Land dispossessions and water appropriations: Political ecology of land and water grabs in Ghana
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104068
Abstract: Abstract Recent land grabs in Sub-Saharan Africa are influenced by both land availability and access to water resources beyond seasonal rains. However, much of the literature has treated land grabs and their attendant water resource… read more here.
Keywords: water; water appropriations; land grabs; land water ... See more keywords
Corporate land grabs: Colonial continuity and space of exception in Kenya
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104964
Abstract: Abstract In this paper, the focus is on land dispossession instigated by large corporations, and the way they produce spaces of colonial persistence through particular structures and sovereignty systems that differ from the state-based administrative… read more here.
Keywords: space; grabs colonial; land; colonial continuity ... See more keywords
Chinese land grabs in Brazil? Sinophobia and foreign investments in Brazilian soybean agribusiness
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DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2017.1377374
Abstract: ABSTRACT Chinese companies were singled out among major investors seeking farmland in Brazil, but my own and other emerging research reveals that China still lags far behind investors from the Global North, and there is… read more here.
Keywords: soybean; sinophobia foreign; land grabs; brazil sinophobia ... See more keywords
Land grabs, farmworkers, and rural livelihoods in West Africa: some silences in the food sovereignty discourse
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DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2020.1716922
Abstract: ABSTRACT The global land rush has spurred small, modest, and big anti-land grab mobilizations, notably the food sovereignty movement. The movement has been instrumental in representing the interests of small-scale family farmers whose livelihoods are… read more here.
Keywords: west africa; land; land grabs; food sovereignty ... See more keywords
Will small farmers survive the twenty-first century – and should they?
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DOI: 10.1080/14888386.2017.1351397
Abstract: Agriculture has a dominant role in rural land use in many countries, meaning that farmers control and manage much of the land, including its biodiversity and water resources. It is estimated that there are 570… read more here.
Keywords: agricultural land; small farmers; many countries; land ... See more keywords