SOSC 3042 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Land Grabbing, Ecotourism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 3042
• Professor: Frehiwot Tesfaye

Document Summary

The drivers of global land grab and its effects in global south. Sosc 3042 business and social exclusion in the global south. Sept 27th: discuss the important ideas in terms of their contributions to our broader understanding of the global south and issues in business and social exclusion. Zoomers"s concern over the development of current global land grab" has raised attention of society. Many farmlands and real estate properties, foods and bio-fuels are outsourcing, trading or exporting for the interest of financial avenues or state development. There are substantial roles zoomers found have far- reaching effect to the topic of global land grab, the main drivers of land grab are food production, biofuel production, ecotourism, followed by sezs, tourism complexes, and finally the residential purposes. The second driver is biofuels and non-food agricultural commodities, in light of the non- renewable resources, financial corporations sees foreign farmland as a source of profit or capital.