Creating a public tool to assess and promote transparency in global land deals: The experience of the Land Matrix

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 521-530

  Anseeuw, Ward ^a   Lay, Jann ^b   Messerli, Peter ^c   Giger, Markus ^c   Taylor, Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b GIGA GERMAN INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL AND AREA STUDIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d International Land Coalition ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

land deals; Land Matrix; land observatory; open data; open development; transparency

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; DATA QUALITY; DATABASE; DECISION MAKING; LAND TENURE; PEASANT AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84880031427     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: 17439361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2013.803071     Document Type: Article

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