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  1. Library Resource
    Aggregated from the Journal of Peasant Studies
    Abril, 2012

    Across the world, ‘green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. The vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to justify appropriations of land for food or fuel – as where large tracts of land are acquired not just for ‘more efficient farming’ or ‘food security’, but also to ‘alleviate pressure on forests’.

  2. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Diciembre, 2012
    Global

    In the last ten years or so, the global interest in, and concerns about, the issue of how the world shall provide a growing population with sufficient food, bioenergy and wood raw material has attracted increasing attention. Will land and water resources be enough, how shall they be best managed to achieve increased production and productivity without causing far-reaching negative environmental and social side-effects, will climate change make solutions more difficult, will there be financial means and know-how available to address all challenges and opportunities?

  3. Library Resource
    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Febrero, 2012
    Filipinas

    textabstractMainstream adherence to land titling as a strategy to address rural poverty has gained even more sway against the backdrop of the contemporary phenomenon of large-scale farmland acquisitions, known to some as “global land grabbing”. The orthodox narrative, embraced in toto by organisations such as the World Bank, is that formal property rights mitigate the risks of these land acquisitions and allow the poor to access the benefits of these acquisitions.

  4. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Enero, 2013
    Rusia

    textabstractThis paper seeks to unravel the political economy of large-scale land acquisitions in
    post-Soviet Russia. Russia falls neither in the normal category of ‘investor’ countries,
    nor in the category of ‘target’ countries. Russia has large ‘land reserves’, since in the
    1990s much fertile land was abandoned. We analyse how particular Russia is with
    regards to the common argument in favour of land acquisitions, namely that land is
    available, unused or even unpopulated. With rapid economic growth, capital of

  5. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Diciembre, 2012
    Laos, Tailandia

    This article seeks to draw connections between a political ecology of global investment in resource sector development and a culturally informed understanding of rural out-migration across the Lao–Thai border. The author highlights how the departures of rural youth for wage labor in Thailand and the remittances they return to sending villages are becoming important for understanding agrarian transformations in Laos today. In the first section the author introduces the contemporary context of cross-border migrations across the Lao–Thai Mekong border.

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