Brazil faces its greatest period of environmental setback, where “ruralists”(large landholders
and their representatives) gain access to government land in the Amazon. New roads are …

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 …

Highlights•Complex dynamics exist between climate change and financialized food
systems.•Financial tools for climate adaptation generate dynamics that exacerbate risks in …

A confluence of concerns about tropical forest loss, global warming, and social inequality
drive calls to transform land use governance. Yet there is widespread debate about what …

In the past decade, contract farming has re-emerged due to the increased opposition to
large-scale land acquisitions in many develo** countries. During this era, contract farming …

Over the years, the Ugandan government had been promoting agricultural
commercialization to become a middle-income economy by 2020. In 2012, the president …

Scholarship at the intersection of agrarian studies and climate change has made substantial
contributions toward a deeper understanding of how climate and environmental changes …

This paper explores how subordinated financialisation occurs through uneven
environmental transformations on a global scale, thereby revealing a political ecology of …

Women play an important role in agriculture and rural economic development. Gender
access to farmland and its impact on agricultural productivity, as well as gender-based …

The article addresses the social relations of labour in Senegal a decade after the land rush.
Based on an intersectional feminist analysis of three firms, the study found that workers' …