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, 2021 Land grabbing is not a novelty although it might appear so at first glance. It is indeed renowned for it has appeared consistently in history while being applied during colonial times. Colonial territories were a source of cheap land, labor and territories those territories resulted in a system of low-priced payments to peasant producers exporting ...
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Championed as a pathway for sustainable growth, the “blue economy” (BE) has garnered increasing interest in recent decades. International organizations like the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) increasingly point to marine resources and activities as a “new frontier” for economic growth ...
Flora St. Pier +2 more
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Stimulus for land grabbing and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Environmental Research Letters, 2019 We assessed the impact on the Brazilian Amazon of a 2017 land law that reinforces a mechanism for acquiring land rights historically linked to deforestation, since land grabbers clear the forest to signal land occupation and claim land rights.
Brenda Brito +4 more
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Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Despite the importance of resource reallocation in shaping a variety of strategic outcomes, strategy scholars have paid only limited attention to the processes by which firms reallocate their resources across successive systemic innovations.
Gino Cattani +2 more
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Mural Internacional, 2018 O presente artigo tem por objetivo compreender o fenômeno land grabbing à luz de transformações recentes na economia e política internacional. Para atingir este objetivo, busca-se, primeiramente, avançar na construção de uma definição para o fenômeno ...
Bruna Figueiredo Gonçalves
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Land grabs and livelihood outcomes: Exploring the coping mechanisms adopted by farmers in agrarian communities in Ghana [PDF]
, 2021 John Hopeson Anku
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A Bioregional Approach to Teaching Sustainability and Resilience Online
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This chapter describes how the first graduate program in resilient and sustainable communities has evolved over the past decade, maintaining its bioregional approach to distance learning while adapting the curriculum to meet new challenges in the age of climate change.
Laird Christensen
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The production‐distribution‐consumption triad has structured how anthropologists understand exchange for roughly a century. This article argues for expanding this triad to include an explicit focus on acquisition – the systems, processes, and practices of acquiring.
Hanna Garth
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Terra Brasilis, 2017 This article aims to understand the period between 1822 and 1850 as a moment of Brazilian history in which both the absolutization of private land property and the legalization of land grabbing were instituted simultaneously.
Gustavo Francisco Teixeira Prieto
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