Grassroots voices special forum: resisting land grabs and building alternatives

Sylvia Kay; Boaventura Monjane; Martha Jane Robbins; Yukari Sekine

doi:10.1080/03066150.2025.2555603

Grassroots voices special forum: resisting land grabs and building alternatives

Sylvia Kay
, Boaventura Monjane
, Martha Jane Robbins^*
, Yukari Sekine

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Transnational Institute (TNI)
University of the Western Cape

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Contemporary land grabbing extends far beyond agriculture to encompass forests, water sources, rivers, oceans, and entire territories. Communities and movements continue to resist via food sovereignty, agroecology, calls for reparations, political education, and building cross-sectoral, intersectional and multi-scalar movements against land grabs. The second International Conference for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD+20) is a politically significant moment to achieve real progress towards the realization of the right to land and territories. This paper reflects on these issues through the contributions of movement leaders and allies to the Grassroots Voices special forum on land grabbing.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1682-1691
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Peasant Studies
Volume	52
Issue number	7
Early online date	8 Oct 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2025.2555603
Publication status	Published - 2025

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