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Food Security & Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: The Cases of Tanzania and Ethiopia

Dye, Jennifer

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2015, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Political Science.
Food security is often misunderstood: overlooked in security studies and essentialized as a biological and nutritional issue, or as simply supply not matching demand. Yet, food security rests on underlying social and political questions of power, entitlement, distribution, and access within the food system and land tenure. This dissertation seeks to unearth these underlying social and political questions by examining how external large-scale land acquisitions affect food security and land tenure in the developing African state. This dissertation argues that external large-scale land acquisitions have a primarily negative impact on both food security and land tenure. Findings from the cases of Tanzania and Ethiopia show that large-scale land acquisitions maintain a system of social, political, and economic entitlements that foster uneven structures that result in low levels of food security and access to land.
Laura Jenkins, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Dinshaw Mistry, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Adrian Parr, Ph.D. M.A. (Committee Member)
271 p.

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  • Dye, J. (2015). Food Security & Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: The Cases of Tanzania and Ethiopia [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427980600

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Dye, Jennifer. Food Security & Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: The Cases of Tanzania and Ethiopia. 2015. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427980600.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Dye, Jennifer. "Food Security & Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: The Cases of Tanzania and Ethiopia." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427980600

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)