Winner of the Barrington Moore Jr. Prize for the Best Book in Comparative and Historical
Sociology from the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the Best Book Award in the …

Recent research on land deals reports gigantic quantities of hectares seized, with relatively
little regard for the solidity of the evidence or for considerations of scale other than area. This …

In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected,
success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of …

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Using empirical case materials from the Philippines and referring to rich experiences from
different countries historically, this book offers conceptual and practical conclusions that …

Many works about agragarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations are
to be eliminated in the course of capitalist development. This text argues that the incidence …

The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest
in the increasingly contentious issue of land grabbing-the large-scale acquisition of land in …

The lack of historical perspective in many studies of land grabbing leads researchers to
ignore or underestimate the extent to which pre-existing social relations shape rural spaces …

This article examines narratives about nature conservation in Costa Rica, specifically those
related to wildlife and biodiversity, and their evolution with the growth of tourism and …