Does community-based tenure prevent land grabbing? The oil palm case in Mexico

IF 4 2区 地球科学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY
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The recent oil palm expansion has resulted in significant land losses for rural communities globally, raising concerns about food security, poverty, and the loss of common resources. This study investigates whether community-based tenure regimes in Mexico, particularly ejidos, prevent land grabbing and land concentration in oil palm producing regions. By mapping oil palm plantation types (smallholdings, mid-sized and large-scale plantations) across major land tenure regimes (ejido, communal and private property) using high spatial resolution imagery from Google Earth and ESRI/Maxar, we explore the relationship between tenure forms and land concentration. Our findings suggest that ejido lands largely prevents land grabbing by oil palm, although neoliberal reforms have favored land concentration, especially under private tenured land (southern Campeche) but also in some ejidos facing illegal land-based investments (Lacandon rainforest). This research contributes to broader debates on oil palm, tenure regimes and land grabbing, highlighting the need for land tenure policies that protect rural communities from industrial plantation encroachments.

以社区为基础的土地保有权能否防止土地掠夺?墨西哥油棕榈树案例
最近的油棕榈扩张导致全球农村社区的土地大量流失,引发了人们对粮食安全、贫困和共同资源流失的担忧。本研究调查了墨西哥以社区为基础的土地使用权制度,尤其是 ejidos,是否能防止油棕榈产区的土地掠夺和土地集中。我们利用谷歌地球和 ESRI/Maxar 的高空间分辨率图像,绘制了主要土地权属制度("ajido"、公有和私有财产)中的油棕种植园类型(小块土地、中型和大型种植园),探索了土地权属形式与土地集中之间的关系。我们的研究结果表明,尽管新自由主义改革有利于土地集中,特别是在私人保有土地上(坎佩切省南部),但在一些面临非法土地投资的 ejido(拉坎东雨林),"ajido "土地在很大程度上阻止了油棕榈树对土地的掠夺。这项研究有助于对油棕、土地保有权制度和土地掠夺等问题进行更广泛的讨论,并强调了制定土地保有权政策以保护农村社区免受工业种植园侵占的必要性。
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Applied Geography
Applied Geography GEOGRAPHY-
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期刊介绍: Applied Geography is a journal devoted to the publication of research which utilizes geographic approaches (human, physical, nature-society and GIScience) to resolve human problems that have a spatial dimension. These problems may be related to the assessment, management and allocation of the world physical and/or human resources. The underlying rationale of the journal is that only through a clear understanding of the relevant societal, physical, and coupled natural-humans systems can we resolve such problems. Papers are invited on any theme involving the application of geographical theory and methodology in the resolution of human problems.
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