consumed.
What is food sovereignty?
The practice of farming one type of crop for profit ad opposed to livelihood.
What is Industrial Monoculture?
Zone that has different business and trade laws from other parts of a country.
What is a Special Economic Zone?
A barrier to effective farming productivity.
What is poor infastructure?
People in the diaspora owning land
What is land purchase by migrants (absentee citizens)?
An example of a small-scale farm is...
What is Black Creek?
Some governments engaged in redistribution post-independence but became corporation-centered.
What is Regressive Land Reform?
When countries essentially lose their sovereignty by being forced to outsource their energy.
What is foreignization of energy resources?
Land that may not be legally owned and essential to the community.
What is a source of livelihood?
Marriott, Four Seasons, Hilton etc are examples of...
What is a large-scale tourist complex?
If Walmart were a farm, it would be...
What is large-scale farming?
Socio-economic sentiment that deals with the shift of decision-making from corporate entities to a more egalitarian stakeholder group involving the community.
What is Economic Democracy?
Market environmentalism- Appropriation of land for parks and reserves at the expense of local people.
What is the Great Green Land Grab?
Not doing due diligence about the past initiatives involving a particular piece of land.
What is historical analysis in reference to land?
A form of tourism that involves the environment and wildlife as an attraction.
What is ecotourism?
Essentially egalised the theft of Indigenous land and offered land to white settlers.
What is 1862 Homestead Act?