Matias E. Margulis

TL;DR: Land grabbing has emerged as a significant issue in contemporary global governance that cuts across the fields of development, investment, food security, and security, among others as mentioned in this paper and is facilitated by ever greater flows of capital, goods, and ideas across borders, and these flows occur through axes of power that are far more polycentric than the North-South imperialist tradition.

TL;DR: This article reviewed recent research on contemporary transformations of global land governance and showed how changes in global governance have facilitated and responded to radical revalorizations of land, together driving the intensified competition and struggles over land observed in many other contributions to this special issue.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that diverging rules and norms across the elemental regimes of agriculture and food, international trade, and human rights over the appropriate role of states and markets in addressing food insecurity are a major source of transnational political conflict.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that transnational land governance is indicative of emerging shifts in the practice of governance of global affairs, particularly with regard to North-South relations, and what do these developments in transnational governance mean for regulating land grabbing.

TL;DR: The FAO Voluntary guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests as mentioned in this paper have been proposed as a global land governance framework for agricultural land acquisition.