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  • Examining land rental markets’ linkages to land and water control in Colombia’s irrigation megaprojects: integrating the political economy of agrarian change and the political ecology of vulnerability
Title: Examining land rental markets’ linkages to land and water control in Colombia’s irrigation megaprojects: integrating the political economy of agrarian change and the political ecology of vulnerability
Land rental markets often accompany irrigation infrastructure development as water availability revalorizes land. Agrarian change scholars critique land rental markets for contributing to capital accumulation. To date, however, this approach has not incorporated the roles of environmental changes induced by irrigation, corresponding social-ecological interactions, and political ecologies of vulnerability. Based on 12 months of research in Colombia’s most expensive land rental market spanning two irrigation megaprojects, this paper demonstrates how land rental markets compound environmental stresses to exclude producers from land- and water-based agricultural livelihoods. The research additionally advances debates of land control, capital’s mobility, and Andean water infrastructure development.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1838402
PAR ID:
10580057
Author(s) / Creator(s):
Publisher / Repository:
The Journal of Peasant Studies
Date Published:
Journal Name:
The Journal of Peasant Studies
Volume:
50
Issue:
5
ISSN:
0306-6150
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1975 to 2001
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
land rental market exclusion irrigation political ecology of vulnerability agrarian change Colombia
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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