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Using Crowdsourcing to Examine Land Acquisitions in Ethiopia

    Franziska Albrecht, Christoph Perger, Christian Schill, Linda See, Ian McCallum, Ruth Collins, Steffen Fritz

GI_Forum 2013, Volume 1, pp. 100-104, 2013/06/20

Creating the GISociety – Conference Proceedings

doi: 10.1553/giscience2013s100


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doi:10.1553/giscience2013s100


Abstract

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.