Poverty has many different dimensions, yet few poverty reduction policies take an integrated
approach to multidimensional poverty. Many continue to focus predominantly on income and …

Amid the growing interest on renewables to fight back the current ecological and social
crises, crops like oil palm and trees like eucalyptus, with ever-growing and flexibly …

Domestic and international capital controlling Guatemala's sugarcane and oil palm
industries are deploying a dual investment strategy in the context of global financial, energy …

Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) has become one of the most rapidly expanding crops in the
world. Many countries have promoted its cultivation as part of a broader rural development …

Summary From IIRSA (Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America) to the PPP
(Puebla to Panama Plan, later renamed the Mesoamerica Project), development banks are …

International investment plays a vital role in development and poverty reduction. Investment
can improve livelihoods and bring jobs, services, and infrastructure, when it is managed …

Today agribusiness occupies 70–80% of the global arable land [(1), p. 55]. Several authors
have conceptualized this agroindustrial production as agroextractivist that has consolidated …

Over the last two decades, the expansion of oil palm and sugarcane plantations in the
Polochic Valley (Guatemala) has exacerbated the historical struggle of Maya …

In the midst of neoliberal restructuring and a project of market-led agrarian reform (MLAR),
Guatemalan rural communities and peasant organizations have fought to access, reclaim, or …

Corporate‐owned sugar‐cane and oil palm plantations in Guatemala are expanding at the
expense of smallholder agriculture. Land control grabs are not only having consequences …