Centering labor in the land grab debate

By T. Li. 2011

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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Labour Market Effects of Large-Scale Agricultural Investment: Conceptual Considerations and Estimated Employment Effects (2017, background): “430 vulnerable parts of society will lose their means of existence (Li, 2011).”
China's ‘Developmental Outsourcing’: A critical examination of Chinese global ‘land grabs’ discourse (2012, neutral): “Some point to the problem that there is less demand for (local) employment, with negative outcomes for social equity, when largescale monoculture production replaces small-scale farming (Murray Li 2011, Bush et al. 2011).”
Conservation practice as primitive accumulation (2011, background): “In other cases, small-scale or localized commodification of natural resources may be criminalized in exchange for willing labor and commodification at a global scale (Li 2010, 125).”
Reconsidering the links between poverty, international labour migration, and agrarian change: critical insights from Nepal (2016, background): “2013; Scoones 2009), many scholars continue to emphasize the complementarity of land, farming and natural resources in the sustainability of livelihoods for the majority of the rural poor (Akram-Lodhi, Borras, and Kay 2007; Li 2011; Mushongah and Scoones 2012; Sharma, Upreti, and Müller-Böker 2014; ”
Trade-offs between environment and livelihoods: Bridging the global land use and food security discussions (2017, neutral): “…labor force absorption capacity in the off-farm economy, which in many developing regions appears limited, suggesting that a too rapid mechanization would fail to pull laborers out of poverty (Li 2011); and the pro-poor effects of agricultural development through linkages with other sectors.”
Land grabs, land control, and Southeast Asian crop booms (2011, background): “Such inducements may include direct compensation, a share in the profits of the scheme, and labour opportunities (though often states and companies prefer to see labour undertaken by migrants – see Li 2011 , Hall forthcoming).”
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; ”
Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change (2017, background): “…who has been most adversely affected, who has gained as a result of capitalist penetration into agrarian systems, the degree of social differentiation that results (Moyo, Jha, and Yeros 2013) and the extent to which commercial farming creates jobs or results in local labour redundancy (Li 2011).”
The politics of agrofuels and mega-land and water deals: insights from the ProCana case, Mozambique (2011, background): “Supporting De Schutter, Li (2011) argues that the worst scenario is when capitalist corporations needed the land but not the labour of local people in situations where the dispossessed cannot be absorbed in any productive sectors (industrial or agricultural, in town or country): they become…”
The rise of flex crops and commodities: implications for research (2016, background): “Observers argue that the optimistic estimates of the labour absorption capacity of the Indonesian oil palm sector are inflated (Li 2011).”
Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on A Social-Ecological Analysis of Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits, Costs, Obstacles, and Enabling Policy Frameworks Diversified Farming Systems: An Agroecological, Systems-based Alternative to Modern Industrial Agriculture (2012, background): “Their shade coffee systems now often resemble native forests and help conserve biodiversity, reduce soil erosion, conserve water, improve microclimates and resist hurricane damage (Perfecto et al. 1996, Lin 2007, Philpott et al. 2008a, b, Mendez et al. 2010).”
Patterns of agrarian transformation in Ethiopia: State-mediated commercialisation and the ‘land grab’ (2012, background): “A key concern of the ‘land grab’ debate is the extent to which plantations create employment and consequently address problems of rural unemployment (Li 2011).”
Gender and generation in engagements with oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia: insights from feminist political ecology (2017, background): “…identify on the one hand cases of accumulation by dispossession, accompanied by conflict and resistance (Colchester et al. 2006; McCarthy 2010; Li 2011), and on the other hand cases of smallholder ‘enthusiasm’ for oil palm, that attract policy responses aimed at facilitating © 2017 The…”
Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains (2014, background): “As several scholars of the land rush have observed, however, investors are primarily interested in land; if it is not functional to their operations, labor will be expelled (Li 2011, Daniel 2012, Levien 2012).”