This paper has two main objectives. First, to address the problematic of the socioeconomic
impact of land deals in sub-Saharan Africa by looking at what we know from the available …

Highlights•Soils provide ecosystem services that go way beyond agricultural
production.•Soil degradation can be controlled and a series of adapted technologies are …

This article highlights the need for collaborative research on ecological conflicts within a
global perspective. As the social metabolism of our industrial economy increases …

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 …

The so‐called global land rush has drawn new attention to land, its uses and value. But land
is a strange object. Although it is often treated as a thing and sometimes as a commodity, it is …

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 …

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 …

Over the past ten years, the study of environmental harm and 'crimes against nature'has
become an increasingly popular area of research amongst criminologists. This book …

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 book fills a gap in the literature by setting food security in the context of evolving global
food governance. Today's food system generates hunger alongside of food waste …