Commercial Pressures on Land and Their Impact on Child Rights: A review of the literature
Innocenti Working Papers 2012-13
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Ketsela Moulat, Bethelhem;
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Brand-Weiner, Ian;
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Elezaj, Ereblina;
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Luzi, Lucia;
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Description
This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of the existing literature on the political economy of CPLs with the specific intention of mapping the relevant channels of impact on the rights and well-being of children living in rural areas where CPLs are fast-proliferating. Although there are some documented benefits, according to the large majority of the literature reviewed, the twin outcomes of displacement and dispossession are found to be critical negative socio-economic changes resulting from CPLs. In conjunction with a pervasive lack of transparency in the land transfer negotiation and implementation processes, the twin outcomes are in turn associated with a number of transmission channels that can impact the rights and well-being of children in affected rural communities.
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Thematic area
Child Work and Labour /
Children's Participation /
Conflict and Displacement /
Governance /
Migration /
Thesaurus
business economics /
displaced children
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equal access
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land acquisition /
land speculation /
marginality /