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Land grabbing or value grabbing? Land rent and wind energy in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca

Competition & Change, 2021
The Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca is the first region in Mexico with a large-scale wind energy development. The region holds 60% of the country’s installed capacity, but the new infrastructure has faced opposition from sectors of the local population ...
Lourdes Alonso Serna
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Claiming their right to possess: the Guich Oudaya tribe’s resistance to land grabbing

Journal of North African Studies, 2022
In February 2014, at the heart of an upscale neighborhood in Rabat, police forces forcefully destroyed the homes of Douar Ouled Dlim’s inhabitants – descendants of the Guich Oudaya tribe. Refusing to leave their land, the inhabitants have since continued
S. Kahlaoui
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Land grabbing, power configurations and trajectories of China’s investments in Argentina

Globalizations, 2021
This paper analyses the display of the power relations involved in the trajectory of China’s land grabbing in Argentina. Through a study of the failed agri-food project of Beidahuang Group in Rio Negro, it shows the centrality of the dynamic ...
S. Mora
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Coalitions for land grabbing in wartime: state, paramilitaries and elites in Colombia

, 2021
This analysis considers two contrasting trajectories of coercive and illegal land accumulation across two northern Colombian municipalities in wartime.
Jenniffer Vargas Reina
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Wind, coal, and copper: the politics of land grabbing, counterinsurgency, and the social engineering of extraction

Globalizations, 2020
The multiplicity of violent techniques employed to impose land control and extraction remains under acknowledged. This article reviews research conducted between the years 2014 and 2018 and draws on three case studies: wind energy development in Mexico ...
A. Dunlap
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Unfolding the Enigma of Dispossession in India: An Analysis of the Discourse on Land Grabbing

, 2021
A discourse analysis of land grabbing literature, in general, reveals that it is dominated by the political economy approach, and that dispossession remains a governing theme. But dispossession due to land grabbing in India is not that simple.
K. Jahnavi, S. Satpathy
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Seven reasons why climate-induced land grabbing requires significant changes in land governance

Journal of Peasant Studies
Two decades after the start of the debate on land grabbing, scholarly and policy attention is shifting from ‘how to stop land grabbing’ to ‘how to use land to combat climate change’.
A. Zoomers, Kei Otsuki
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Land-grabbing mafias and dispossession in the Brazilian Amazon: rural–urban land speculation and deforestation in the Santarém region

Globalizations
This article explores the ways that illegal land grabbing has taken place in contemporary Brazil since 2003. The findings suggest that much more attention needs to be paid to the various forms of violent illegalities behind the creation of land control ...
M. Kröger
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State and local authorities in land grabbing in Rwanda: governmentality and capitalist accumulation

Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 2020
Since the early 2000s, Rwanda has implemented a comprehensive agrarian reform that makes large areas of land available to local cooperatives and foreign enterprises for investment.
Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka, An Ansoms
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Grabbing land in Malawi

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
The distribution of land in Malawi is highly unequal and frequently inefficient. Large areas of land are underutilized in a context where many Malawian farmers would be able to put such land to productive use. In this context, the Malawian government has been slow and ineffective invundertaking land reforms, despite large demand for change both from ...
Chinsinga, Blessings, Wren-Lewis, Liam
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