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 …

Over the past few years, agribusiness, investment funds and government agencies have
been acquiring long-term rights over large areas of farmland in lower income countries. It is …

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 …

The lack of historical perspective in many studies of land grabbing leads researchers to
ignore or underestimate the extent to which pre-existing social relations shape rural spaces …

The Rwandan government's ongoing reconfiguration of the agricultural sector seeks to
facilitate increased penetration of smallholder farming systems by domestic and …

Large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) are controversially discussed with respect to their
local impacts. On the one hand, they are regarded as an opportunity for employment …

Land Rights Page 1 Findings of the Global Commercial Pressures on Land Research Project
Ward Anseeuw, Liz Alden Wily, Lorenzo Cotula, and Michael Taylor and the Rush for Land …

International observers have lauded Rwanda as an example of an African country taking
control of its own development trajectory, and as a market-friendly destination for investment …

La falta de perspectiva històrica en la mayoría de los estudios sobre la nueva ola de
acaparamiento de tierras lleva a los investigadores a subestimar hasta qué punto las …

The paper's background is a revival of the historically dominant narrative on the large-scale
and plantation farming (LSF and PF) in Africa, in reaction to the contemporary phenomenon …