Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis

New publication by Jun Borras and Jennifer Franco

The article appears in the Journal of Agrarian Change Vol. 12 No. 1, January 2012

Abstract

‘Land grab’ has become a catch-all phrase to refer to the current explosion of (trans)national commercial land transactions mainly revolving around the production and export of food, animal feed, biofuels, timber and minerals.Two key dimensions of the current land grab – namely, the politics of changes in land use and property relations change (and the links between them) – are not sufficiently explored in the current literature.We attempt to address this gap by offering a preliminary analysis through an analytical approach that suggests some typologies as a step towards a fuller and better understanding of the politics of global land grabbing.

Jun Borras is Associate Professor of Rural Development Studies at ISS