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1. LGAR - Fixing the land: The role of knowledge in building new models for rural development

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Wendy Wolford

   Over the past five years, the term “land grab” has made international headlines. First coined by activists documenting the rise in media reports about displacements caused by the sale or transfer...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7664/?v=1

2. LGAR - Land grabs and agrarian reform

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis

   One of the key responses to the global food crisis that hit the headlines in 2008 was a significant change in land ownership in many countries as a result of large-scale land acquisitions carried...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7663/?v=1

3. LGAR - Territorial restructuring and resistance in the Americas

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Zoe Brent

   Over the last thirty years, social movements for agrarian reform have struggled to keep up with the profound changes in the structures of land and agricultural production sweeping the continent. In...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7666/?v=1