Land Grab

Land Grab is an academic concept in urban political ecology denoting a process of large-scale land acquisition by powerful state or corporate actors, often through coercive or opaque mechanisms, that displaces local communities and reconfigures urban space for speculative or extractive purposes.

248

Publications

22.5K

Citations

346

Authors

201

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

80

Variants

Large-scale Land Acquisition

Authors

346

  1. SM
    Saturnino M. Borras

    Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

    11 publications · 5.6K citations

    11

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  2. JC
    Jennifer C. Franco

    China Agricultural University, China

    7 publications · 2.6K citations

    7

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  3. WW
    Wendy Wolford

    Cornell University, United States

    6 publications · 3.2K citations

    6

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  4. RH
    Ruth Hall

    University of the Western Cape, South Africa

    6 publications · 3.6K citations

    6

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  5. IS
    Ian Scoones

    University of Sussex, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 3.2K citations

    5

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Venues

  1. The Journal of Peasant Studies

    41 publications · 8.9K citations

    35

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  2. Development and Change

    14 publications · 1.5K citations

    14

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  3. Globalizations

    16 publications · 1.1K citations

    14

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  4. Land Use Policy

    11 publications · 681 citations

    11

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  5. Geoforum

    9 publications · 680 citations

    9

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