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...

The Global Political Economy of Raul Prebisch offers an original analysis of global political economy by examining it through the ideas, agency and influence of one of its most important thinkers, leaders and personalities. Prebisch s ground-breaking ideas as an economist the terms of trade thesis and economic case for state-led industrialization changed the world and guided economic policy across the global South. As the head of two UN bodies the Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean (ECLAC) and later the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)...