Who rents out the land? Agrarian capital accumulation and lessor landowners in South America
The case of Uruguay
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2285996 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriel Oyhantçabal Benelli (0000-0002-2500-4708, Facultad de Agronomía Universidad de la República Montevideo Uruguay, corresponding author), Soledad Figueredo (Facultad de Agronomía Universidad de la República Montevideo Uruguay), Soledad Figueredo Rolle (0000-0002-1440-8774, Universidad de la República de Uruguay), Lucía Sabia (0000-0002-6761-8994, Facultad de Agronomía Universidad de la República Montevideo Uruguay), Verónica Nuñez (Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Universidad de la República Montevideo Uruguay) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Agrarian Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1471-0358 • E-ISSN: 1471-0366 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/joac.12603 |
| OpenAlex | W4401524669 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article studies the connections between lessor landowners, land grabbing and land financialization in contemporary capital accumulation. Drawing upon extensive empirical research conducted in Uruguay, which combined database analysis and in-depth interviews, the paper provides key insights to understand why land leasing has become a central strategy of ground rent appropriation among different types of landowners at the beginning of the 21st century. Our main results show that the leasing strategy is a combination of tenant-capitalists' expansion, social differentiation and demographic processes of the small landowning capitals displaced from production that rent out their lands, the process of land financialization through large institutional investors, which deploy a land banking strategy, and the optimization of land exploitation among landowner-capitalists. Moreover, our results highlight the importance of prioritising the study of landowners as a class in itself and the different forms of ground rent appropriation
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Appropriation · Business · Capital (architecture · Economic rent · Economic system · Economics · Expropriation · Financialization · Geography · Land grabbing · Land tenure · Land use · Market economy · Natural resource economics · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Land Rights and Reforms · Political Economy and Marxism
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |