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Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis

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The politics of changes in land use and property relations change and the links between them are not sufficiently explored in the current literature as mentioned in this paper, and a preliminary analysis through an analytical approach that suggests some typologies as a step towards a fuller and better understanding of the politics of global land grabbing.
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‘Land grab’ has become a catch-all phrase to refer to the current explosion of (trans)national commercial land transactions mainly revolving around the production and export of food, animal feed, biofuels, timber and minerals. Two key dimensions of the current land grab – namely, the politics of changes in land use and property relations change (and the links between them) – are not sufficiently explored in the current literature.We attempt to address this gap by offering a preliminary analysis through an analytical approach that suggests some typologies as a step towards a fuller and better understanding of the politics of global land grabbing.

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The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals

TL;DR: In this article, the authors 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 focus on the implications of big land deals for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation.
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Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean

TL;DR: Land grabbing has gained momentum in Latin America and the Caribbean during the past decade The phenomenon has taken different forms and character as compared to processes that occur in other regions of the world, especially Africa as mentioned in this paper.
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Resistance, acquiescence or incorporation? An introduction to land grabbing and political reactions ‘from below’

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Agroecology, Food Sovereignty, and the New Green Revolution

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