Water governance research is confronted with a messy world that is difficult to make sense
of. Mainstream policy approaches tend to simplify and standardise this messiness in ways …

Groundwater forms the basis for millions of rural and urban livelihoods around the world.
Building on insights from the theory of access, in this article we present how groundwater …

Cash crops such as soy, cocoa and oil palm have expanded at great speed in developing
countries, often at the expense of customary landowners, traditional livelihoods, and …

This paper builds on the literature on green grabbing. It makes a fresh contribution by
bringing in aspects of green grabbing that are less visible and obvious. These are subtle …

In the last two hundred years, the earth has increasingly become the private property of a
few classes, races, transnational corporations, and nations. Repeated claims about the" …

Large-scale acquisitions of agricultural land in developing countries have been rapidly
increasing in the last 10 years, contributing to a major agrarian transition from subsistence or …

This article examines the rise of gatekeeper politics within the ANC, drawing on an analysis
of ANC discussion documents, key informant interviews with senior party officials, and …

The divergence between agricultural water use and the annual supply of water resources
(water gap) has been increasing for decades. The forecast is that this water gap will …

This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political
ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the …

What is so-called 'green'extractivism and where did it come from? The introduction to this
Special Section examines the origins and implications of the concept, linking it to a long …