Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and
energy needs of a growing and increasingly affluent human population. Water plays an …

Highlights•The expansion of transnational land acquisitions raises sustainability
concerns.•Land and water grabbing represent a critical challenge to sustainable …

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 …

Large-scale acquisitions of agricultural land in developing countries have been rapidly
increasing in the last 10 years, contributing to a major agrarian transition from subsistence or …

El fenómeno del despojo de tierra y agua, entre otros recursos naturales, ha ganado
creciente atención en los últimos años. A pesar de esto, pocos trabajos han abordado el …

The contestation and appropriation of water is not new, but it has been highlighted by recent
global debates on land grabbing. Water grabbing takes place in a field that is locally and …

In this study, we assessed the impacts of land use and climate changes on the river flows of
81 watersheds within the Cerrado biome, Brazil, based on a comprehensive analysis of field …

This paper analyzes the previous decade of governmental extractivism in Colombia,
designed and imposed through two main power mechanisms: legislation and securitization …

Mega-hydraulic projects tend to produce severe social and environmental impacts, with
burdens and benefits unevenly distributed among different social groups, regions, and …

In 2010, we formed the Land Deal Politics Initiative to study the rising number of large-scale
land deals taking place around the world. We organised small grant competitions and …