Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean

By Saturnino M. Borras Jr., J. Franco, Sergio Gómez, C. Kay, M. Spoor. 2012

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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The rise of flex crops and commodities: implications for research (2016, background): “The conceptual discussion draws from the very initial and highly abbreviated exploration of the notion of flex crops in Borras et al. (2012).”
EU criteria for sustainable biofuels: accounting for carbon, depoliticising plunder (2013, background): “…land and other associated resources such as water in order to derive economic benefit; large-scale land acquisitions and/or capital investment; and capital accumulation strategies responding to a convergence of multiple crises – food, energy, climate and financial (Borras et al., 2012: 850–851).”
Carbon colonialism and the new land grab: Plantation forestry in Uganda and its livelihood impacts (2014, background): “The outcome of this rupture serves to reinforce economic inequalities by denying local access to land, with outcomes that some refer to as a neoliberal land grab (see for example Borras et al., 2012; Fairhead et al., 2012).”
China's ‘Developmental Outsourcing’: A critical examination of Chinese global ‘land grabs’ discourse (2012, neutral): “For instance, while being the recipient of foreign investments, a number of Latin American countries also invests in agricultural land themselves (Borras et al. 2011).”
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals (2012, background): “…somehow allow for ‘diversification within a single crop’: sell as sugar when ethanol price is low, sell as ethanol when sugar price is low; sell palm oil as cooking oil when biodiesel market is not yet ready, sell as biodiesel when supply for cooking oil is high, and so on (Borras et al. 2012).”
Power: the missing element in sustainable consumption and absolute reductions research and action (2016, background): “…through the exercise of instrumental power, i.e. through lobbying governments to privatize land, land that other, often poor subsistence farmers have used for generations, and to sell it to large local land owners or to foreign companies and countries (Borras et al., 2012; Borras and Franco, 2012).”
The Long Green Revolution (2013, background): “This is reflected in the wider ‘power grabs’ associated with everything from grain reserves to land grabs (Borras et al., 2012).”
Accumulation by securitization: commercial poaching, neoliberal conservation, and the creation of new wildlife frontiers (2016, background): “Control, which can be defined as “practices that fix or consolidate forms of access, claiming, and exclusion for some time” (Peluso and Lund, 2011, 668), does not necessarily entail complete ownership or even enclosure and vice-versa (Borras et al., 2012; Borras et al., 2011; Hall, 2011, 2013).”
Introduction to the Special Issue: Water Grabbing? Focus on the (Re)appropriation of Finite Water Resources (2012, background): “3 Building on this, Borras et al. (2012) see contemporary land grabbing as marked by three defining features that are worth considering as backdrop to thinking about water grabbing.”
Transnational land deals for agriculture in the global south : analytical report based on the Land Matrix database (2012, methodology): “Confronted with the difficulty of obtaining information on the final destination of production, different studies have emphasized the particular importance of this group of crops (Borras et al., 2011).”
Accumulation by Dispossession and Socio‐Environmental Conflicts Caused by the Expansion of Agribusiness in Argentina (2015, background): “As happens in other Latin American countries, there is a growing participation of (trans-)Latin American companies in the domestic land market (Borras et al. 2012), and a part of these investments is channelled through sowing pools.”
Land concentration and land grabbing in Europe: a preliminary analysis (2015, background): “Our reference point for the loose definition we use here is the one initially explored by Borras et al. (2012).”