The SDGs and the bio-economy: fostering land-grabbing in Africa. Issue 164 (2nd April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ashukem, Jean-Claude N.
• Is Part Of: Review of African political economy. Volume 47:Issue 164(2020)
• Page Start: 275
• Page End: 290
• Publication Date: 2020-04-02
• Subjects: Bio-economy -- Sustainable Development Goals -- land-grabbing -- land rights -- sub-Saharan Africa -- local communities; Bio-économie -- Objectifs de développement durable -- accaparement de terres -- Afrique sub-Saharienne -- communautés locales; Africa -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Africa -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; 330.96
• DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2019.1687086
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0305-6244

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article analyses the contributory role of the bio-economy and the UN General Assembly Sustainable Development Goals in facilitating and fostering land-grabbing in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that with the rapidly increasing demand for land and the use of agricultural produce for food and energy purposes, the bio-economy, together with the Sustainable Development Goals, has inexorably exacerbated the practice of land-grabbing in sub-Saharan Africa, where land is considered to be abundant, empty and unused. Sub-Saharan Africa has again been perceived primarily as a steady supplier of land for the production of food and non-food crops.