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Beyond the Global Land Grab : New Directions for Research on Land Struggles and Global Agrarian Change, Paperback / softback Book

Beyond the Global Land Grab : New Directions for Research on Land Struggles and Global Agrarian Change Paperback / softback

Edited by Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Juan Liu, Ben M. McKay

Part of the Rethinking Globalizations series

Paperback / softback

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The conjunction of climate, food, and financial crises in the late 2000s triggered renewed interest in farmland and agribusiness investments around the world.

This phenomenon became known as the "global land grab", and sparked vibrant debates among social movements, NGOs, international development agencies and various government agencies and academics worldwide.

This book addresses four key areas that are moving the debate "beyond land grabs".

These include the role of contract farming and differentiation among farm workers in the consolidation of farmland; the broader forms of dispossession and mechanisms of control and value grabbing beyond "classic" land grabs for agricultural production; discourses about, and responses to, Chinese agribusiness investments abroad; and the relationship between financialization and land grabbing.

The chapters in this edited volume propose new directions to deepen and even transform the research agenda on land struggles and agro-industrial restructuring around the world.

This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers interested in development studies, agrarian changes and land struggles.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Globalizations.

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