Industrial Tree Plantations and the Land Rush in China: Implications for Global Land Grabbing

This book analyses the political and economic causes, mechanisms and impacts of the industrial tree plantation boom in China.

In the past two decades, the industrial tree plantation sector has been expanding rapidly in China, especially in Guangxi Province. Based on extensive primary data, this book concentrates on the political economy of the sector’s expansion with a focus on the recent and dramatic agrarian transformation involving the land-labour nexus, the impact on villagers’ liveliho...