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From Land to Water Grabbing: A Property Rights Perspective on Linked Natural Resources

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•We face a limited explanation how exactly LSLA affects the agricultural water users at local scale.•Water grabbing disregards local users' customary but also formally assigned bundles in property rights.•Systematizing how land acquisition can impact on property rights distribution in the agricultural water sector.•Eight analytical patterns – interlocks – from a property rights perspective.•Demonstration of a systematic comparison of cases, e.g. for Ethiopia and Tajikistan

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  • Theesfeld, Insa, 2018. "From Land to Water Grabbing: A Property Rights Perspective on Linked Natural Resources," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 154(C), pages 62-70.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolec:v:154:y:2018:i:c:p:62-70
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.07.019
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