Oil palm plantations have expanded rapidly in recent decades. This large‐scale land‐use change has had great ecological, economic, and social impacts on both the areas converted …
W Wolford - Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, I contribute to theorization of the modern era as the Plantationocene, a concept grounded in life on the land and centered around the role of the plantation in sustaining a …
Drawing on Indigenous peoples' struggles against settler colonialism, Theft Is Property! reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting …
S Sassen - University of Harvard, 2014 - books.google.com
Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today's socioeconomic and …
The first collection to explore infectious disease, agriculture, economics, and the nature of science together Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has …
Political reactions 'from below'to global land grabbing have been vastly more varied and complex than is usually assumed. This essay introduces a collection of ground-breaking …
La economía global no se expande sin consecuencias: creciente desigualdad y desempleo, cada vez más poblaciones desplazadas o encarceladas, destrucción de la tierra y del agua …
Agricultural extension is booming. This interest is critical in the context of numerous pressing issues linked to agrarian change and rural development. Because of its importance …
JA Aznar-Sánchez, M Piquer-Rodríguez… - Land use policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Currently, 42% of the world's population depends on agriculture for its livelihood, and agriculture drives the economy of most developing countries. Therefore, human life on …