Does China's 'going out'strategy prefigure a new food regime?

P McMichael - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
China's new Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is commanding attention, in this moment of
international disorder, as a global strategy reflecting its growing political-economic power …

[HTML][HTML] The value of so-called 'failed'large-scale land acquisitions

SM Borras Jr, JC Franco, T Moreda, Y Xu, N Bruna… - Land use policy, 2022 - Elsevier
The land rush has remained, and is likely to remain, a significant global phenomenon
despite waning international media attention. The scope of the phenomenon is likely to be …

Towards a science of 'land grabbing'

C Liao, A Agrawal - Land Use Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
In the past two decades, large-scale land transactions (LSLTs), commonly known as land
grabs or large-scale land acquisitions, have been pursued by agricultural investors and host …

[BOK][B] Scholar-activism and land struggles

SM Borras, JC Franco - 2023 - pure.eur.nl
This small book is part of our ongoing collaboration in the context of political struggles for
agrarian justice over more than 30 years. We started our collaboration in 1992 in the …

Rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar, Covid-19, and agrarian movements

SM Borras, JC Franco, D Ra, T Kramer… - Agriculture and Human …, 2022 - Springer
This paper examines the situation of rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from
Myanmar during the Covid-19 pandemic. It looks at the circumstances of the migrants prior …

[HTML][HTML] How inclusive businesses can contribute to local food security

E Mangnus - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Frameworks for designing and assessing inclusive business hold a narrow
conceptualization of the farmer and his livelihood.•In overlooking farm diversity among their …

New geographies of development: Grounding China's global integration

JM Klinger, JSS Muldavin - Territory, Politics, Governance, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The introduction to this themed issue,'New Geographies of Development: Grounding China's
Global Integration', contributes to ongoing reconceptualization of research approaches to …

[HTML][HTML] Contesting large-scale land acquisitions in the Global South

J Sändig - World Development, 2021 - Elsevier
As agricultural investors have acquired large tracts of land in the Global South recently,
many affected communities and civil society groups have contested what they perceive as …

Land grabbing by villagers? Insights from intimate land grabbing in the rise of industrial tree plantation sector in Guangxi, China

Y Xu - Geoforum, 2018 - Elsevier
While most studies focus on large-scale foreign corporate-dominated land grabbing,
relatively small-scale land acquisitions initiated by local villagers receive much less …

Ecological civilization in the mountains: how walnuts boomed and busted in southwest China

JA Zinda, J He - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
As projects of commodification and environmental protection converge, it is crucial to
understand how authoritarian states attempt to secure commodities, conservation, and …