Does oil palm boost agricultural growth and reduce rural poverty, or is it a threat to rural
livelihoods and tropical forest landscapes? This paper introduces a Special Issue on this …

In the context of current decolonial geographical debates calling for action-oriented
approaches to changing geographical knowledge construction, we propose cuerpo-territorio …

Between 1993 and 2015 the land planted to oil palm in Colombia increased fourfold, from
119,000 ha to 484,000 ha. This rapid growth coincided with a period of extreme armed …

Este artículo propone algunos elementos claves para el estudio de los procesos y las
dinámicas de despojo desde una perspectiva espacial. Luego de rastrear cómo se ha …

In Colombia's agrarian spaces, war and extractivism are deeply entangled. Almost four
years after the peace accords signed between the national government and the FARC …

This article addresses how water is being represented and positioned by Wayúu people in
order to claim and defend water's territorial rights against the expansion of the Cerrejón coal …

In the early 1970s, a group of Colombian intellectuals led by the pioneering sociologist
Orlando Fals Borda created a research-activist collective called La Rosca de Investigación y …

The concept of territorial peace is at the core of the peace agreement signed by the
Colombian government and FARC guerrilla movement in 2016. Recognising the uneven …

Based on extensive research conducted in Colombia since 2009, this book addresses the
connection between land grabbing and agrarian capitalism, as well as the unfulfilled …

Agrarian extractivism has captured growing scholarly attention in the context of heightened
land grabbing dynamics. Particularly in Latin America, the concept has gained political …