Propelled by urbanization, rising incomes, and changing diets, food markets have been
expanding in Africa and South Asia, creating the vast potential for job and income …

The study of peri-urbanization attracted attention in the final quarter of the 20th century, due
to the pace it acquired worldwide and the implication that urbanization and overall …

Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations around the World focuses on an issue
that has gotten much attention in the developed world, but will present new data and …

Evidence assembled in this special issue of Food Policy shows that rising rural population
densities in parts of Africa are profoundly affecting farming systems and the region's …

Executive summary The land challenges, in the context of this report, are climate change
mitigation, adaptation, desertification, land degradation, and food security. The chapter also …

Soybean expansion has been a strong driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss in South
America (SAM). Here, we highlight strong similarities in environmental, institutional, and …

Improving women's access to land is high on the agricultural policy agenda of both
governmental and non-governmental agencies. Yet, the determinants and rationale of …

Land consolidation activities have generally failed in the Sub-Saharan African region for
various reasons. However, there has been a new wave of land consolidation activities in the …

Our purpose is to present and test a typology of land reform theories as a means of
understanding and interrogating the motives behind land reform and to better equip land …

Interrogates the narratives of" land grabbing" and" agricultural investment" through detailed
local studies that illuminate how these are experienced on the ground and the implications …