Flowers for food?: Scoping study on Dutch flower farms, land governance and local food security in Eastern Africa
The Netherlands is an important actor in the floriculture sector worldwide. Many Dutch flower companies have in recent years established businesses in the Global South as a result of favourable climatic conditions, available land and water resources, and the presence of cheap labour. With the aim to stimulate investments in developing countries (e.g., in the context of the Private Sector Investment programme) some companies were further incentivized by the Dutch government to start up their business through development-related subsidies or favourable loans. Justified by the perceived availabil... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Report |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
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University Utrecht
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Schlagwörter: | sustainable development / land grabbing / flowers / Africa / CSR / Food security |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28629235 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/328201 |