Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean

SM Borras Jr, JC Franco, S Gómez, C Kay… - The Journal of …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Land grabbing has gained momentum in Latin America and the Caribbean during the past
decade. The phenomenon has taken different forms and character as compared to …

Looking back to see forward: the legal niceties of land theft in land rushes

LA Wily - The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on …, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
This paper aims to make a modest contribution to an overdue need to locate the current land
rush in its historical context, less as a new phenomenon than as a surge in the continuing …

Contemporary discourses and contestations around pro‐poor land policies and land governance

SM Borras Jr, JC Franco - Journal of Agrarian Change, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The meaning of land and land policies is diverse and contested across and within local and
(inter) national settings. The phrase 'land policy', used to refer to all policies that have …

La Vía Campesina and its global campaign for agrarian reform

SM Borras Jr - Journal of agrarian change, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Vía Campesina's 'Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform'(GCAR) has made a significant
impact (inter) nationally in reshaping the terms of the land reform debates. However, its …

Securing development: Uneven geographies of coastal tourism development in El Salvador

R Patel - World Development, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the last ten years, El Salvador has emerged as a popular coastal tourist destination
known for its beautiful beaches and world-renowned surf. Riding this wave, the government …

Transnational organizing in agrarian Central America: Histories, challenges, prospects

M Edelman - Journal of Agrarian Change, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Central America was one of the principal regions where transnational peasant organizing
emerged and from which it spread in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Yet by the late 1990s …

The historical relationship between agrarian reforms and internal armed conflicts: Relevant factors for the Colombian post-conflict scenario

JMV Escallón - Land Use Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
With the purpose of identifying relevant factors potentially affecting the implementation of
Colombian agrarian reform in its post-conflict phase, this article explores the links between …

Hydrosocial extractive territories: Gold, sugarcane and contested water politics in El Salvador

JA Artiga-Purcell - Geoforum, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In 2017 El Salvador became the only country in the world to ban notoriously water-
degrading metal mining. Seemingly, Salvadorans chose “water over gold.” However …

El acaparamiento de tierras en América Latina y el Caribe visto desde una perspectiva internacional más amplia

M Spoor, J Franco, C Kay - 2011 - repub.eur.nl
Introducción y mensajes claves Este documento se basa en la investigación empírica que
fue encomendada por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la …

Toward understanding the dynamics of land change in Latin America

JC Rocha, MM Baraibar, L Deutsch, A de Bremond… - Ecology and …, 2019 - JSTOR
Climate change, financial shocks, and fluctuations in international trade are some of the
reasons why resilience is increasingly invoked in discussions about land-use policy …