land grabs
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Failed business or controlling resources?: agricultural land-based investments in Lao PDR
Vong Nanhthavong, CASAS’ member, has published this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies Abstract: Many land deals in the Global South are initiated and sustained, while others fail financially but maintain control over land and resources. These failed deals—and their implications for peasant well-being—remain undervalued in debates on the global land rush and land-grab…
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Resistance to extractivism: pin-prick land grabs and ‘failed’corporate land deals
Lorenza Arango, Sai Sam Khan, Doi Ra, Itayosara Rojas, Yunan Xu, CASAS’ members, have published an article in Third World Quarterly with Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Moges Belay, Jennifer C. Franco, Tsegaye Moreda & Chunyu Wang. Abstract: Resistance to extractivist land grabs is diverse in character and trajec-tory, at least those in Colombia, Ethiopia, Myanmar…