News headlines have trumpeted announcements of big Chinese agricultural land grabs in Africa, which Beijing denies despite the Western media’s claims that it’s a growing problem.
The author of a recent paper on the issue is one of the very few non-Chinese experts who disagrees with the popular version, and defends there is no data to back up claims of a state-sanctioned land-grabbing policy by China in Africa.
Deborah Brautigam, professor of international development and comparative politics at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, has conducted an extensive review of media announcements about Chinese land acquisitions and investments approved by Beijing.
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Adva Saldinger is a Senior Reporter at Devex where she covers development finance, as well as U.S. foreign aid policy. Adva explores the role the private sector and private capital play in development and authors the weekly Devex Invested newsletter bringing the latest news on the role of business and finance in addressing global challenges. A journalist with more than 10 years of experience, she has worked at several newspapers in the U.S. and lived in both Ghana and South Africa.