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When Land Meets Finance in Latin America: Some Intersections between Financialization and Land Grabbing in Argentina and Brazil

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
Financialization is one of the most relevant processes embedded in the functioning and evolution of the contemporary capitalist model and presents differential characteristics in the peripheral economies of the world-system.
Jorge García-Arias   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What Drives Landowners to Resist Selling Their Land? Insights from Ethical Capitalism and Landowners’ Perceptions

open access: yesLand, 2021
Foreign land grabbing is acknowledged as a phenomenon that generates disempowerment and dispossession of local farmers, human rights violations. Previous studies have revealed the lack of ethical benchmarks in foreign large-scale land transactions that ...
Ruxandra Malina Petrescu-Mag   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

PERAMPASAN TANAH DAN KONFLIK: KISAH PERLAWANAN SEDULUR SIKEP

open access: yesBHUMI: Jurnal Agraria dan Pertanahan, 2018
This paper draws how the people to make effort against land grabbing process in Kendeng montain range, Pati, Central Java. The conflict not only into make effort the struggle forms of violence, but also come into fights on ideas level, because the are ...
Tri Chandra Aprianto
doaj   +1 more source

Analyzing the Changes of the Meaning of Customary Land in the Context of Land Grabbing in Malawi

open access: yesLand, 2021
Ordinary Malawians who live in customary land have been suffering from land grabbing due to their weak and ill-defined land rights. Although Malawi has experienced a number of land reforms that should have contributed to strengthening customary land ...
Yuh-Jin Bae
doaj   +1 more source

The dangerous rise of Land Grabbing through Climate Change Mitigation policies: the examples of Biofuel and REDD+

open access: yesRevista de Estudos Constitucionais, Hermenêutica e Teoria do Direito, 2021
This paper seeks to investigate the interconnections between climate change and land grabbing. It offers a nuanced understanding of the critical intersections of climate change mitigation policies with land grabbing, before and after the Paris Agreement.
Giulia Parola
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Does Commons Grabbing Lead to Resilience Grabbing? The Anti-Politics Machine of Neo-Liberal Agrarian Development and Local Responses

open access: yesLand, 2020
This Special Issue contributes to the debate that land grabbing should be discussed as commons grabbing [...]
Tobias Haller   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Land Grabbing and Jatropha in India: An Analysis of ‘Hyped’ Discourse on the Subject

open access: yesLand, 2021
In the early 2000s, powerful narratives (re-)emerged around the food–fuel–land nexus, which, combined with the financial, food, and fuel crises of 2007–08, sparked new concerns about the finiteness of our resources and triggered, as well as partially ...
Anika Trebbin
doaj   +1 more source

Land grabbing in Mexico: extent, scale, purpose and novelty

open access: yesRevista Mexicana de Ciencias Forestales, 2017
The expression “land grabbing” has been used to describe large scale land transactions in developing nations; buyers or contractors usually are governments or companies of industrialized nations.
Verónica Vázquez García
doaj   +1 more source

Land-grabbing in and by Brazil: victim and buyer

open access: yesRevista de Direito Econômico e Socioambiental, 2019
This article intends to analyse the dual role of the Brazil in the phenomenon of Land Grabbing. This paper addresses, in the first chapter, a definition  of Land Grabbing, which helps in the delineation of the discourse, then in the second, gives a ...
Giulia Parola, Lodovica Toffoletto
doaj   +1 more source

Land grabs, the agrarian question and the corporate food regime

open access: yesCanadian Food Studies, 2015
Over the last decade civil society organizations and activist-scholars have pointed to “land grabbing” as one of the central issues to have emerged in the world food system. In particular, land grabbing was identified as a new and immediate international
A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi
doaj   +1 more source

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