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Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions 'from Below'

Author : Marc Edelman,Ruth Hall,Saturnino M. Borras Jr.,Ian Scoones,Ben White,Wendy Wolford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351622400

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Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions 'from Below' by Marc Edelman,Ruth Hall,Saturnino M. Borras Jr.,Ian Scoones,Ben White,Wendy Wolford Pdf

When the 2007-2008 food and financial crises triggered a global wave of land grabbing, scholars, activists and policy practitioners assumed that this would be met with massive peasant resistance. As empirical evidence accumulated, however, it became clear that political reactions ‘from below’ to land grabbing were quite varied and complex. Violent resistance, outright expulsions, everyday ‘weapons of the weak’ and demands for better terms of incorporation into land deals were among the outcomes that emerged. Readers of this collection will encounter a multinational group of scholars who use the tools of social movements theory and critical agrarian studies to examine cases from Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Uganda, Mali, Ukraine, India, and Laos, as well as the Rio +20 Sustainable Development Conference. Initiatives ‘from below’ in response to land deals have involved local and transnational alliances and the use of legal and extra-legal methods, and have brought victories and defeats. This book was first published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.

Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions 'from Below'

Author : Marc Edelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : 1315112566

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"When the 2007-2008 food and financial crises triggered a global wave of land grabbing, scholars, activists and policy practitioners assumed that this would be met with massive peasant resistance. As empirical evidence accumulated, however, it became clear that political reactions 'from below' to land grabbing were quite varied and complex. Violent resistance, outright expulsions, everyday 'weapons of the weak' and demands for better terms of incorporation into land deals were among the outcomes that emerged. Readers of this collection will encounter a multinational group of scholars who use the tools of social movements theory and critical agrarian studies to examine cases from Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Uganda, Mali, Ukraine, India, and Laos, as well as the Rio +20 Sustainable Development Conference. Initiatives 'from below' in response to land deals have involved local and transnational alliances and the use of legal and extra-legal methods, and have brought victories and defeats. This book was first published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies."--Provided by publisher.

Global Land Grabs

Author : Marc Edelman,Carlos Oya,Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317569503

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Global Land Grabs by Marc Edelman,Carlos Oya,Saturnino M. Borras Jr. Pdf

Since the 2008 world food crisis a surge of land grabbing swept Africa, Asia and Latin America and even some regions of Europe and North America. Investors have uprooted rural communities for massive agricultural, biofuels, mining, industrial and urbanisation projects. ‘Water grabbing’ and ‘green grabbing’ have further exacerbated social tensions. Early analyses of land grabbing focused on foreign actors, the biofuels boom and Africa, and pointed to catastrophic consequences for the rural poor. Subsequently scholars carried out local case studies in diverse world regions. The contributors to this volume advance the discussion to a new stage, critically scrutinizing alarmist claims of the first wave of research, probing the historical antecedents of today’s land grabbing, examining large-scale land acquisitions in light of international human rights and investment law, and considering anew longstanding questions in agrarian political economy about forms of dispossession and accumulation and grassroots resistance. Readers of this collection will learn about the impacts of land and water grabbing; the relevance of key theorists, including Marx, Polanyi and Harvey; the realities of China’s involvement in Africa; how contemporary land grabbing differs from earlier plantation agriculture; and how social movements—and rural people in general—are responding to this new threat. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Global Land Grabs

Author : Marc Edelman,Carlos Oya,Saturnino M. Borras Jr.,Saturnino M. Borras
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138691305

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Global Land Grabs by Marc Edelman,Carlos Oya,Saturnino M. Borras Jr.,Saturnino M. Borras Pdf

The essays in Global Land Grabs take the debate over land grabbing to a new stage, scrutinizing claims of earlier research, probing historical antecedents of today's land grabbing, examining large-scale land acquisitions in light of international human rights and investment law, and considering anew longstanding questions in agrarian political economy about forms of dispossession and accumulation and grassroots resistance. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Governing Global Land Deals

Author : Wendy Wolford,Saturnino M. Borras, Jr.,Ruth Hall,Ian Scoones,Ben White
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781118688243

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Governing Global Land Deals by Wendy Wolford,Saturnino M. Borras, Jr.,Ruth Hall,Ian Scoones,Ben White Pdf

This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance. Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship between large-scale land deals and processes of governance Offers new theoretical insights into the different forms and effects of global land acquisitions Illuminates both the micro-processes of transaction and expropriation, as well as the broader structural forces at play in global land deals Provides new empirical data on the different actors involved in contemporary land deals occurring across the globe and focuses on the specific institutional, political, and economic contexts in which they are acting

Industrial Tree Plantations and the Land Rush in China

Author : Yunan Xu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000042252

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Industrial Tree Plantations and the Land Rush in China by Yunan Xu Pdf

This book analyses the political and economic causes, mechanisms and impacts of the industrial tree plantation boom in China. In the past two decades, the industrial tree plantation sector has been expanding rapidly in China, especially in Guangxi Province. Based on extensive primary data, this book concentrates on the political economy of the sector’s expansion with a focus on the recent and dramatic agrarian transformation involving the land-labour nexus, the impact on villagers’ livelihoods, the role of the state, and political reactions from below. The book questions the stereotypical portrayal of local communities as the excluded villager. Instead, it demonstrates that this is a much more complex issue with varying levels of passive and active forms of inclusion and exclusion within local communities. While most literature focuses on crop booms for food and biofuel production the industrial plantation sector has largely been overlooked, despite it being one of the biggest sectors in the current rush for land. Filling this lacuna, this book also reveals that while China has traditionally been painted as a major land grabber and consumer of crop booms it is also a destination of foreign investment. In doing so the book highlights how large-scale foreign land deals can also take place in traditional ‘grabber’ countries like China which feeds into the wider debates about global land politics and resource grabbing. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of land grabbing, rural development and agrarian transformations, as well as Chinese development.

Africa's Land Rush

Author : Ruth Hall,Ian Scoones,Dzodzi Tsikata
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847011305

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Africa's Land Rush by Ruth Hall,Ian Scoones,Dzodzi Tsikata Pdf

Interrogates the narratives of land grabbing and agricultural investment through detailed local studies that illuminate how these are experienced on the ground and the implications for Africa's land and agricultural economy.

Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies

Author : Akram-Lodhi, A. H.,Dietz, Kristina,Engels, Bettina,McKay, Ben M.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788972468

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Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies by Akram-Lodhi, A. H.,Dietz, Kristina,Engels, Bettina,McKay, Ben M. Pdf

Exploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation.

Land Grabbing and Global Governance

Author : Matias E. Margulis,Nora McKeon,Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134952168

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Land Grabbing and Global Governance by Matias E. Margulis,Nora McKeon,Saturnino M. Borras Jr. Pdf

Land grabbing per se is not a new phenomenon, given its historical precedents in the eras of imperialism. However, the character, scale, pace, orientation and key drivers of the recent wave of land grabs is a distinct historical event closely tied to the changing dynamics of the global agri-food, feed and fuel complex. Land grabbing is facilitated by ever greater flows of capital, goods, and ideas across borders, and these flows occur through axes of power that are far more polycentric than the North-South imperialist tradition. Land grabs occur in the context of changes in the character of the global food regime, formerly anchored by North Atlantic empires; the integrated food-energy complex seems to be headed towards multiple centres of power, especially with the rise of the BRICS and the proliferation of middle income countries participating in many of the land transactions. Land Grabbing and Global Governance offers insights from leading scholars and experts on contemporary land grabs. This volume examines land grabs in direct relation to a global economy undergoing profound change and the role of new configurations of actors and power in governance institutions and practices. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

What Drives the Global Land Rush?

Author : Mr.Rabah Arezki,Mr.Klaus W. Deininger,Mr.Harris Selod
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781463923334

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What Drives the Global Land Rush? by Mr.Rabah Arezki,Mr.Klaus W. Deininger,Mr.Harris Selod Pdf

This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as well as indicators of land rights security. Results confirm the central role of agro-ecological potential as a pull factor. In contrast to the literature on foreign investment in general, the quality of the business climate is insignificant whereas weak land governance and tenure security for current users make countries more attractive for investors. Implications for policy are discussed.

Large-Scale Land Acquisitions

Author : Christophe Gironde,Christophe Golay,Peter Messerli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004304758

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Large-Scale Land Acquisitions by Christophe Gironde,Christophe Golay,Peter Messerli Pdf

Large-scale land acquisitions, or ‘land grabbing’, has become a key research topic among scholars interested in agrarian change, development, and the environment. The term ‘land acquisitions’ refers to a highly contested process in terms of governance and impacts on livelihoods and human rights. This book focuses on South-East Asia. A series of thematic and in-depth case studies put ‘land grabbing’ into specific historical and institutional contexts. The volume also offers a human rights analysis of the phenomenon, examining the potential and limits of human rights mechanisms aimed at preventing and mitigating land grabs' negative consequences. Contributors include: Maria Lisa Alano, Ioana Cismas, Olivier De Schutter, Michael Dwyer, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, Andreas Heinimann, Martin Keulertz, Marcel Mazoyer, Peter Messerli, Hafiz Mirza, Vong Nanhthavong, Gerben Nooteboom, Patricia Paramita, Amaury Peeters, Emily Polack, Laurence Roudart, Oliver Schoenweger, Gilda Senties, Sokbunthoeun So, Mohamad Shohibuddin, William Speller, Eckart Woertz, and James Zhan.

The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals

Author : Ben White,Saturnino Borras Jr.,Ruth Hall,Ian Scoones,Wendy Wolford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317976851

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The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals by Ben White,Saturnino Borras Jr.,Ruth Hall,Ian Scoones,Wendy Wolford Pdf

This collection explores the complex dynamics of corporate land deals from a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on the implications for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation. This involves looking at ways in which existing patterns of rural social differentiation – in terms of class, gender, ethnicity and generation – are being shaped by changes in land use and property relations, as well as by the re-organization of production and exchange as rural communities and resources are incorporated into global commodity chains. It goes further than the descriptive ‘what’ and ‘who’ questions, in order to understand the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of these patterns. It is empirically solid and theoretically sophisticated, making it a robust and boundary-changing work. Contributors come from various scholarly disciplines. Covering nearly all regions of the world, the collection will be of interest to researchers from various disciplines, policymakers and activists. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements

Author : Marc Edelman,Saturnino M. Borras
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : 1552668177

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Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements by Marc Edelman,Saturnino M. Borras Pdf

"The prayers of those of us who have long hungered for a comprehensive, historically deep, learned and accessible account of international agrarian movements have finally been answered in full. We will long be in debt to Edelman and Borras for this exceptional and lasting contribution to agrarian scholarship." - James C. Scott, founding Director, Yale University Agrarian Studies Program, author of The Art of Not Being Governed

Global Land Grabs

Author : Marc Edelman,Carlos Oya,Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317569510

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Global Land Grabs by Marc Edelman,Carlos Oya,Saturnino M. Borras Jr. Pdf

Since the 2008 world food crisis a surge of land grabbing swept Africa, Asia and Latin America and even some regions of Europe and North America. Investors have uprooted rural communities for massive agricultural, biofuels, mining, industrial and urbanisation projects. ‘Water grabbing’ and ‘green grabbing’ have further exacerbated social tensions. Early analyses of land grabbing focused on foreign actors, the biofuels boom and Africa, and pointed to catastrophic consequences for the rural poor. Subsequently scholars carried out local case studies in diverse world regions. The contributors to this volume advance the discussion to a new stage, critically scrutinizing alarmist claims of the first wave of research, probing the historical antecedents of today’s land grabbing, examining large-scale land acquisitions in light of international human rights and investment law, and considering anew longstanding questions in agrarian political economy about forms of dispossession and accumulation and grassroots resistance. Readers of this collection will learn about the impacts of land and water grabbing; the relevance of key theorists, including Marx, Polanyi and Harvey; the realities of China’s involvement in Africa; how contemporary land grabbing differs from earlier plantation agriculture; and how social movements—and rural people in general—are responding to this new threat. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

The Global Political Economy of Israel

Author : Jonathan Nitzan,Shimshon Bichler
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0745316751

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The Global Political Economy of Israel by Jonathan Nitzan,Shimshon Bichler Pdf

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