'Capital grabs back': towards a global research agenda on the land grabbing-land reform/restitution nexus
Sommerville Melanie / Enrique C. Ballivián / George T. Mudimu / Mnqobi NgubaneExterne Publikationen (2025)
in: Journal of Peasant studies, first published 28.07.2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2025.2528863
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Capital is grabbing back land allocated through diverse national land reform and landrestitution programmes globally. This article critically analyses this trend, which has so far received insufficient attention from land grab scholars. Drawing from independent research in South Africa, Bolivia, Canada, and Zimbabwe, we define a future research agenda investigating the capital segments and grabbing mechanisms involved as well as the factors that encourage or retard capital in grabbing back redistributed and restituted lands. We point to the need for further research into the land grabbing-land reform/restitution nexus in different geographic contexts and its implications for future land and agrarian struggles.