Resources (1-3 of 3)

1. Local food, farmland, and urban development: A case of land grabbing North American style

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Elizabeth Ann Smythe

   This article examines emerging forms of investment and land speculation and their implications for local food movements in urban areas. These investment involve  purchases of large tracts of...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7686/?v=1

2. LGAR - Land grabs, the agrarian question and the corporate food regime

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi

   Over the last decade civil society organizations and activist-scholars have pointed to “land grabbing” as one of the central issues to have emerged in the world food system. In particular, land...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7665/?v=1

3. LGAR - SYNTHESIS - Land grabbing: New actors in a longstanding process

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Isaac Lawther

   Land is a complex component of the global food system. There is no one definitive function of land; we can stand on it, build on it, grow food on it, extract from it, divide it, and identify with...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7667/?v=1