"In many cases land leases are issued by the administrative village, while the land belonged to the natural village in the past. It is like the ownership rights to land have been silently stolen from the natural village and vested in a level higher. [...] Yet, to date there are not many...

During processes of economic reform and transition, decision-makers are facing questions with potential far-reaching consequences, such as what institutions should be established, how to determine the relationship between state and market, and in what time frame and order. Against this...

This paper examines China’s overseas land-based investments in agriculture. Our hypothesis is that – despite extensive media, NGO and scholarly attention to China’s global resource-seeking activities – the discourse on Chinese ‘land grabs’ is insufficiently informed by the available...

In recent years, China’s rapid economic growth has been coupled with a rising demand for natural resources. Great international concern has arisen over China’s land acquisitions for agricultural and biofuel production, pejoratively called “land grabbing”. Contrarily, when looking at...