Commons grabbing and agribusiness: Violence, resistance and social mobilization
Dell'Angelo, Jampel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Navas Obando, Grettel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Witteman, Marga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
D'Alisa, Giacomo (University of Coimbra. Center for Social studies (Portugal))
Scheidel, Arnim (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Temper, Leah (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)

Data:	2021
Resum:	The recent phenomenon of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) is associated with what has been described as a global agrarian transition. New forms of land exploitation and concentration have led to profound socio-environmental transformations of rural production systems in Latin America, South-East Asia and Sub Saharan Africa. Scholars have pointed out that the expansion of transnational land investments is often associated with detrimental social outcomes, has negative environmental impacts and can represent a potential impediment to the achievement of many SDGs. In this paper, our primary concern is on the mounting evidence that LSLAs preferentially target the commons, in the process altering long-standing customary resource governance systems. While it has been shown that in many instances of commons grabbing associated with LSLAs, different types of social conflict emerge, it is less clear what forms of social mobilization and organized collective re-actions are taking place to defend the commons and contest such processes of dispossession and enclosure. The main aim of this contribution is to fill this gap by synthesizing and describing the different typologies of social mobilization and collective re-actions that emerge as a result of commons grabbing associated with the transnational expansion of the agribusiness frontier. In order to do this our research synthesizes information from the Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas) shedding light on some of the key characteristics associated with the different forms and dynamics of social mobilization that are organized in reaction to agribusiness-related commons grabbing.
Ajuts:	European Commission 861509 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/BP-00023 European Commission 695446
Nota:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Large-scale land acquisitions ; Social mobilization ; Violence ; Land grabbing ; Commons grabbing ; Environmental conflicts
Publicat a:	Ecological economics, Vol. 184 (June 2021) , art. 107004, ISSN 0921-8009

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107004

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