Labor migration and large-scale land enclosures are increasingly central to the story of
agrarian change throughout the Global South. Nonetheless, there remain limited …

Land questions have invigorated agrarian studies and economic history, with particular
emphases on its control, since Marx. Words such as 'exclusion','alienation','expropriation',' …

'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 …

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 …

Societal pressure on the global land and freshwater resources is increasing as a result of
the rising food demand by the growing human population, dietary changes, and the …

We introduce this special issue by explaining seven characteristics of land grabbing in Latin
America. These features are not unique to the region. By highlighting them–arguing, for …

Scholars, practitioners and activists generally agree that investor interest in land has
climbed sharply, although they differ about what to call this phenomenon and how to …

Land grabbing has emerged as a significant issue in contemporary global governance that
cuts across the fields of development, investment, food security, among others. Whereas …

This paper argues that research into the dynamics of land control in the contemporary 'land
grab'can benefit from engagement with the literature on booms in the production of crops …

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 …