Over the past several years, convergence of global crises in food, energy, finance, and environment has driven a dramatic revaluation land ownership. Powerful transnational national ...

The contributions to this collection use the tools of agrarian political economy explore rapid growth and complex dynamics large-scale land deals in recent years, with a special focus on implications big for property labour regimes, processes structures accumulation. first part introductory essay examines perspective. First we continuities contrasts between historical contemporary grabs, before examining core underlying debate around large- versus small-scale farming futures. Next, unpack...

Political reactions 'from below' to global land grabbing have been vastly more varied and complex than is usually assumed. This essay introduces a collection of ground-breaking studies that discuss responses range from various types organized everyday resistance demands for incorporation or better terms into deals. Initiatives in response deals involved local transnational alliances the use legal extra-legal methods, brought victories defeats. The relevance political discussed light theories...

ABSTRACT Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in large‐scale land deals, often from public lands to hands of foreign or domestic investors. Popularly referred as ‘global grab’, new acquisitions are drawing upon, restructuring and challenging nature both governance government. In Introduction this special issue, we argue for an analysis deals that draws upon insights political ecology, cultural politics agrarian studies illuminate micro‐processes transaction expropriation...

A new political moment is underway. Although there are significant differences in how this constituted different places, one manifestation of the rise distinct forms authoritarian populism. In opening paper JPS Forum series on 'Authoritarian Populism and Rural World', we explore relationship between these politics rural areas around world. We ask transformations have contributed to deepening regressive national politics, shape shaped by politics. propose a global agenda for research, debate...

Visions of food sovereignty have been extremely important in helping to galvanize broad-based and diverse movements around the need for radical changes agro-food systems. Yet while has thrived as a ‘dynamic process’, until recently there insufficient attention many thorny questions, such its origins, connection other justice movements, relation rights discourses, roles markets states challenges implementation. This essay contributes praxis by pushing process critical self-reflection forward...

The most recent ‘land rush’ precipitated by the convergent ‘crises’ of fuel, feed and food in 2007–2008 has heightened debate on consequences land investments, with widespread media coverage, policy commentary civil society engagement. This been accompanied a ‘literature rush’, fast-growing body reports, articles, tables books varied purposes, metrics methods. Land grabbing, as it is popularly called, now hot political topic around world, discussed amongst highest circles. why getting facts...

In this article, I contribute to theorization of the modern era as Plantationocene, a concept grounded in life on land and centered around role plantation sustaining racialized elite, propelling colonial exploration, creating core periphery, sanctioning forced labor, shaping both cultures we consume cultural norms inhabit perform. draw empirical work conducted lusotropics (Brazil, Mozambique, Portugal) well theoretical agrarian studies, critical development political ecology elaborate three...

In 2010, we formed the Land Deal Politics Initiative to study rising number of large-scale land deals taking place around world. We organised small grant competitions and conferences generate more empirical research debate. this article, take stock current state knowledge, as well ways in which context has changed since 2010. identify seven themes: evident variety deals; role financial capital; new technologies; institutional reforms; green grabbing; authoritarian populism; violence,...

Paul Robbins. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. xxi and 242 pp., diags., notes, biblio., index. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 1-4051-0266-7). Will the real political ecologists please step forward? ...

There is a growing literature on the experiences of participatory democracy in Latin America. Largely focused urban areas and municipal service provision, provides important lessons as to whether, how, why participation works improve quality democracy. In this paper, I examine an unlikely case democracy: struggle for land reform Brazilian countryside. Analysing relationships between federal agency charge Brazil (the National Institute Colonization Agrarian Reform) largest grassroots social...

As part of a larger push for so-called South–South development, Brazil is supporting projects in growing number countries across Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we investigate the agricultural project ProSAVANA Mozambique. We draw on research conducted Mozambique argue that attempt to replicate Brazil's successes agro-industrial commodity production discounts importance nationally specific relationships between state, land, labour capital.

Abstract In this introductory article we argue for renewed attention to life and labor on of the land—or what call field Critical Agrarian Studies. Empirically rich theoretically rigorous studies humanity's relationship “soil” remain essential not just historical analysis but understanding urgent contemporary crises, including widespread food insecurity, climate change, proliferation environmental refugees, growing corporate power threats biodiversity. The introduces an innovative varied...

Walsh-Dilley, M., W. Wolford, and J. McCarthy. 2016. Rights for resilience: food sovereignty, power, resilience in development practice. Ecology Society 21(1):11.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-07981-210111

This introduction addresses the rise of 'resilience thinking' in development practice and argues that though scholars practitioners have sought to define measure term resilience concept is neither fixed nor self-evident. We argue this lack ontological coherence unexpectedly makes more productive as an object inquiry than it would be if were reduced a standardised analytical framework or technical object. In article, we draw on our experiences with multi-case participatory, community-based...

This essay introduces and invites contributions to a new Journal of Peasant Studies Forum on 'climate change critical agrarian studies'. Climate is inextricably entwined with contemporary capitalism, but how the relationship between capitalism climate plays out in rural world requires deeper analysis. In particular, way struggles connect huge challenge vital focus for both thinking action. this essay, we make connections studies identify competing, although overlapping, narratives. These...

The 1990s was the decade of neoliberalism in Brazil. During successive administrations President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995–2003), public enterprises were privatized, import tariffs slashed, regional free-trade markets established, and fiscal discipline prioritized an attempt to control a massive debt. As his first term progressed, however, forced respond insistent popular demand for reform country's inequitable land-tenure structure. issue became increasingly visible because strength...

Abstract: Over the past 20 years, land reform – defined here as redistribution of from large to small properties has emerged an important political issue in Global South. Actors with widely differing ideological perspectives have claimed central their political, social and economic platforms. In this paper, I compare reforms championed under neoliberal auspices World Bank (the so‐called Market Led Agrarian Reforms) those supported by popular grassroots actors such Movement Landless Workers...

Contradictions between impressive levels of economic growth and the persistence poverty inequality are perhaps nowhere more evident than in rural Brazil. While Brazil might appear to be an example potential harmony large-scale, export-oriented agribusiness small-scale family farming, high resistance contradict this vision. In introductory paper, we synthesize literature on agrarian situate recent struggles within Latin American context broadly. We highlight seven key characteristics...

This forum for dialogue and reflection invites empirical theoretical inquiries that critically interrogate plantations in their myriad forms through the conceptual analytic of Plantationocene. In doing so, we understand, invite attention to, Plantationocene, both as a key interpreting histories local to global development understanding role plantationlogics today. Not all contributors need agree Plantationocene is useful concept. Rather, envision providing opportunity constructive debate...