China's new Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is commanding attention, in this moment of
international disorder, as a global strategy reflecting its growing political-economic power …

The expansion of commercial agriculture is one of the primary drivers of livelihood and land-
use changes in the world. Globalisation and other factors have intensified this expansion to …

Despite international media's waning attention, research and political debates on global
land grabbing have not subsided. We argue the importance of understanding the …

This paper examines the situation of rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from
Myanmar during the Covid-19 pandemic. It looks at the circumstances of the migrants prior …

There are not fixed conditions that make potential agricultural frontiers attractive to capital:
different spaces and strategies are chosen in relation to previous failed experiments …

ABSTRACT The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries are
emerging as key sites of agricultural commodity production, distribution, circulation, and …

Using the UN Comtrade database and multiple sources of agricultural investment data, this
paper outlines the emerging patterns of food trade and agricultural investment between …

This paper examines the transformation of agrarian livelihoods due to crop booms at the
China-Myanmar borderland. A key finding is that local villagers have rented out their land to …

This paper reflects on the concept of the Plantationocene through an analysis of sugarcane
plantations in Guangxi province, China. It argues that although these plantations are owned …

When large-scale common land is taken from villagers by investors with little compensation,
their labour unneeded, villagers' livelihoods tend to be largely destroyed. This implies a …