Migrant labour flows and interconnected agrarian transformations in Southern China

Agriculture and Human Values, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 4, 2025

Language: Английский

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Tracking the sun: exposing India’s solar dispossessions

Globalizations, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 20

Published: March 27, 2024

Utility-scale solar development in India has dispossessed peasants of land and livelihoods. Smallholders alienated from have not been equitably remunerated, rehabilitated, nor offered employment at new parks. Yet it remains unclear which modalities dispossession are used across sites. Drawing on mixed methods fieldwork the Gujarat Solar Park Kurnool Park, this study advances research processes by examining following questions: 1) Which constellation actors institutions facilitate for India; 2) Through do these conduct solar-induced dispossessions? We find behind park function as agents dispossession. Wielding coercive inscription devices that include acquisition laws, wasteland categorizations iterative titling, they seize peasant service private financial firms to underwrite rollout large-scale interventions.

Language: Английский

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The agrarian question of climate change

Progress in Human Geography, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Sept. 4, 2024

The agrarian question of the twenty-first century is climate change. classical asked how capitalist development was reshaping fin de siècle agriculture and with what consequences. answers often contradicted predictions, thereby teleological notions development. Today, we must ask change adaptation mitigation, alongside through other ongoing processes development, are lives, livelihoods, landscapes, politics, We argue that attention to essential understanding social, political, economic transformation broadly in time

Language: Английский

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Limits and possibilities of contemporary land struggles by Indigenous Peoples, Black Communities and Campesinxs in the Colombian Amazon

The Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 30

Published: Jan. 7, 2025

In Colombia, rural working people's struggles are led by Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Colombians, and Campesinxs, each with platforms for land claims. While these efforts have yielded significant titles areas, contradictions arise as the state's capital's attempts to capture capitalist accumulation. This process relies on a divide-and-conquer strategy maintain political legitimacy through consent coercion. The effect is fragmented movements that 'merely sectoral'. challenge academic research practical politics confront not back away from complicated tensions construct framework can bypass trap of being

Language: Английский

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A Political Ecology of Financialization and Farmland Control

Oxford University Press eBooks, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 23, 2025

Abstract Financial actors have demonstrated a robust and growing interest in farmland over the course of twenty-first century. Over past two decades financial engineers developed variety investment products linked to farmland, as opportunities decreased elsewhere economy, capital has poured into farmland-based funds. Drawing on rich expanding literature, this chapter explains how financialization markets shapes land control agrarian contexts. Formatting for purposes is contingent complicated process. When it successful, however, often institutes new property relations that enable extract value from agricultural production compels farmers intensify agro-extractive practices undermine ecological foundations sustainable agriculture. With objective enabling scholars, activists, policymakers undo process, not only details contours socioecological conditions contexts; also identifies different types investors are involved rush, outlines they use, describes processes assetization farmland.

Language: Английский

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Divergent outcomes of large-scale land transactions in Ethiopia: A quantitative comparative analysis

Ecological Economics, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 230, P. 108531 - 108531

Published: Jan. 24, 2025

Language: Английский

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“O dendê era um sonho”: agricultores familiares e rupturas com as agroindústrias de dendê no Pará, Amazônia

Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 63

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Resumo A integração de agricultores familiares a agroindústrias para produção uma commodity, especialmente voltada o agrocombustível, é experiência recente na Amazônia brasileira. Não obstante um conjunto políticas públicas suporte à com inclusão social, iniciativa arrefece após década e desistem dos contratos. O objetivo do artigo analisar as razões que culminaram decisão ruptura contratual reconfiguração das estratégias reprodução social familiares, conduz novas experiências. pesquisa ocorreu em cinco municípios Nordeste Paraense, principal região produtora dendê Brasil. Foram realizados 15 estudos caso observações diretas entrevistas agricultores, técnicos sindicalistas. Os resultados mostram decisões famílias no processo se integrar, romper contratos buscar novos rumos objetivam, maioria, coesão grupo doméstico condição camponesa. Para minoria, entretanto, significou finalização vínculo terra da

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Building Hype: Libertarian Cities, Fictitious Development, and Speculative Dispossession in El Salvador's “Bitcoin City”

Antipode, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 5, 2025

Abstract Libertarian city projects are emerging as a new trend in capitalist urbanisation. One aspect about this is their location rural Global South regions. The former raises questions the role of these global land grab. This paper analyses connection libertarian and dispossession through case Bitcoin City El Salvador. Data from news reports, surveys, cadastral records show that associated with connected to speculative dynamic generated by project's intensive publicity. media spectacle created publicity intensifying pre‐existing grabbing patterns oriented toward construction real estate projects. I argue phenomenon result ruling elite's attempt construct strategy economic growth around logic financial accumulation. To explain rationality behind effort its material impacts, introduce concept fictitious development .

Language: Английский

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Indigenous migrant labourers and land: towards an exploration of indigenous’ socio-cultural reproduction in the Colombian Altillanura

Agriculture and Human Values, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 17, 2025

Language: Английский

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‘Who defends us?' Criollo livestock herders amidst commodity frontier expansion in the Paraguayan Chaco

The Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 37

Published: Feb. 26, 2025

Language: Английский

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