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A Theory of Access.
Jesse C. Ribot,Nancy Lee Peluso +1 more
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In this article, the authors define access as the ability to derive benefits from things, broadening from property's clas- sical definition as "the right to benefit from things" and examine a broad set of factors that differentiate access from property.Abstract:
The term "access" is frequently used by property and natural resource analysts without adequate definition. In this paper we develop a concept of access and examine a broad set of factors that differentiate access from property. We define access as "the ability to derive benefits from things," broadening from property's clas- sical definition as "the right to benefit from things." Access, following this definition, is more akin to "a bundle of powers" than to property's notion of a "bundle of rights." This formulation includes a wider range of social relationships that constrain or enable benefits from resource use than property relations alone. Using this fram- ing, we suggest a method of access analysis for identifying the constellations of means, relations, and processes that enable various actors to derive benefits from re- sources. Our intent is to enable scholars, planners, and policy makers to empirically "map" dynamic processes and relationships of access.read more
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Livelihood Transitions and the Changing Nature of Farmer–Herder Conflict in Sahelian West Africa
TL;DR: Using the cases of four rural communities in Niger, an ‘access to resources’ framework is adopted to analyse the causal connections among rural peoples' livelihood strategies, everyday social relations of production, perceptions of social groups' identities, and the potential for farmer–herder conflict.
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Livelihood impacts of biofuel crop production: Implications for governance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify livelihood dimensions that are particularly likely to be affected by their cultivation in the global South, revealing that distributional effects are crucial to evaluating the outcomes of biofuel production across these dimensions.
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Introduction: New directions in agrarian political economy
Madeleine Fairbairn,Jonathan A Fox,S. Ryan Isakson,Michael Levien,Nancy Lee Peluso,Shahra Razavi,Ian Scoones,K. Sivaramakrishnan +7 more
TL;DR: The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS) has served as a principal arena for the formation and dissemination of cutting-edge research and theory about agrarian transition, resource access and rural livelihoods as mentioned in this paper.
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Gender and generation in engagements with oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia: insights from feminist political ecology
TL;DR: In many parts of Indonesia, investment in oil palm has brought accelerated forms of land acquisition and market engagement for communities, signalling far-reaching implications for equity and w... as mentioned in this paper.
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From financialization to operations of capital: Historicizing and disentangling the finance–farmland-nexus
TL;DR: In this article, a new way of thinking through the incorporation of farmland into financial markets is proposed, based on the notion of operations of capital, which can make a more nuanced historicization of the entanglement between finance and farmland.
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