The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals

By B. White, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., R. Hall, I. Scoones, Wendy Wolford. 2012

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change (2017, background): “cases revive) large colonial estates and state farms (Hall et al. 2015; Anseeuw et al. 2012; White et al. 2012).”
‘Like gold with yield’: evolving intersections between farmland and finance (2014, background): “Several excellent macro-level overviews of land grabbing (Cotula 2012, McMichael 2012, White et al. 2012) have signaled the importance of financial processes but have not elaborated much on their role.”
The Handbook of Neoliberalism (2016, background): “Last, but not least, land grabbing often leads to monocropping and the use of genetically modified seeds (GMS), as well as industrial farming technologies based on petrochemicals which can have deleterious effects on the environment (White et al. 2013).”
The Political Economy of Institutional Landownership: Neorentier Society and the Financialization of Land (2014, background): “The term “land grab” refers to large-scale acquisition of land by investors (both public and private), often involving the displacement of communities and dramatic changes in agrarian land regimes (White et al. 2012).”
Introduction to the Special Issue: Water Grabbing? Focus on the (Re)appropriation of Finite Water Resources (2012, background): “In recent years, much media, academic and policy attention has focused on the rapid growth of largescale land deals around the world (see GRAIN, 2008; von Braun and Meinzen-Dick, 2009; Cotula et al., 2009; Borras and Franco, 2010; World Bank, 2010; Zoomers, 2010; Deininger, 2011; De Schutter, 2011; ”
Land grabbing, social differentiation, intensified migration and food security in northern Ghana (2017, background): “The main purpose of this paper is to contribute to current debates on land grabbing by investigating dynamics at the household level, where the ‘micro-politics of negotiations of land control, access and exclusion are played out’ (White et al. 2012, 633).”
Global land governance: from territory to flow? (2013, background): “However, much attention in research has focused on smallholders’ straight dispossession from land, often captured under the term ‘land grabbing’ [4 ,64].”
The politics of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush (2013, background): “6http://landportal.info/landmatrix 7http://www.farmlandgrab.org/ 8See: Wolford et al. (2013); Margulis et al. (2013) ; Borras et al. (2013) ; White et al. (2012) ; Mehta et al. (2012) and Fairhead et al. (2012).”
Accumulation by securitization: commercial poaching, neoliberal conservation, and the creation of new wildlife frontiers (2016, background): “…(Prudham, 2007), and, closely related to this paper, the phenomenon of land grabbing (Borras and Franco, 2012; Borras et al., 2012; Hall, 2013; White et al., 2012), along with a variety of neoliberal conservation practices (Benjaminsen and Bryceson, 2012; Corson and MacDonald, 2012; Leach et…”
Land appropriation, surplus people and a battle over visions of agrarian futures in Africa (2013, background): “In their comprehensive introductory article on ‘the new enclosures’, B. White et al. (2012) point to the need to discuss labour processes and accumulation from a critical political economy approach.”