The Land Rush and Classic Agrarian Questions of Capital and Labour: a systematic scoping review of the socioeconomic impact of land grabs in Africa

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Agrarian political economy and modern world capitalism: the contributions of food regime analysis (2016, background): “Other accounts suggest more complex ensembles of social forces, not least indigenous capitals, including forms of ‘accumulation from below’ by agrarian capitalists and more ambitious petty commodity producers, and ‘host’ states, as well as pointing to sweeping exaggeration of the extent and effects ”
Testing Claims about Large Land Deals in Africa: Findings from a Multi-Country Study (2014, background): “There is a wide range of different figures regarding the scale of the deals, their trends and the factors that drive them (Cotula, 2012, 2013; Oya, 2013b).”
Land grabbing, social differentiation, intensified migration and food security in northern Ghana (2017, background): “Findings such as these aptly reveal some of the contradictions in recent large-scale land acquisitions, particularly their implications for the agrarian question of labor (Oya 2013a).”
Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change (2017, background): “The terms of outgrowing contracts are highly diverse (Smalley 2013), generating different distributions of risk and benefit, and shaping the contours of new class relations in rural areas (Oya 2013).”