Rights of nature, an ornamental legal framework: water extractivism and backbone rivers with rights in Colombia [0.03%]
自然权利，一个装饰性的法律框架：哥伦比亚的水资源开采与具有权利的河流骨干系统
María Ximena González-Serrano
María Ximena González-Serrano
Rivers have been at the centre of judicialization processes that have forged post-human legal experiments, gaining new rights, personhood, and legal agency. This article interrogates river rights jurisprudence through discourse analysis and...
Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice [0.03%]
河乡邻里关系：水正义的跨地方斗争中的社会自然共管政治生态学
Rutgerd Boelens,Arturo Escobar,Karen Bakker et al.
Rutgerd Boelens et al.
Mega-damming, pollution and depletion endanger rivers worldwide. Meanwhile, modernist imaginaries of ordering 'unruly waters and humans' have become cornerstones of hydraulic-bureaucratic and capitalist development. They separate hydro/soci...
Reflecting on the Plantationocene: the political economy of sugarcane plantations in Guangxi, China [0.03%]
从甘蔗种植园的政治经济再思考 plantationocene —论中国广西的糖料作物种植园
Chunyu Wang,Yunan Xu
Chunyu Wang
This paper reflects on the concept of the Plantationocene through an analysis of sugarcane plantations in Guangxi province, China. It argues that although these plantations are owned and operated by local villagers, they are de facto contro...
Rural precarity: relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin [0.03%]
农业工业边缘地带的农村不稳定性：关系自主性、生态依存性和政治麻痹状态
Inge-Merete Hougaard
Inge-Merete Hougaard
Across the world, economic interests and state-making interventions have converged in dispossessing rural and urban dwellers. Drawing on literature on rural transformation, precarity, and life after dispossession, this paper explores how li...
Helen Anne Curry
Helen Anne Curry
Since the 1970s 'hybrid seeds' have been linked to many perceived perils of industrialized agriculture. This essay revisits the scholarship that helped produce a dominant critical assessment of hybrid seeds, situating its emergence in a ser...
Are civil-law notaries rent-seeking monopolists or essential market intermediaries? Endogenous development of a property rights institution in Mexico [0.03%]
民事公证人是垄断寻租者还是必不可少的市场中介？墨西哥一种产权制度的内生发展案例研究
Paavo Monkkonen
Paavo Monkkonen
As the fourth contribution in the 'Land' section, this paper forms a research 'diptych' with the next paper by Levy. Whereas she focuses on the notarial institution in mid-nineteenth century Mexico, this contribution examines it in a contem...
Differentiated childhoods: impacts of rural labor migration on left-behind children in China [0.03%]
不同的童年：中国农村劳动力迁移对留守儿童的影响
Ye Jingzhong,Pan Lu
Ye Jingzhong
This article draws on data from research that includes 400 children who lived separately from their migrant parents in 10 rural communities in China, to explore the deep impacts of rural parents' migration on the care-giving and nurturing o...
Is international agricultural research a global public good? The case of rice biofortification [0.03%]
国际农业研究真的是全球公共品吗？以水稻生物强化为例
Sally Brooks
Sally Brooks
The status of international agricultural research as a global public good (GPG) has been widely accepted since the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. While the term was not used at the time of its creation, the Consultative Group on I...
From famine to food crisis: what history can teach us about local and global subsistence crises [0.03%]
从饥荒到粮食危机——历史能教给我们的关于生存危机的本地及全球视角的东西
Eric Vanhaute
Eric Vanhaute
The number of famine prone regions in the world has been shrinking for centuries. It is currently mainly limited to sub-Saharan Africa. Yet the impact of endemic hunger has not declined and the early twenty-first century seems to be faced w...
The Campesino-to-Campesino agroecology movement of ANAP in Cuba: social process methodology in the construction of sustainable peasant agriculture and food sovereignty [0.03%]
古巴ANAP的农民到农民的生态农业运动：在可持续小农农业和粮食主权构建中的社会过程方法学
Peter Michael Rosset,Braulio Machín Sosa,Adilén María Roque Jaime et al.
Peter Michael Rosset et al.
Agroecology has played a key role in helping Cuba survive the crisis caused by the collapse of the socialist bloc in Europe and the tightening of the US trade embargo. Cuban peasants have been able to boost food production without scarce an...