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PROF Carlos Oya's Outputs (6)

Global Land Grabs: historical processes, theoretical and methodological implications and current trajectories (2013)
Journal Article
Edelman, M., Oya, C., & Borras, S. M. (2013). Global Land Grabs: historical processes, theoretical and methodological implications and current trajectories. Third World Quarterly, 34(9), 1517-1531. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2013.850190

Scholars, practitioners and activists generally agree that investor interest in land has climbed sharply, although they differ about what to call this phenomenon and how to analyse it. This introduction discusses several contested definitional, conce... Read More about Global Land Grabs: historical processes, theoretical and methodological implications and current trajectories.

The Land Rush and Classic Agrarian Questions of Capital and Labour: a systematic scoping review of the socioeconomic impact of land grabs in Africa (2013)
Journal Article
Oya, C. (2013). The Land Rush and Classic Agrarian Questions of Capital and Labour: a systematic scoping review of the socioeconomic impact of land grabs in Africa. Third World Quarterly, 34(9), 1532-1557. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2013.843855

This paper has two main objectives. First, to address the problematic of the socioeconomic impact of land deals in sub-Saharan Africa by looking at what we know from the available literature so far, namely what has been claimed and how much research... Read More about The Land Rush and Classic Agrarian Questions of Capital and Labour: a systematic scoping review of the socioeconomic impact of land grabs in Africa.