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Under certain circumstances, land titling, property regime changes, and land‐use conversions yield substantial profits. Yet few people possess the wealth, knowledge, and networks to benefit from these procedures. In the Yucatán Peninsula, a region recently targeted as a prominent investment location by the Mexican national government (mainly with the “Tren Maya” megaproject) and the private capital, forestlands collectively owned as ejidos by Mayan peasants are on the trend to complete privatization.
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While the potential contribution of a nationally implemented program for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) to developing countries’ budgets remains as yet obscure, two general concerns are that REDD+ will i) incentivize land grabbing and ii) remain financially uncompetitive against current commercial forest uses.
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Land Use Policy Volume 99
Peer-reviewed publication
The Brazilian Amazon has 49.8 million hectares (Mha) of public forestlands not allocated by the federal or state governments to a specific tenure status: the so called undesignated public forests (UPF). Historically, these public forests have been vulnerable to land grabbers and land speculation. Here, we highlighted the imminent threat in UPF by quantifying their accumulated deforestation, all of which is illegal, for the period 1997–2018 and the potential illegal occupation.
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Peer-reviewed publication
Brazil has become an agricultural powerhouse, producing roughly 30 % of the world’s soy and 15 % of its beef by 2013 – yet historically much of that growth has come at the expense of its native ecosystems. Since 1985, pastures and croplands have replaced nearly 65 Mha of forests and savannas in the legal Amazon. A growing body of work suggests that this paradigm of horizontal expansion of agriculture over ecosystems is outdated and brings negative social and environmental outcomes.
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Tierra,Propiedad y Poder(*)
IPDRS(**)
El derecho a la propiedad de la tierra es un tema antiguo en las agendas sociales que, lejos de simplificarse, se ha ido haciendo cada vez más complejo por una intricada trama de correlaciones con intereses económicos en las estructuras de propiedad, los modelos de desarrollo vigentes, las tensiones entre diferentes concepciones culturales de apropiación, manejo y valores simbólicos de la tierra y la enorme, creciente presión de hábitos de consumo y demanda por la expansión de las fronteras agrícolas.
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International Conventions or Treaties
Con la soja al cuello reúne información rigurosa y datos concretos sobre lo que implica que el 94% de las tierras cultivables en Paraguay estén ocupadas por cultivos para la exportación.
Los artículos apunta a evaluar el avance del agronegocio desde la asunción de Horacio Cartes a la presidencia. La publicación agrupa así una serie de artículos cuyas temáticas intentan dar cuenta de la globalidad de la problemática.
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Food First Backgrounder, Spring 2014, Vol. 20, No. 1
Introduction: Land, Race and the Agrarian Crisis
The disastrous effects of widespread land grabbing and land concentration sweeping the globe do not affect all farmers equally. The degree of vulnerability to these threats is highest for smallholders, women and people of color—the ones who grow, harvest, process and prepare most of the world’s food.
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