Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean

Borras, Saturnino M.; Franco, Jennifer C.; Gómez, Sergio; Kay, Cristóbal; Spoor, Max

doi:10.1080/03066150.2012.679931

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“…At the national level, Chapter 4's analysis of the state in Andean countries reveals the strong role of the recentralization of environmental governance as a key strategy of postneoliberal states in order to subsidize the accomplishment of their social policies. Chapter 5 offers several examples in which elite groups try to ensure their access to land and natural resources through different means (see also Otero, 2010;Borras et al, 2012;Harstaad, 2012). In some other cases, however, different governmental levels may compete for control of the decision-making process.…”

Section: Institutional Change and Adaptationmentioning

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Introduction: Environment and Society in Contemporary Latin America

Castro¹,

Hogenboom²,

Baud³

2016

Environmental Governance in Latin America

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Section: Institutional Change and Adaptationmentioning

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Introduction: Environment and Society in Contemporary Latin America

Castro¹,

Hogenboom²,

Baud³

2016

Environmental Governance in Latin America

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“…Second, they were expelled from river margins and islands and restricted in their access to natural resources due to the creation of a PA as a compensation for the project's environmental impacts in the 1990s. The negative social impacts of the PA's creation have been documented in other parts of Brazil (see a review in NUPAUB 2011, Anaya and Souza 2014) and the world (Dowie 2011), and is considered by some authors as a particular form of land grabbing (Borras et al 2012, Messerli et al 2013): "green grabbing," the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends (Fairhead et al 2012). Its most pervasive consequence is to generate conservation refugees, as summarized https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss1/art8/ by Dowie (2011).…”

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Protected areas and territorial exclusion of traditional communities: analyzing the social impacts of environmental compensation strategies in Brazil

Anaya¹,

Espírito-Santo²

2018

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ABSTRACT. The creation of the protected areas (PAs) of restricted use dominates conservation policies throughout the world and reflects the western idea of separation between pristine nature and human-modified habitats. However, this conservation strategy has caused the proliferation of environmental conflicts involving territorial rights of traditional peoples and local communities throughout the world. Our study aims to analyze the impacts of the creation of a system of PAs of restricted use on the livelihoods and well-being of traditional communities in the north of Minas Gerais State, in Brazil. We analyzed the conflicts emerging in the study region from the perspective of the environmental justice paradigm. We used the extended-case method, conducting fieldwork to observe and register the movements of social resistance of traditional communities, and interviews with key stakeholders. Between 1970Between -1990, the Jaíba irrigation project was implemented in the north of Minas Gerais and, to compensate for the huge environmental impact of the project, several PAs of restricted use were created, disregarding the traditional peoples that inhabited the region. As a consequence, these populations were expelled from their territories without compensation or resettlement, causing severe restrictions to their traditional livelihoods and well-being, including access to natural resources such as water, fisheries and timber, and nontimber products, jeopardizing their food security, cultural identity, and social integrity. They initiated the "Movement of the People Cornered by Parks," lately evolving to "Vazanteiros in Movement," incorporating elements of the environmental arena to politically dispute alternative conservation projects. Sustainable development policies that incorporate the "economy of repair," expressed as environmental compensation strategies, are intrinsically contradictory and inappropriate from the perspective of environmental justice. Inclusive conservation planning must account for historical, social, and cultural contexts of the affected region and prioritize the preservation of rights and well-being of local communities.

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“…Without at least modest answers to such questions, merely advocating "winwin" land deals may not result in an actual "win-win" situation. Land grabbing also highlighted as "control grabbing", which presages a grasping ability to control land and the accompanying basic resources to reap benefit from holding such resources (Peluso and Lund, 2011;Borras et al, 2012b). This outcome is one of the manifestations of control grabbing, implying seizure of large 5 tracts of agriculturally sound land, land grab, water grab/seizure of water (re)sources (Ganho 2011;Kay and Franco 2012) and green grabs/seizure of resources for the purpose of the natural environment (Fairhead et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Land acquisition in Latin America and the Caribbean is characterised by its intraregional nature, i.e., many of the companies that acquired land are Latin-based and are allied with central state and international capital sources (Borras et al, 2012b). Consequently, it is important to proceed broadly from the (food)-crisis-centred definition of land grabbing, but it is also important not to define it too broadly.…”

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Transnational land deals: Towards an inclusive land governance framework

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The literature on global land deals or land acquisition has extensively described the possible drivers, trajectories, and their impacts. In addition, the concept of a "land grab" per se is heavily contested and viewed as a work in progress. Many have argued on the topic of inclusive land deals without addressing which groups of stakeholders are vested with particular powers and interests in the deals. After reviewing this phenomena in contemporary global land deals and the stakeholder theory of management developed in the 1980s, this paper proposes a conceptual land deal framework. Accordingly, the actors in land deals are characterised and disaggregated into 2 seven generic groups, i.e., "inactive", "discretionary", "exigent", "dominant", "dangerous", "dependent", and "definitive". The paper concluded that to address the governance challenges in land deals, a need exists to resolve conceptualisation deficiencies related to inclusive land deal frameworks. Thus, this work suggests that extending the stakeholder theory of management to the global governance of transnational land acquisition can significantly aid in resolving conceptualisation limitations for inclusive transnational land deals. Hence, a new inclusive land deal framework was developed that attempts to integrate the biophysical environment, stakeholders, governance, and institutions. Furthermore, this paper recommends that contextualisation of the suggested "land deal power-interest clustering (LD-PIC)" and "legitimacy-interest-power (LIP)" frameworks to those already signed and ongoing land deals using real-world data is a timely matter.

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Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean

Cited by 434 publications

References 41 publications

Introduction: Environment and Society in Contemporary Latin America

Introduction: Environment and Society in Contemporary Latin America

Protected areas and territorial exclusion of traditional communities: analyzing the social impacts of environmental compensation strategies in Brazil

Transnational land deals: Towards an inclusive land governance framework

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