Centering labor in the land grab debate

Why We Need the Concept of Land-grab-induced Displacement

This paper challenges the traditional threefold classification of forced migration, and proposes a new concept: land-grab-induced displacement. The concept sheds light on issues that are shrouded by the conventional typology. Displacement, frequently treated as the ‘collateral damage’ of war and climate change, or an unfortunate sacrifice necessitated by ‘development’, may often be better under...

Reframing the land-sparing/land-sharing debate for biodiversity conservation.

Conservation biologists are devoting an increasing amount of energy to debating whether land sparing (high-yielding agriculture on a small land footprint) or land sharing (low-yielding, wildlife-friendly agriculture on a larger land footprint) will promote better outcomes for local and global biodiversity. In turn, concerns are mounting about how to feed the world, given increasing demands for ...

Towards a Broader View of the Politics of Global Land Grab: Rethinking Land Issues, Reframing Resistance

The phrase 'global land grab' has become a catch-all framework to describe and analyze the current explosion of (trans)national commercial land transactions related to the production and sale of food and biofuels. Initially deployed and popularised by activist groups opposed to such transactions from an environmental and agrarian justice perspectives, the significance of the phrase has quickly ...

Unit Labor Costs in the Eurozone: The Competitiveness Debate Again

* This paper represents the views of the authors and not those of the Asian Development Bank, its executive directors, or the member countries that they represent. We are very grateful to our colleague Joao Farinha for encouraging us to write this paper and for his comments and suggestions. The usual disclaimer applies. Levy Institute scholars and conference participants. The purpose of the ser...

Book Review: Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil