ABSTRACT
Investments in large-scale, land-based projects have increased over the past two decades, with a concomitant rise in resistance by community-based land defenders. Drawing from data on resistance movements, literature findings, and two case studies in Senegal, this chapter compares the actions of land defenders in different types of land transformations for either agro-industrial or mining projects. We find that outcomes of resistances seem largely case-dependent and determined by political opportunities, while the motives, narratives, and more confrontational practices of land defenders differ across both sectors. We suggest that this can be explained through sector-specific material, discursive, and institutional factors which pose challenges for potential cross-sectoral alliances between different groups of environmental and land defenders.
