"This book critically examines the driving forces, discourses, and conflicts surrounding Chinese investments in overseas farmland, with a specific focus on Australia. With growing amounts of finance channelled into the purchase of overseas food and farming assets, China has become a frontrunner...

"This book provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the links between environmental change, land grabbing and migration, drawing on research conducted in Senegal and Cambodia. While the impacts of environmental change on migration, and of environmental discourses on land grabs, have...

Introduction: Land grabbing as institutional transformation -- The policy context: Feeding Africa while doing business - the anti-politics of LSLA -- Chasing the evolutionary role of chiefs in local land relations -- Implementation of a land deal in a plural legal setting -- "They said they were...

Introduction: Land grabbing as institutional transformation -- The policy context: Feeding Africa while doing business -- the anti-politics of LSLA -- Chasing the evolutionary role of chiefs in local land relations -- Implementation of a land deal in a plural legal setting -- They said they were...

Based on extensive research conducted in Colombia since 2009, this book addresses the connection between land grabbing and agrarian capitalism, as well as the unfulfilled promises of peace and justice. While land remains a key resource at the core of many contemporary civil wars, the impact of...

"This book examines the global scope of tourism-related grabbing of land and other natural resources. Tourism is often presented as a peaceful and benevolent sector that brings people from different cultural backgrounds together and contributes to employment, poverty alleviation, and global...

"This book analyses the political and economic causes, mechanisms and impacts of the industrial tree plantation boom in China. In the past two decades, the industrial tree plantation sector has been expanding rapidly in China, especially in Guangxi Province. Based on extensive primary data, this...