ABSTRACT
The concept of landgrabbing gained attention in international policy-making, academic, and social movement circles after the financial crisis of 2007–2008 generated an increased demand for food and agrofuels by countries in the Global North (FAO, 2012; Grain, 2008). The “global rush for land,” exacerbated by neoliberal policies and speculative trends, has translated into massive transactions of land, often involving foreign capital, in different countries in the Global South (Borras and Franco, 2012). These new dynamics have made evident the need to understand the multiscalar forces behind dramatic shifts in land use, tenure, and ownership; as well as their socio-environmental consequences. This seems even more urgent as its effects over lived ecologies have proven devastating.
