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1. Land Grabbing and Global Governance

   Edited by Matias E. Margulis, Nora McKeon, Saturnino Borras Jr.

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   While land grabbing per se is not a new phenomenon having historical precedents in the eras of imperialism, the character, scale, pace, orientation and key drivers of the recent wave of land grabs is a distinct historical event closely tied to the changing dynamics of the global agri-food, feed and...

   To Be Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Market-Led Agrarian Reform

   Edited by Saturnino Borras Jr., Cristóbal Kay, Edward Lahiff

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   Three-fourths of the world’s poor are rural poor. Most of the rural poor remain dependent on land-based livelihoods for their incomes and reproduction despite significant livelihood diversification in recent years. Land issue remains critical to any development discourse today. Market-led agrarian...

   Published May 5th 2011 by Routledge
3. The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change

   Edited by Saturnino Borras Jr., Philip McMichael, Ian Scoones

   Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

   This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what?...

   Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
4. Critical Perspectives in Rural Development Studies

   Edited by Saturnino Borras Jr.

   Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

   Agrarian transformations within and across countries have been significantly and dynamically altered during the past few decades compared to previous eras, provoking a variety of reactions from rural poor communities worldwide. The recent convergence of various crises – financial, food, energy and...

   Published July 6th 2010 by Routledge
5. Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization

   Perspectives from Developing and Transition Countries

   By A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Cristóbal Kay

   Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

   A host of internationally eminent scholars are brought together here to explore the structural causes of rural poverty and income inequality, as well as the processes of social exclusion and political subordination encountered by the peasantry and rural workers across a wide range of countries...

   Published February 18th 2009 by Routledge