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	<title>The Journal of Humanitarian Assistance &#187; land acquisitions</title>
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		<title>Food Security or Food Sovereignty: The Case of Land Grabs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonelle  Lonergan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Logan Cochrane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethiopia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food sovereignty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land acquisitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land grabbing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The unprecedented acquisition of land by transnational companies in  areas of chronic food insecurity requires a paradigm  shift from food security to food sovereignty. Export-based commercial  farming operations in these regions are negatively impacting both the  well-being of people and the environment. An Ethiopian case study  demonstrates how food insecurity has increased as  smallholder farmers are displaced and uncompensated, not only affecting  household food security but also livelihoods. Adopting food sovereignty  as a thematic construct to reevaluate the system facilitates some  unique approaches to food insecurity, such as  a focus on land reform, local sustainability and local ownership, and  highlights continued calls for reformation in governance, regulation of  land grabbing and environmental protection.]]></description>
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