Using Crowdsourcing to Examine Land Acquisitions in Ethiopia

Autor(en)
Franziska Albrecht, Christoph Perger, Christian Schill, Linda See, Ian McCallum, Ruth Collins, Steffen Fritz
Abstrakt

Land grabbing is a global phenomenon that has radically increased since 2005. Global and national estimates are highly uncertain due to the rapid pace of acquisition and lack of transparency. Here we demonstrate that through the use of the Geo-Wiki crowdsourcing tool and volunteers, we can estimate areas of settlement and cultivation that are part of large-scale land transactions for known areas where land acquisitions have taken place as well as for Ethiopia as a whole.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
Externe Organisation(en)
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Université de Fribourg, American International School Vienna
Seiten
100
Anzahl der Seiten
104
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1553/giscience2013s100
Publikationsdatum
2013
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
507014 Regionalentwicklung
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/8120dacb-a24a-4385-b70d-44f20a0a2eef