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Defining land grabs

How is farmland speculation harmful?
What are four key themes of beyond land grabs?
What is contract farming?
What are types of dispossession and control beyond “classic” agricultural land grabs?
What is the role between financialization and land grabs?
How is colonialism associated with land grabs in Brazil?
What is water grabbing?
Is land grabs only agriculture?
What is control grabbing?
What are legal arguments /contexts to defend land from communities?
What is the process by which people get affected by land grabs?
Why are land grabs occurring and when have they sparked?
What is the sugar commodity frontier? Why has that contributed to contract farming? What negative effects does this have?
Why might it be good to frame “beyond land grabs.”
Who are the people displacing /living in the former lands of the traditional and indigenous peoples? Who are smallholders?
What is the historical context to land grabs?
Why do people engage in land grabs?
What are the things that agribusiness obtains beyond the farmland itself (labor, etc.)?
What is financialization of land?
How could this match with post-development critiques, degrowth frameworks, and environmental justice networks? #intersection
What is the role of the World Bank and similar institutions in land rights struggles?
Is land grabs just related to the dispossession of land?
Are local populations actually displaced or negatively affected?
How do colonists shape the definition of property and create the state and market relations of property from public land in the Brazilian Amazon?
Why is the quantification of land grabs important? What are the limitations?
Is it always transnational companies? What about domestic actors?
What is green grabbing?
What is property?
What are the factors within land grabs that affect positively or negatively the outcome? - wage employment etc
What is expulsion by pollution?
How is land grabs violence against Indigenous ways of knowing and relating to Nature?
How does public land or community land become converted to private property?
How does land grabs relate to food apartheid and land apartheid in urban areas?
What is the range of actors involved?
Why do investors invest in farmland?
How is land a site of complex power relations?
What are primitive accumulation and accumulation by dispossession?
How is dispossession of land relived even after eviction / moving to the city?
Is land grabs a tool of the state? How does it rleate to capitalism?
How is land used and for what purpose?
What are colonist communities?
What is the role between financialization and land grabs?
What are the concepts of "free land, empty land, arable land" and how is it used to justify dispossession and destroy local knowledge? #question
What is the long history of [[land grabs]]?
Are land grabs actually illegal?
what is happening, where and when, who is involved, how much land is involved, and how many people are being expelled from their land? How do we de!ne [[land grabs]]? What do we count? How do we count? How do we interpret our sources? #question
[[question]]: how does[[ women's rights]] intersect with [[land grabs]]?
What are network companies and the institutions that purchase the land?
How does contract farming relate to exploitation?
Which regions are most affected by land grabs?
What’s the danger of “sustainability transitions”?
What is wage labor and land grabs?
How do indigenous and traditioanl communtieis think about their land? How woudl they want reparations for them?
What is land?
How is land sold within financial markets?
What are labor regimes?
(2) How do ^^we count land deals ^^and how do we ^^measure the extent ^^of the phe- nomenon? #question
Why should we be thinking about land more when thinking about climate change? #question How might that be so much more important for the communities of the sites of resource extraction itself?

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Is Harvard involved in any Green Grabbing?
Are Harvard’s land grabs actually the fault of Harvard? Did they buy already stolen land or did they evict people after purchasing the land?
how does international human rights law differ, and regional law in regards to [[Harvard]]'s [[land grabs]]? #question
How can sustinability transitions be undertook without exploitation? #question ? Can [[Harvard]] invest in __any land__ or just particularly unethical ones? Is there a way to own land ethically?
How do we understand [[Harvard]]'s [[land grabs]] in relation to these colonist communities? Has [[Harvard] been mistreating its immigrant "colonist" communities? Are Emilio, Cristian, Altamiran with the "colonist" communities or the traditional communities? Who should the land be returned to if there are already people settled there who weren't the ones who stole the land?

What are land grabs?
Definition
What motivates land grabs
Speculation
Resource appreciation
How they’re harmful
What is the history of land grabs?
Colonialism, capitalism

What are the types of land grabs?
Land Dispossession
Expulsion by pollution
Cultural dispossession
Control grabbing
Contract farming
Are land grabs only agriculture?
How does it intersect iwth other issues?
What motivates land grabs
Speculation
Resource appreciation
How they’re harmful
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How do we count land deals and how do we measure the extent of them?
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What is the range of actors involved in land grabs? What is the role of foreign and domestic capital?
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What is the long history of land grabs?
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What is the international law used within land grabs?
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what is happening, where and when, who is involved, how much land is involved, and how many people are being expelled from their land? How do we de!ne land grab? What do we count? How do we count? How do we interpret our sources? #question
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Are Harvard's land grabs actually the fault of Harvard? Like, did they buy already people evicted land or did they buy the land and then evict people? The amount of injustice there matters (fucked up either way)
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Definition:
What are land grabs?
Definition
What motivates land grabs
Speculation
Resource appreciation
How they’re harmful
What is the history of land grabs?
Colonialism, capitalism

What are the types of land grabs?
Land Dispossession
Expulsion by pollution
Cultural dispossession
Control grabbing
Contract farming
Are land grabs only agriculture?
How does it intersect iwth other issues?
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