Global urbanization and food production are in direct competition for land. This paper carries
out a critical review of how displacing crop production from urban and peri-urban land to …

Highlights•The expansion of transnational land acquisitions raises sustainability
concerns.•Land and water grabbing represent a critical challenge to sustainable …

Assessments of pesticide impacts globally and holistic policies to address them require
accurate pesticide use data, but good use data are difficult to find. For comparable estimates …

Land systems are the result of human interactions with the natural environment.
Understanding the drivers, state, trends and impacts of different land systems on social and …

Rural populations around the world rely on small-scale farming and other uses of land and
natural resources, which are often governed by customary, traditional, and indigenous …

Tropical forests are vital for global biodiversity, carbon storage and local livelihoods, yet they
are increasingly under threat from human activities. Large-scale land acquisitions have …

The beta version of the Global Observatory was launched by the Land Matrix in April 2012
with the aim of creating a reliable source of data to feed debate and provoke informed action …

In 2010, we formed the Land Deal Politics Initiative to study the rising number of large-scale
land deals taking place around the world. We organised small grant competitions and …

The recent phenomenon of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) is associated with what
has been described as a global agrarian transition. New forms of land exploitation and …

Large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) have become a major concern for land use
sustainability at a global scale. A considerable body of case studies has shown that the …