Beyond the Global Land Grab: New Directions for Research on Land Struggles and Global Agrarian Change

ISBN-13: 9781032112145 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 182 str.

Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira; Juan Liu; Ben M. McKay

Opis

This edited volume proposes new directions to deepen and even transform the research agenda on land struggles and agro-industrial restructuring around the world.

Spis treści

1. Beyond land grabs: new insights on land struggles and global agrarian change 2. Land grabs, farmworkers, and rural livelihoods in West Africa: some silences in the food sovereignty discourse 3. Bitter sugarification: sugar frontier and contract farming in Uganda 4. Access to land and the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil in Colombia 5. Landed value grabbing in the terroir of post-socialist specialty wine 6. Expulsion by pollution: the political economy of land grab for industrial parks in rural China 7. Grounding Chinese investment: encounters between Chinese capital and local land politics in Laos 8. Shared interest or strategic threat? A critical investigation of political debates and regulatory responses to Chinese agricultural investment in Australia 9. Unpacking the finance-farmland nexus: circles of cooperation and intermediaries in Brazil 10. Network companies, land grabbing, and financialization in South America