Lorenzo Cotula

5.5k citations
73 papers · 3.4k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 21
Topics
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (26 papers)Land Rights and Reforms (22 papers)International Arbitration and Investment Law (17 papers)

In The Last Decade

Lorenzo Cotula

67 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers

Lorenzo Cotula
Comparison fields: 5 of 94
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2.1k
  • Soil Science 1.5k
  • Global and Planetary Change 686
  • Sociology and Political Science 623
  • Economics and Econometrics 281
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Fields of papers citing papers by Lorenzo Cotula

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All Works

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Between Hope and Critique: Human Rights, Social Justice and Re-Imagining International Law from the Bottom Up
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Land investments, accountability and the law : lessons from West Africa
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Developing tools to secure land rights in West Africa: a 'bottom up' approach.
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Alternatives to land acquisitions: agricultural investment and collaborative business models. Highlights from an international lesson-sharing workshop, Maputo, 17th-18th March 2010.
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International Law and Negotiating Power in Foreign Investment Projects: Comparing Property Rights Protection Under Human Rights and Investment Law in Africa
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Genero y legislacion. Los derechos de la mujer en la agricultura
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About Lorenzo Cotula

Lorenzo Cotula is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science and Strategy and Management, having authored 73 papers that have together received 3.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (26 papers), Land Rights and Reforms (22 papers) and International Arbitration and Investment Law (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (2.1k citations), Soil Science (1.5k citations) and Business and International Management (124 citations). Lorenzo Cotula has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Chile. Frequent co-authors include Sonja Vermeulen, James F. Keeley, S. Vermeulen, Camilla Toulmin, Ced Hesse, Liz Alden Wily, Ward Anseeuw, Michael Taylor, James Mayers and Laura German. Their work appears in journals such as World Development, International Affairs and The Journal of Development Studies.

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