Highlights•Land system science plays a key role in the food security challenge.•Land
availability and intensification potential require a nuanced assessment.•The role of land …

'Land grab'has become a catch‐all phrase to refer to the current explosion of (trans) national
commercial land transactions mainly revolving around the production and export of food …

Placing labor at the center of the global 'land-grab'debate helps sharpen critical insights at
two scales. At the scale of agricultural enterprises, a labor perspective highlights the jobs …

Large-scale investments in farmland have been criticized, chiefly, because of questions
about the capacity of the countries targeted by these land deals to effectively manage these …

Contemporary large-scale land deals are widely understood as involving the expulsion of
people who, in turn, struggle instinctively to resist dispossession This is certainly true in …

The current global land grab is causing radical changes in the use and ownership of land.
The main process driving the land grab, or 'foreignisation of space', as highlighted in the …

Agroecology has played a key role in helping Cuba survive the crisis caused by the collapse
of the socialist bloc in Europe and the tightening of the US trade embargo. Cuban peasants …

Highlights•The body of knowledge about large-scale land acquisition is growing
rapidly.•Contributions by land change science are key to devising sustainable land …

This paper's aim is to show that improvements in land governance in Brazil, and particularly
in the Amazon region, have been the main pre-condition enabling reductions in …

The global discourse on food sovereignty suggests several mechanisms for improving food
security and agricultural livelihoods, including redistributive land reform and restructuring of …