This Campbell systematic review examines the effect of interventions to strengthen land
property rights on outcomes such as investment, agricultural productivity and farmer …

Not all politics is local. Not even local politics is necessarily local. The reemergence of local
politics is not comparable to the nationalization of politics but is rather an element making …

The expansion of capitalism produces contests over the definition and control of resources.
On a global scale, new patterns of resource exploration, extraction, and commodification …

This paper is motivated by a concern that adaptation and vulnerability research suffer from
an under-theorization of the political mechanisms of social change and the processes that …

Treating the “state” as a finished product gets in the way of understanding it. The state is
always in the making. This article, which acts as the Introduction to a special issue, argues …

In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources
vary across localities, districts and farming regions. These differences produce patterned …

Efforts to reduce suffering have habitually focused on control and repair of individual bodies.
The social origins of suffering and distress, including poverty and discrimination, even if …

Governance has become one of the most commonly used concepts in contemporary political
science. It is, however, often used to mean a variety of different things. This book helps to …

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

Whether or not investments in African agriculture can generate quality employment at scale,
avoid dispossessing local people of their land, promote diversified and sustainable …