This paper uses extensive micro-level data from Argentine agriculture circa 1880-1914 to explore various hypotheses relating to the supposed unusual and favored position enjoyed by the owner-operated large scale estates (latifundia) on the pampas as compared to small-scale units operated by cash...

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...

The sharing economy for a wide range of goods and services is expanding across the world. To direct the benefits from sharing capital services towards small-scale producers, governments in the developing world are increasingly intervening in fast-growing mechanization rental markets. However,...

The federal government owns and administers 472, 892,659 acres or 21% of the land area of the lower US, making it both the country's largest land owner and among the largest by a central government among western democracies. This condition is surprising, given that the US generally is viewed as...