This collection brings together world-renowned and early-career scholars in the first in-depth empirical examination of on-the-ground responses to land grabbing in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This book was first published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.

1. Resistance, acquiescence or incorporation? An introduction to land grabbing and political reactions 'from below' 2. Anything but a story foretold: multiple politics of resistance to the agrarian extractivist project in Guatemala 3. Listening to their silence? The political reaction of affected communities to large-scale land acquisitions: insights from Ethiopia 4. Land grabbing, legal contention and institutional change in Colombia 5. Resistance or participation? Fighting against corporate land access amid political uncertainty in Madagascar 6. Policy processes of a land grab: at the interface of politics 'in the air' and politics 'on the ground' in Massingir, Mozambique 7. Resistance or adaptation? Ukrainian peasants' responses to large-scale land acquisitions 8. Politics from below? Small-, mid- and large-scale land dispossession in Teso, Uganda, and the relevance of scale 9. Social struggles in Uganda's Acholiland: understanding responses and resistance to Amuru sugar works 10. Territorial restructuring and resistance in Argentina 11. Networked, rooted and territorial: green grabbing and resistance in Chiapas 12. Guerrilla agriculture? A biopolitical guide to illicit cultivation within an IUCN Category II protected area 13. Reclaiming the worker's property: control grabbing, farmworkers and the Las Tunas Accords in Nicaragua 14. The 'Goan Impasse': land rights and resistance to SEZs in Goa, India 15. Oil palm expansion without enclosure: smallholders and environmental narratives 16. Rubber, rights and resistance: the evolution of local struggles against a Chinese rubber concession in Northern Laos 17. Space for pluralism? Examining the Malibya land grab 18. The right to resist: disciplining civil society at Rio+20