land grabbing
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The Political Economy of Land Grabbing and Deforestation in Times of Peace and War: Lessons from the Colombian Amazon (2016–2024)
CASAS’ member Sammy Sánchez Garavito has published this article in Spanish with Sebastián Gómez Zúñiga, Daniela Mosquera-Camacho & Daniel Ortiz Gallego in the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Abstract: This article analyzes land grabbing and deforestation in the Colombian Amazon from a political economy perspective, focusing on the changes that occurred after…
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The spectacular global land rush: its character, extent and consequences
CASAS’ member Yunan Xu has published with Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco & Tsegaye Moreda this article in the journal Globalizations. Abstract: The spectacular land rush is over, but land grabbing continues. It is likely to gain greater momentum in the near future. In this paper, we caution against conflating several key terms…
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Rethinking land grabbing: a focus on land Pawning in rural Malawi
CASAS’ member Loveness Msofi Mgalamadzi has published this article with Masautso Chimombo in Cogent Social Sciences journal. Abstract: Land pawning, is a relatively understudied practice in Malawi’s agrarian landscape and broader land scholarship. Our research contextualizes this practice within debates of domestic and global land grabbing. Focussing on smallholder farmers, we analysed how land pawning…
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Failed land deals and the invisibilization of land grabbing in Mozambique
CASAS’ members Natacha Bruna & Yunan Xu have published with Saturnino Borras Jr. this article in Globalizations. Abstract: This paper argues that failed land deals are a key piece of the puzzle about global land grabbing. Co-constitutive of operational land deals, failed land deals profoundly impact social relations in affected communities and ecology, which are…