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Over the past several decades, land investments have dramatically increased to meet global food and biofuel demands, produce industrial commodities, protect environments and develop urban centres.
The process of urbanization in China has been accompanied by the conflict of land expropriation, which is not conducive to social stability.
In many cities and urban areas in Africa, land acquisition for urban redevelopment, land readjustment, and resettlement of affected urban residents are currently framed as innovative approaches to eradicating informal settlements, improving the living environments, and supporting the implementati
Labor migration and large-scale land enclosures are increasingly central to the story of agrarian change throughout the Global South.
This paper deepens the economic analysis of the effects of land consolidation – reduction of land fragmentation.
Economic globalization promotes the economic development of underdeveloped regions but also influences the ecological environments of these regions, such as natural forest degradation.
Concessions granted to investors in Cambodia have generated a deep sense of insecurity in rural forested areas. Villagers are not confined to a passive “everyday resistance of the poor,” as mentioned by James Scott, insofar as they frequently engage in frontal strategies for recovering land.
Since the early 2000s the Lao government has dramatically increased the number of large-scale land concessions issued for agribusinesses.
ABSTRACTED FROM WEBSITE: What is happening with the land and natural wealth around the world, and to the people who depend on them? How are people responding to these trends, threats, and challenges?