Originally published as volume 44, issue 2 of Development and Change.

Governing global land deals : the role of the state in the rush for land / Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White
State involvement, land grabbing and counter-insurgency in colombia / Jacobo Grajales
Road mapping : megaprojects and land grabs in the northern guatemalan lowlands / Liza Grandia
Land regularization in brazil and the global land grab / Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira
Negotiating environmental sovereignty in costa rica / Dana J. Graef
Building the politics machine : tools for "resolving" the global land grab / Michael B. Dwyer
Indirect dispossession : domestic power imbalances and foreign access to land in mozambique / Madeleine Fairbairn
Competition over authority and access : international land deals in madagascar / Perrine Burnod, Mathilde Gingembre and Rivo Andrianirina Ratsialonana
Regimes of dispossession : from steel towns to special economic zones / Michael Levien
The political construction of wasteland : governmentality, land acquisition and social inequality in south india / Jennifer Baka
Chinese land-based interventions in senegal / Lila Buckley
Identity, territory and land conflict in brazil / LaShandra Sullivan.