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This article contributes to the current debate on the violation of human rights through the practice of green grabbing. The study reflects upon the situation of territorial insecurity and the struggle for territorial rights of the Akroá Gamela people, who live in the south of the State of Piauí, characterized by what is called here weak land governance. The indigenous territory studied does not have its homologation process finalized, which means that it does not officially exist, nor does it allow its boundaries to be added to most of the official databases of different governmental spheres. The region where the Akroá Gamela people are located is also situated within an area of advancing agricultural frontier known as Matopiba, located in the Cerrado area, the second largest biome in Brazil and South America. The main goal is to think on how green grabbing wickedly uses legal problems of communication between entities and governance to foster deforestation. To do so, we analyze two land regulation tools: the Rural and Environmental Registration (CAR) and the Vegetation Suppression Authorization (ASV), to understand this process of traditional population and peasants' land rights encroachment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Los Glaciares and Perito Francisco Pascasio Moreno National Parks are spaces with a strong regulatory system and nature in dispute. Taking this into account, this article analyzes the different laws and decrees that regulate the production of its limits, the conflicts between the National Parks and the province of Santa Cruz administrations, and the consequences for the development of activities by other land agents. Firstly, documentation was reviewed and, then, interviews and observation were conducted in each park. The obtained results allowed to indicate that the territorial lack of control resulting from normative ambiguity has diminished the exercise of institutional power and enabled the advancement of commercial frontiers typical of neoliberal conservation, primarily in Los Glaciares National Park. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El acaparamiento y extranjerización de tierras busca forzar un cambio en el uso y el modelo económico, pasando así de dinámicas de economías campesinas, étnicas o comunitarias a usos agroindustriales, legales o ilegales. Los actores que mueven estas dinámicas son tanto empresas transnacionales, como monopolios nacionales transnacionalizados que, contando con un entramado de poder político y económico se hacen a las tierras, muchas veces violando la ley o haciéndo trampas a la legalidad. Es el caso de la región de la Orinoquía y la Amazonía en el país.

Una parte de la literatura en los últimos años ha sugerido la idea de la promoción de la agricultura de contratos como una forma de amortiguar los efectos de desposesión derivados del acaparamiento de tierras. El objetivo del presente artículo es analizar las características y efectos de la agricultura de contrato en cinco cultivos seleccionados de Argentina. Este análisis se basa en una revisión de la literatura que se procesará en función de las siguientes dimensiones: los actores, las características del contrato, los impactos de los mismos en las partes contratantes, el rol del Estado y los conflictos entre las partes. La idea es mostrar algunos rasgos estilizados de la difusión de la agricultura de contratos en Argentina, de manera de arribar a alguna conclusión respecto a su relación con el acaparamiento de tierras.

The global interest in agricultural land, while taking center stage in the agrarian issue in the 21st century, is not a recent process. Differently from what is frequently mentioned in the discussions, the countries of the Center, in addition to being operators of the land foreignization in the Peripheral countries, are also targets of the process, not only in contemporary times. Thus, the objective of the article is to analyze the debate on the foreignization of agricultural land in the United States during the 1970s. We argue that addressing the American case is important, since it allows an increasingly understanding of land foreignization as a structural element of agrarian question and, consequently, the advance of capitalist relations in the countryside, not being present in just a historical moment or in certain regions. With the article it is possible to conclude that foreignization takes on unique characteristics in space and time and different impacts on multiple scales. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El siguiente texto se centra en comprender las características específicas del proceso de financiarización de la tierra en Uruguay, con foco en los capitales de gran escala. En función de un diseño cualitativo-cuantitativo que procesó diversas fuentes de información, se identificaron 37 capitales que abarcan un 11,6 % de la superficie productiva del país. Se identificaron 23 corporaciones privadas nacionales y extranjeras, siete fondos de inversión extranjeros y siete operadores de fideicomisos financieros. Estos capitales registran distintas modalidades de tenencia de la tierra (propietarios, arrendatarios y arrendadores), diverso origen del capital (estatal o privado), composición cerrada o abierta con acciones en bolsa y territorialización nacional o transnacional. El análisis evidenció el rol clave que juegan diversos instrumentos y actores financieros, los que en muchos casos invisibilizan a los acreedores y accionistas detrás de los grandes capitales que operan en el mercado de tierras.

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Agroecology research on the Global North is recognised by scholars in the Global South as technical and environmental, ignoring the political dimensions of agroecological movements and change. This article applies the epistemological traditions of critical Latin American agroecology to a Global North case study: England, in the United Kingdom. As the origin nation of capitalist industrial agriculture, the application of Latin American agroecological thought can tell us a lot about the dynamics of the English situation, colonialism, and the barriers to agroecological transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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From the qualitative analysis methodology, with bibliographic review procedures, documentary research and field research with semi-structured interviews, in this article, the mutations of the tenure system for the conformation of private land ownership in Piauí are discussed. Carried out by a continuous pact of the agribusiness economy surrounded by state interests, agrarian bourgeoisie and corporations, it was found that the legislation of land regularization in progress, is orchestrated / operationalized under a strictly mercantile / productive-financial perspective (intensified by transnationalization capital and capital market insertions) raising property as a legally secure commodity (asset) to capture the income of the most varied capitalist subjects. It is concluded that such architecture goes against the social function of the land and opposes all notions of ethnic land, land-environment, peasant land, among others, triggering deleterious impacts in the Brazilian field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Latin America, the covid-19 pandemic has deepened inequalities and perceptions of the socio-ecological crisis produced by the extractivist model that has dominated the region's economies for the last few decades. In Argentina, resistance to this model is led by indigenous peasant farmers organised in the face of land grabbing processes. We address the role of feminisms within these territorial proposals during the pandemic, analyzing the case of women in the National Indigenous Peasant Movement (MNCI). Using an ethnographic approach with grassroots activists and qualitative analysis of public statements, we reflect on their positioning as spokespersons for critical alternatives to neoliberalism, through strategic alliances with broad sectors of the Global South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La oleada de inversiones en tierras desatada por la escalada en el precio de los alimentos durante el siglo XXI fue paralela a la prioridad que la República Popular China asignó al control de tierras a fin de responder a la demanda de alimentos de su población, acentuada por su consolidación como un polo de acumulación global. Este trabajo adopta el enfoque de ecología-mundo de Jason Moore para indagar las implicancias del acaparamiento de tierras de China con finalidad alimentaria alrededor del mundo sobre el proceso de acumulación capitalista. Para ello, estudia sus inversiones en tierras en el exterior para la producción de soja, arroz y caña de azúcar, en el período 2000-2019, en base a información extraída de la base de datos Land Matrix. Se argumenta que el acaparamiento de tierras de China expresa e intensifica las contradicciones en el proceso de acumulación. Por un lado, supone una expansión de la participación del agronegocio chino en el sistema alimentario financiarizado para apropiarse de las tierras indispensables para responder a las necesidades alimentarias de sus trabajadores y su clase media. No obstante, por el otro, los altos costos que la crisis ambiental impone a esos proyectos no solo limitan su ejecución, sino también las posibilidades de una nueva expansión del capitalismo. El primer apartado caracteriza el acaparamiento de tierras a partir de las nociones de comida barata y hegemonía del capital financiero. Además, introduce el concepto de valor negativo. Tras ello, se desarrollan las razones de las inversiones en tierras de China en función de su posición como polo de acumulación global. La tercera sección se concentra en el acaparamiento de tierras de China para la producción de soja, arroz y caña de azúcar. Finalmente, se reflexiona sobre los límites ambientales a la acumulación de capital mediante el acaparamiento de tierras.

The focus of existing studies on land grabbing in Nigeria has been on acquisition by foreign investors for their socio-economic gain, usually supported by the national government. However, narratives on land grabbing by government through the Land Use Decree and the consequent resistance deployed by the indigenous landowners are scarce. The Accumulation by Dispossession theory and an exploratory design were combined with qualitative methods to gather data from 41 participants through a combination of key informant and in-depth interviews and focus groups in Ajoda New Town. Data were ethnographically and content analysed and findings revealed that locals resisted government activities consequent upon their exclusion from compensatory and resettlement activities promised by the government. Displacement from patrimonial inheritance led to resistance, though government claimed it discharged its financial and moral responsibilities. Resistance took the form of violent, economic and civil protests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Este trabajo busca avanzar en la discusión de la ley 1776 de 2016, por medio de la cual se crean las Zonas de Interés de Desarrollo Rural, Económico y Social (ZIDRES). Se argumenta que las Zidres responden a intereses, actores y pautas tanto a nivel global como a nivel local. A nivel global, las Zidres responden a las presiones globales por el acceso y control de nuevas tierras, ya sea para el avance del agronegocio o para fines especulativos. A nivel nacional, las Zidres reflejan las transformaciones que ha sufrido el campo colombiano desde la década del noventa, en donde se han privilegiado los sectores volcados hacia la producción agroexportadora, en detrimento de la economía campesina.

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En el norte argentino, desde fines del siglo XX se desarrollan procesos de expansión de la frontera agroindustrial y de implantación de proyectos de infraestructura e integración regional. Dicho avance ha sido posible a partir del progresivo acaparamiento de las tierras y otros bienes comunes (como el agua y los bosques) bajo el argumento del desarrollo regional. La consolidación del modelo del agronegocio en la región chaqueña ha sido acompañada por la pérdida de biodiversidad, el incremento en el uso de agroquímicos, la apropiación desigual y contaminación de los recursos hídricos, junto con una creciente conflictividad protagonizada por población indígena y de pequeños productores. Sustentado en un trabajo de vinculación de investigaciones precedentes y en curso, provenientes del campo disciplinar de la sociología y la antropología, en diálogo con la geografía crítica y la ecología política, el artículo se propone describir y analizar dos escenarios provinciales en los cuales esta heterogénea distribución, apropiación y uso de los territorios y la naturaleza cobra atención: las provincias del Chaco y de Salta. La estrategia metodológica combina la sistematización y análisis de fuentes documentales (medios periodísticos, datos estadísticos, legislación, informes de organismos estatales y/o privados, entre otros) con registros elaborados en los trabajos de campo (notas y entrevistas en profundidad con diversos actores). Se presentan las principales transformaciones territoriales y ambientales ocurridas en las primeras décadas del presente milenio, con especial énfasis en el problema del acceso al agua y su distribución desigual (en cantidad y calidad suficientes) entre los heterogéneos actores que disputan por su uso y apropiación. A tal fin, es imprescindible prestar atención a los procesos de más largo plazo que configuraron a la región chaqueña como espacio productivo, para comprender la trama histórica de despojos y acaparamientos que se ciernen sobre este territorio y sus poblaciones.

Este artículo reflexiona acerca del diseño metodológico desarrollado para afrontar los obstáculos que la escasez de información impone al estudio de las inversiones de China en infraestructura y su incidencia en el acaparamiento de tierras desde un enfoque de Economía Política Internacional. Tras exponer las principales limitaciones metodológicas que enfrentan los estudios en la temática, presenta los supuestos ontológicos y epistemológicos que, enmarcados en la corriente del realismo crítico, guiaron la selección de la estrategia metodológica y las técnicas de recolección de datos. La conclusión subraya los aportes que el estudio de múltiples casos seleccionados mediante un relevamiento de inversiones de China presenta para otras investigaciones.

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For some years now, China has been investing in mega infrastructure and natural resource projects in Latin America, and in Argentina in particular. These investments share the «north-south» characteristics that Argentina, as a dependent economy, has had over the years as a recipient of foreign investment. In addition to the multiple consequences that this type of relationship has in economic matters, they play a fundamental role in political ecology at the international level. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the environmental consequences of the relations between China and Argentina from the cases of land grabbing presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The "fever for land", a global territorial dispute that arises from the convergence of crises in 2008, had different consequences. One of them is the control of land by transnational capital, aimed at reproduction, appreciation, and protection of capital, production of commodities, production of agrofuels, or just speculation. This "race for land" culminated in the emergence and growth of the Acaparamiento de Tierras phenomenon or transnational capitalist appropriations of land, also known as Foreigners. In this scenario, Latin America has been one of the main destinations in the search for land for transnational capital. Brazil and Argentina are assessed in this article as the Latin American countries with the highest rate of Land Covering and Foreign by 2019. These countries are considered as the main Latin American exporters of commodities like soy and corn. Finally, China's role as a capitalist appropriator and seeking control of agricultural land in Brazil and Argentina are considered relevant. To sum up, the Sino-Brazilian and Sino-Argentine relations evaluated, the contracts reveals the control of land by China in Brazil and Argentina, and the degree of its performance in these countries as a collector and foreigner of Latin lands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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En este artículo se analiza el acaparamiento de tierras en Colombia, teniendo como base la fuerte demanda de productos agroindustriales, en vista del carácter multipropósito de estos. Para abordar esta problemática se utiliza el concepto de acumulación por desposesión, que sirve para analizar tendencias contemporáneas de acumulación de capital a través de una coerción extraeconómica apoyada por los Estados. En particular, se estudia la acumulación de tierras en Zonas Económicas Especiales (ZEE) a nivel global y en las Zonas de Desarrollo Rural, Económico y Social (ZIDRES) en Colombia. Para este análisis se han recogido fuentes secundarias e información institucional cuantitativa, relacionada con cultivos agroindustriales, contenida en reportes del Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural de Colombia. A partir del análisis de esta información se confirma que hay una expansión de estos cultivos en los lugares definidos como ZIDRES.

El artículo analiza las nuevas ocupaciones en tierras comunales del bosque seco de la costa norte peruana, en el contexto del desplazamiento forzado de familias comuneras debido a recientes fenómenos climáticos. Las comunidades del bosque seco tienen una historia que se remonta al siglo xvi y poseen derechos consuetudinarios sobre miles de hectáreas. Sin embargo, en la última década, el avance de empresas agroindustriales sobre estos territorios ha generado nuevas disputas. A partir del estudio de caso de la comunidad campesina de Catacaos y en base a un trabajo de campo que recoge observaciones y entrevistas en profundidad realizadas en diversos periodos entre los años 2013 y 2018, se muestran las técnicas territoriales desplegadas por las empresas para apropiarse de tierras comunales, así como el surgimiento de nuevas narrativas entre las familias comuneras, que buscan legitimar la negociación con la agroindustria y evidencian una pérdida progresiva de control comunal del territorio.

En este artículo se explora la dinámica de género del arrebato de tierras en el municipio de Atenco, Estado de México, para la construcción del nuevo aeropuerto internacional de la Ciudad de México. A partir de datos obtenidos mediante la sistematización de expedientes ejidales, la observación participante y las entrevistas a profundidad, se analiza la discriminación de género en la venta de tierras y las estrategias de las mujeres para enfrentarla. El artículo contribuye a estudiar la infraestructura de comunicaciones, un sector poco teorizado; a utilizar información documental, principalmente testimonial, y a visibilizar los efectos de género y el papel de las mujeres en la resistencia. Se muestra que los agentes del arrebato de tierras son el Estado, el capital y las estructuras comunitarias que reproducen la inequidad de género, para concentrar la riqueza y los privilegios políticos en manos predominantemente masculinas.

Capital has historically used land to guarantee the accumulation process. In the 21st century, characterized by unique global dynamics, a land acquires an increasingly market character and is transformed a financial asset. This global land rush results in a process that comes under territorial control. Unlike most of the researches propagated, territory control is not unique worldwide, as it is the result of general (global), particular (national / regional) and singular (local) dynamics in interaction. Based on the case study of Paraguay, the objective of this article is to debate the singularities of territory control in Paraguay, bringing the dynamics and contradictions of this process to the discussion. Through the survey and systematization of data made available by MAG and CAPECO and information collected in fieldwork and through interviews, we identified different singularities in the territory control material in Paraguay, as in the incipient presence of financial capital, extreme significance of regional capital and small performance by Chinese capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En este artículo, discutimos las condiciones actuales para la reproducción de la agroindustria de la caña de azúcar en Brasil en base en el análisis de la reciente adquisición de plantas del Grupo Equipav por parte de Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd. El contexto en el que se lleva a cabo esta adquisición se caracteriza por la expansión de ese sector de la agroindustria en el estado de São Paulo y otros que lo bordean, estimulados por la inflación en los precios de los productos agrícolas y minerales, incluido el precio del azúcar, en el proceso conocido como el boom de las commodities. Esta expansión estuvo marcada por haber alcanzado tierras de menor ingreso diferencial, como las que anteriormente ocupaban pastos, por la profundización de la mecanización y por la participación de diferentes formas de inversión extranjera. Tales cuestiones, enumeradas para nuestra reflexión, se desarrollan en una lectura sobre la crisis de la reproducción social capitalista actual y sobre el carácter que asumen tanto la financiarización como la contemporánea expansión del capital, el llamado acaparamiento de tierras. El artículo es el resultado de la investigación "Acaparamiento de tierras y cultivos flexibles: formas de inversión extranjera en la agroindustria de la caña de azúcar", desarrollada en conjunto con un equipo más amplio, que se ocupó de otros casos de inversión extranjera en la agroindustria de la caña de azúcar en Brasil además de eso. Para el análisis de este caso específico, el trabajo de campo se realizó en septiembre de 2018 en once municipios del estado de São Paulo, detallados abajo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this paper is to analyze the paths and contemporary dynamics of rural producers and landowners of Brazilian origin in Paraguay, seeking to understand their logic and the current situation in terms of land control and tenure. For this purpose, a bibliographic review, analysis of statistical data and semi-structured interviews were carried out with 56 producers/rural landowners of Brazilian origin who are or have been in Paraguay. As a result of the research, it was identified that there are currently at least five different movements: i) producers who arrived in the second half of the 20th century and who remain in the same region in Paraguay; ii) producers and/or descendants who arrived in the country in the same period and in the last few years they have moved inland; iii) actors who arrived in the country more recently, investing in agricultural production and/or land acquisition; iv) producers who chose to hold land in both Paraguay and Brazil; v) rural producers who, for different reasons, return to Brazil. Therefore, there are different paths, movements and dynamics of this social group in relation to land in Paraguay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aims to advance in the discussion of Law n. 1776 of 2016, which creates the Areas of Interest of Rural, Economic and Social Development (Zidres). It is argued that the Zidres respond to interests, actors and guidelines both globally and locally. At a global level, the Zidres are the result of pressures for access and control over new lands, for the development of agribusiness or for speculative objectives. At a national level, the Zidres are related to the transformations that the Colombian countryside has undergone since the 1990s, where sectors focused on agro-export production have been privileged, to the detriment of the peasant economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I analyze land grabbing in Colombia, from the point of view of an increasing demand of agroindustrial crops, given their multipurpose applications. For addressing such an issue I utilize the concept of accumulation by dispossession, which is useful for analyzing the contemporary trends of accumulation through extraeconomic coercion, heavily supported by the states. Particularly, I study the accumulation of lands in the Special Economic Zones in a global level and the Zones for Rural, Economic and Social Development in Colombia. For this analysis I collected secondary sources and quantitative institutional data on agroindustrial crops from the official reports of the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The analysis of this information confirms the prior expansion of such crops in ZIDRES zones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the new land occupations of the common land located in the dry forest, over the northern Peruvian coast, in the context of forced displacement due to extreme climatic events and severe flooding. Peruvian peasant communities in the area go back to the sixteenth century, having customary rights over thousands of acres. However, over the last decade, agribusinesses have expanded their industry over communal land, creating new conflicts. Through ethnographic fieldwork, observations, and in-depth interviews between the years 2013 and 2018, this paper analyzes the case study of the peasant community of Catacaos. It presents the different territorial techniques used by the agribusiness for taking control over common lands, as well as emergent new narratives amongst local families looking to legitimize negotiations with private actors, showing the progressive loss of control over common lands and communal territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En este texto se aborda el cultivo de caña de azúcar en Colombia y su relación con el acaparamiento y la concentración de la tierra. Con ese objetivo, incorporo el concepto de acumulación por desposesión, que contribuye de manera significativa a comprender la desigualdad de la distribución de la tierra. El análisis del problema involucra la utilización de métodos cuantitativos y espaciales para comparar zonas geográficas que tienen caña de azúcar con aquellos que no la tienen, en aras de determinar el impacto de este cultivo en relación con el acceso a la tierra en Colombia. Abstract: In this text, I discuss the cultivation of sugar cane cultivation in Colombia and its relation to land grabbing and land concentration. Fur such purpose I use the concept of accumulation by dispossession, which contributes significantly to understand the inequality of land distribution in Colombia. The analysis of the problem involves quantitative and spatial methods for comparing geographical areas that have Sugarcane crops with those that do not have them, in order to determine the impact of such crop on land access in Colombia. Keywords: land concentration, land grabbing, accumulation by dispossession, biofuel, sugar cane.

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The objective of this article is to present a systematization of some of the information collected in field work in the macroregion called Matopiba, held between June 13 and 23, 2018. From the significant amount of data and perspectives from the visits, we limited ourselves to identify the information related to the daily life of the peasant communities present, specifically, in the Intermediate Region of Piauí's Southwest. The results of this systematization are presented in two axes, composed by analyzes of the verticalities and horizontalities in the relationship between the environmentalism of the poor and the global land grabbing, consequential phenomena of the advance of the globalized agribusiness in the region. In this way, based on the analysis of this article, we intend to underline how the local peasant resistance develops against the human and environmental impacts resulting from the agribusiness investments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper grasps an understanding of the agricultural frontier which thinks of it as historically constituted and able to have its contents modified by the overall changes in society. Thus, it returns to formulations over the pioneer front made by the traditional Geography and by the critical Geography. Afterwards, we deal with the particularities of the Brazilian national formation, calling attention to the importance of the university and of science in the process and in the characterization of colonization in each historical moment. Finally, we focus the MATOPIBA region, in North and Northeast Brazil, bringing three different examples of space production forms that can reveal overall changes in the way to socially relate with the agricultural frontier. Recent researches in the MATOPIBA region, took as the final agricultural frontier within Brazil, show deforestation already done by modern machinery and also a high level of slave analogous labor incidence. Moreover, recent actions by transnational state dealers suggest the presence of finance capital, in the past unlike to immobilize itself in land acquisitions. What could seem as a search for absolute and relative surplus vale extraction in new sights can however be equally grasped as over-accumulated fictitious capitals invested as a manner to produce the appearance of solid portfolios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes land grabbing in Matopiba region. Land grabbing is understood as the appropriation of land for capital accumulation in the face of the neoliberal project crises (food, energy, environmental and financial). Land appropriation in Matopiba is a trans-scalar relation of power and exposes the contradictions between corporative and peasant logic of use of the Cerrados. Information was obtained in field works (between 2015 and 2018), with visits to peasant communities, public institutions, representatives of civil society and agricultural companies, as well as data collection in specialized newspapers and magazines, scientific articles and reports. In general, land is illegally appropriated by companies controlled by international financial capital, with the enclosure of vacant land, expropriation of local communities, and increased of the conflicts and environmental damage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Colombia's 2011 Victims' and Land Restitution Law (the Victims' Law) seeks to restore hundreds of thousands of hectares of land to displaced conflict victims. Forced displacement in Colombia has largely been understood through a focus on violent land-grabbing dynamics, through which armed actors (typically paramilitary forces) displaced rural populations to use the stolen land for large capitalist ventures. Through a focus on land restitution in Colombia's Magdalena Medio region, I detail the precise legal measures used to prosecute these legacies of land grabbing, as well as the controversy arising when those powerful legal measures are trained on relatively small, good faith owners of once-dispossessed land. This article examines land restitution as an important means of undoing violent patterns of land concentration, yet cautions against presupposing that all patterns of violent displacement can be understood through a land-grabbing analytic. Those who come to own land in the wake of conflict may have directly used violent means or, contrarily, have acquired land without direct or indirect recourse to violence. How land restitution programs detect and manage these distinctions bears upon post-conflict legal land regimes' precarious capacity to either ameliorate, or potentially exacerbate, violent legacies of forced displacement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El acaparamiento de tierras (land grabbing) refiere al proceso de adquisiciones a gran escala de tierras agrícolas en otros estados, desatado en el contexto de la convergencia de crisis internacionales —alimentaria, energética, financiera y climática— de 2008. Este artículo analiza las razones que convirtieron al acaparamiento de tierras en un fenómeno global, irreductible a la lógica Norte-Sur. Adicionalmente, indaga sus implicaciones sobre la posición internacional y definición del Sur Global. En base al marxismo ecológico, se argumenta que el acaparamiento de tierras se enraíza en la dinámica capitalista que convierte a la tierra en esencial para la acumulación. La causa de ello es que representa una respuesta a la redefinición del poder global, con nuevos actores compitiendo por el acceso a bienes naturales escasos en un contexto de crisis múltiples. Al mismo tiempo, la participación de grandes poderes del Sur en este proceso contribuye a reproducir dentro del Sur Global patrones de explotación y despojo de la naturaleza similares a las del Norte. Para ello se estudia el proyecto de China en Xai-Xai, Mozambique.