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1. Introduction
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1.1 Research question and scope of the study
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1.2 Research program and findings
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1.3 Contributions to academic literature and policy debates
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1.4 Outline of chapters
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2. Large-scale land deals: overview and debates
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2.1 Foreign large-scale land deals in developing countries – an overview
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2.1.1 Global trends
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2.1.2 Drivers
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2.1.3 Consequences
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2.2 Global responses to foreign large-scale land deals
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2.2.1 Human rights versus market-based approaches towards large-scale land deals
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2.2.2 International instruments for regulating large-scale land deals
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2.2.3 Gaps in international regulation and the question of a right to land
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2.3 Debate: How does the law help?
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2.3.1 Theoretical arguments
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2.3.2 Existing empirical research
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3. A multi-perspective framework on legal mobilization success
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3.1 Metatheoretical considerations
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3.1.1 Bounded rationality
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3.1.2 Configurational thinking
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3.2 A bargaining lens towards company-community relations
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3.2.1 Background: bargaining theory
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3.2.2 Local actors – TNC relationship: an interactive bargaining process
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3.3 Three theoretical perspectives
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3.3.1 Legal perspective
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3.3.2 Social mobilization perspective
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3.3.3 Business management perspective
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3.4 Explaining legal mobilization success
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3.4.1 Bringing the three perspectives together
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3.4.2 Conceptualization of core conditions
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3.5 Summary of the framework
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4. Research design
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4.1 Methods
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4.1.1 Evaluating the national legal opportunity structure
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4.1.2 Causal process tracing
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4.1.3 Case comparison
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4.2 Case selection
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4.2.1 Choosing case countries
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4.2.2 Choosing cases of large-scale land deals
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4.3 Empirical material
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4.3.1 Field visits and interviews
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4.3.2 NGO reports, media articles and additional documents
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4.4 Course of action of the analysis
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5. Analysis I Sierra Leone
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5.1 Large-scale land deals in Sierra Leone
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5.1.1 Current trends and agricultural background
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5.1.2 Government policies to attract foreign investment in agriculture
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5.1.3 Civil society responses and network formation
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5.2 National legal opportunity structure in Sierra Leone
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5.2.1 Existing land tenure system and central laws
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5.2.2 Regulations regarding foreign land investments and grievance mechanisms
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5.2.3 Evaluating the national legal opportunity structure
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5.3 Case I: Addax Bioenergy – success through legal representation
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5.3.1 Overview of the investment of Addax Bioengery
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5.3.2 Legal representation for the village of Masethleh
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5.3.3 The Addax project: a poster child for responsible investment
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5.3.4 The support network: SiLNoRF and Namati
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5.3.5 Discussion and additional issues
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5.4 Case II: Socfin Sierra Leone – unsuccessful legal mobilization
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5.4.1 Overview of the investment of Socfin Agricultural Company
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5.4.2 Calling on Sierra Leonean legal institutions – whose side is the law on?
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5.4.3 Socfin, the chiefdom authorities and the Sierra Leonean state
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5.4.4 The support network: Green Scenery and FIAN Belgium
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5.4.5 Discussion and additional issues
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5.5 Within country comparison and discussion of findings
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5.5.1 Comparison between the cases of Addax Bioenergy and Socfin Sierra Leone
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5.5.2 Summary of findings from Sierra Leone
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6. Analysis II Philippines
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6.1 Large-scale land deals in the Philippines
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6.1.1 Current trends and agricultural background
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6.1.2 Government policies to attract foreign investment in agriculture
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6.1.3 Civil society networks
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6.2 National legal opportunity structure in the Philippines
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6.2.1 National land laws and tenure system
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6.2.2 Rules and regulations regarding foreign large-scale land deals
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6.2.3 Evaluating the national legal opportunity structure
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6.3 Case III: Green Future Innovations – success through combining strategies
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6.3.1 Overview of the investment of Green Future Innovations Inc.
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6.3.2 Escalating mobilization efforts from below and above
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6.3.3 The company: complications of a joint venture business
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6.3.4 Support network: the radical left
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6.3.5 Discussion and additional issues
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6.4 Case IV: Agumil Philippines: Uninformed consent and the difficult struggle of local cooperatives
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6.4.1 Overview of the investment of Agumil Philippines, Inc.
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6.4.2 The failure of institutional mechanisms and subsequent legal mobilization attempts by cooperatives
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6.4.3 Agumil and the Land Bank
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6.4.4 Fragmented support and missing internal mobilization
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6.4.5 Discussion and additional issues
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6.5 Within country comparison and discussion
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6.5.1 Comparison of Green Future Innovations and Agumil
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6.5.3 Summary of findings from the Philippines
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7. Discussion
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7.1 Comparing Sierra Leone and the Philippines
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7.2 An extended framework of legal mobilization success in large-scale land deals
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8. Conclusion
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8.1 Summary
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8.2 Limitations and future research desiderata
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8.3 Implications of my findings for regulating large-scale land deals
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Appendix: list of interviews
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Publication bibliography
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1. Introduction
Autoren
Annette Schramm
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doi.org/10.5771/9783748907602-17
ISBN print: 978-3-8487-6703-8
ISBN online: 978-3-7489-0760-2
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