The SDGs and the bio-economy: fostering land-grabbing in Africa

Jean-Claude N. Ashukem

Review of African Political Economy, 2020, vol. 47, issue 164, 275-290

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.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2019.1687086

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