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In recent decades a substantial shift in landownership has taken place in rural America as millions of acres of land have come under the ownership and control of various financial institutions. This article outlines a political economic... more
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      FinancializationLand Grabs
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      Real EstateAccumulation by DispossessionLand RightsIndian economy
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      AgribusinessAgricultureNeoliberalismFood Security
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      Development StudiesPovertyAgrarian ChangeMozambique
This study examines the ongoing creation of the Dholera Special Investment Region along the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor in Gujarat. It analyses the agrarian political economy of the region in relation to the anticipated rentier gains... more
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      South Asian StudiesInfrastructure PlanningSouth AsiaIndian Law
Drawing on Marx’s approach to original accumulation at the dawn of capitalism, I characterize the waves of parliamentary enclosures that unfolded in England between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries as an exercise of original or... more
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      Critical TheoryHistorical GeographyUrban GeographyUrbanization in Developing Areas
Taking possession of private land for public purpose by the eminent domain of the state is a global phenomenon but it dispossesses the people at the local level. The researchers have mainly dealt with this phenomenon either from the field... more
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      HistorySociologyAnthropologyEthnography
The Waterberg is punted as South Africa’s next coal frontier by industry and government. It has already seen two rounds of boom and bust driven by mega projects. The first was in the 1980s when the original Grootegeluk mine and the... more
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      Political EcologyEnvironmental JusticeActivismCoal Mining
This article lays the groundwork for a Marxist theory of the international law of land grabbing. It argues that any comprehensive politico-economic analysis of land grabbing must also be a politico-economic analysis of the law of land... more
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      MarxismInternational LawHuman RightsPeasant Studies
In this chapter, I describe the adoption of a liberalised economy for the investment of private capital in West Bengal. Paradoxically, implementation of the liberalisation policy rested on a colonial and/ or post-independence state... more
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      AnthropologySocial AnthropologyDevelopment StudiesPublic Policy Development
Policy paper for ActionAid on four key steps to prevent land grabs worldwide.
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      Land GrabbingLand Grabs
This paper focuses on one community in Cambodia that won back land from a large land deal by grabbing onto the rupture in property relations initiated by a one-year land titling campaign. I document the struggle between competing... more
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      PropertyAgrarian ChangeCambodiaJustifications and Excuses
The renewed interest in land, especially after the 2007-2008 global financial crises, has led to land being viewed as a new strategic asset. The drivers of this rush, sometimes referred to as 'land grabs', are contested, as are its actors... more
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      Social Research Methods and MethodologyAfricaEvidenceSenegal
In the absence of an easily available source of reliable up-to-date data on foreign land deals in Tanzania, many reports have been published that attempt to provide an overview of these deals. While providing this overview is challenging... more
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      TanzaniaLand GrabbingIllegal land invasions and land grabsLand Grabs
The report synthesizes the existing data on large acquisition of forest land rights through timber concessions in developing forested countries, using the information from Rights and Resources... more
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      Indigenous Land RightsLand RightsCommunity ForestryLand Grabs
En las pasadas tres décadas, la Península de Yucatán (PY) ha experimentado trasformaciones territoriales sustanciales relacionadas a la propiedad social. Desde las modificaciones a la Ley Agraria en 1992 y hasta mayo del 2019, en... more
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      Yucatan PeninsulaLand GrabsAcumulación Por DesposesiónEjidos y comunidades en México
The concepts of degraded forest (pa mai xout xom) and degraded land (din seuam xom) have been variously applied in official Lao government policy narratives and law over the last couple of decades. In this article I focus on the concepts... more
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      Laos (Lao PDR)Lao PDRLAOSPlantations
In this unfinished rough powerpoint for a series of lectures I explore why the United States is markedly different from other representative democracies and welfare states. I trace the tradition of using a combination of bribery and... more
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      Black Studies Or African American StudiesChicano StudiesLabor EconomicsIndigenous Studies
Since the early 2000s the Lao government has dramatically increased the number of large-scale land concessions issued for agribusinesses. While studies have documented the social and environmental impacts of land dispossession, the role... more
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      Laos (Lao PDR)Labor MigrationMigration StudiesWork and Labour
A report for Friends of the Earth UK on global land grabs and UK-listed pension and investment funds. With examples involving Sime Darby in Liberia, Wilmar in West Kalimantan in Indonesia, Bunge in Mato Grosso, Glencore in Colombia and... more
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      Land GrabbingIllegal land invasions and land grabsLand GrabsStrategy to Counter Land Grabbing
The debate between the suitability of smallholder farms against large-scale agribusiness is today leading to polemic policy choices that influence millions of lives in the developing world. Directly related to this issue is the current... more
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      ColombiaCollective ActionLand Grabs
Land pooling is being increasingly promoted as a mechanism for land consolidation, especially for greenfield urbanisation projects. In Dholera smart city along the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor, the mechanism is enabled under the the... more
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      Environmental LawIndian studiesSouth Asian StudiesLegal History
In this article, we analyze a central aspect of Mercosur’s agriculture financialization: the entrance of risk capital in this economic sector. Among the main actors in this process, we can find private equity firms and the agribusiness... more
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      Corporate FinanceArgentinaBrazilFinancialization
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      Agricultural EngineeringRural SociologyDevelopment EconomicsAgronomy
South African corporate agribusiness and large-scale commercial farmers have been major players in the current acquisitions of large tracts of very fertile land in southern and eastern Africa through massive investments in large-scale... more
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      Agrarian ChangeContract farming & Governance and public policyLand GrabsBRICS Africa Relations
We examine what we argue has been overlooked in the Cambodian context: the roles and practices of women in relation to men and their complementary struggles to protest land grabbing and eviction, and subsequently rebuild community and... more
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      Southeast Asian StudiesPolitical EcologyGender and EnvironmentCambodia
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      Socio-legal studiesIndian LawEminent DomainLand Rights
The Special Issue focuses on the recent wave of foreign acquisitions of land in developing countries and provides. This essay article reviews the debate, providing an overview of the extent, patterns and origin of investments, and... more
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      EconomicsDevelopment EconomicsPolitical EconomyDevelopment Studies
This unpublished PhD thesis deals with the various dimensions of development caused displacement in West Bengal under the Left Front Government. The main theme centers round land acquisition by the government for industrial projects and... more
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      AnthropologySocial SciencesLand and Property DevelopmentSocial and Cultural Anthropology
Land grabbing has emerged as a significant issue in contemporary global governance that cuts across the fields of development, investment, food security, among others. Whereas land grabbing per se is not a new phenomenon, having... more
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      Global GovernanceFood and NutritionThe Global Political EconomyBiofuels
Whether land transactions can benefit the local population depends on the governance system, the so‐called rules of the game and their enforcement. As investors often face a weak institutional environment in target countries, outcomes for... more
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      Land tenureGhanaFood SecurityPalm Oil Plantation
La complejidad de los procesos asociados a la expansión del agronegocio requiere de análisis circunstanciados. Aquí abordamos los cambios en la tenencia de la tierra y sus impactos en términos de diferenciación agraria en el norte de... more
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      Agriculture and Food StudiesLand Use ChangeLand GrabbingAgronegocios
This study examines the local processes, effects, and responses to large-scale logging and agricultural development efforts in subsistence communities on New Hanover Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Recently, New Hanover became the site of... more
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      AgricultureDispossessionLoggingLand Grabs
Certification initiatives are an increasingly prominent means of quelling public concern about the wider socio‐political, economic and environmental consequences of commodity production (timber, palm oil, soy) on increasingly concentrated... more
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      Land tenureParaguayFood SecurityLand Grabbing
In West Africa, domestic investors acquire plots of farm land using their connections, powers and resources. Some policy makers view these investments as a shift towards agribusiness and state that these “new actors ” will modernise and... more
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      Land tenureNigerMaliBenin
As transnational movements contest economic inequalities and demand inclusion into global decision‐making processes, new models of collaborative governance have proliferated. Promoters of this new mode of governance suggest that it can... more
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      SociologyCriminologySocial MovementsLaw
The term “ocean grabbing” has been used to describe actions, policies or initiatives that deprive small-scale fishers of resources, dispossess vulnerable populations of coastal lands, and/or undermine historical access to areas of the... more
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      Political Geography and GeopoliticsCritical GeopoliticsHuman RightsGeopolitics
This article focuses on two issues. First, it critically engages with the emerging global databases on large-scale land deals and the ‘data’ on global trends so far circulated, paying special attention to their accuracy and reliability,... more
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      Development StudiesEvidenceMethodsLand Grabs
In 2005, Guatemalan community forest concessionaires achieved a remarkable legislative victory that reversed a green land grab in the Maya Biosphere. The fight over this space, the Mirador Basin, provides valuable contributions to... more
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      GuatemalaCommunity ForestryLand DispossessionLand Grabs
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      Political MobilizationLand Grabs
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      Land tenureJordanSudanFood Security
Large-scale plantation land concessions are causing an array of serious social and environmental impacts in Southeast Asia as well as in other parts of the world. This paper, however , is focused on the many challenges and limitations... more
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      CambodiaLaos (Lao PDR)Plantation CropsLAOS
This article explores the question of political struggles for inclusion on an oil palm land deal in Ghana. It examines the employment dynamics and the everyday politics of rural wage workers on a transnational oil palm plantation which is... more
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      Work and LabourFood SovereigntyPlantationsLand Grabs
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      South Asian StudiesInfrastructure PlanningSocio-legal studiesIndian Law
Mainstream discourses tend to treat land dispossession as a ‘developing’ country problem that arises due to weak/corrupt legal systems and inadequate property institutions. This article unsettles such discourses by examining... more
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      Property RightsLand GrabbingExpropriation of landLand Dispossession
In this article, I argue for a critical recognition of the law of the sea, as it developed from the post-war period, as fostering a ‘grab’ of the ocean floor via national jurisdiction and international administration. I discuss why we... more
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      Political EconomyDeep sea ecologyHistory and Theory of International LawExtractive industries
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The state gives as a right what the mafia offers as a gift: reverse land enclosures in Sicily Theodoros Rakopoulos, university of Bergen This paper, drawing from a Sicilian example, explores the problematics of what are claimed and... more
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      MafiaAnthropology of LandscapesLand GrabsEnclosures
This paper first explores the question of what might ‘land grabs’ be in Zambia, from the perspective of two important accusations of ‘land grabs’ in Zambia. It then more closely explores the discourses employed Chayton, before proceeding... more
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      Land tenureZambiaFood SecurityLand Grabbing