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 …

Winner of the 2019 Global and Transnational Sociology Best Book Award, American
Sociological Association Winner of the 2019 Political Economy of World System (PEWS) …

The contributions to this collection use the tools of agrarian political economy to explore the
rapid growth and complex dynamics of large-scale land deals in recent years, with a special …

Rural populations around the world rely on small-scale farming and other uses of land and
natural resources, which are often governed by customary, traditional, and indigenous …

In rural areas of developing countries, more than 70% of the population still depends on
agriculture. However, economic crises, unscientific land allocation and climate change …

Critical scholars have made extensive use of the concepts of primitive accumulation and
accumulation by dispossession to analyse the global land grab. These concepts have been …

Over the past few years, large-scale land acquisitions in Africa have stoked controversy,
making headlines in media reports across the world. Land that only a short time ago seemed …

Large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) have become a major concern for land use
sustainability at a global scale. A considerable body of case studies has shown that the …

This paper examines the domestic political economy of so-called 'land-grabbing'in Ethiopia,
assessing the motivations of the Ethiopian government, which has strongly promoted foreign …

One of the core principles instituted by the post-1991 government in Ethiopia that took power
after a successful armed struggle was ethnic-based federalism, informed by a neo-Leninist …