land grab
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‘Capital grabs back’: towards a global research agenda on the land grabbing-land reform/restitution nexus
CASAS’ members Enrique Castañón Ballivián, George Tonderai Mudimu & Mnqobi Ngubane have published with Melanie Sommerville in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: Capital is grabbing back land allocated through diverse national land reform and land restitution programmes globally. This article critically analyses this trend, which has so far received insufficient attention from land grab…
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Special Issue: New Insights on Land Grabs in the BRICS and Global South
Guested edited by Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Ben M. McKay and Juan Liu The conjunction of climate, food, and financial crises in the late 2000s triggered renewed interest in farmland and agribusiness investments around the world. This phenomenon became known as the “global land grab”, and sparked vibrant debates among social movements, NGOs, international…