A special issue of the journal Development and Change, entitled Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land, is the latest of a series exploring global land, water and green grabs.
This has been part of the work of the Land Deal Politics Initiative, and supported by the land theme of the Future Agricultures Consortium. Many of the papers published were originally presented in two major conferences held at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex in 2011 and at Cornell University in 2012.
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Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land (2013)
Special Issue, Development and Change, 44(2). Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White (editors)
Other special issues on land, green grabs and water grabs
- Land Grabbing and Global Governance (2013) Special Issue, Globalizations, 10(1). Matias E. Margulis, Nora McKeon & Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rglo20/10/1
- The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals. (2012) Special Issue Journal of Peasant Studies, 39(3-4). Ben White, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones & Wendy Wolford (editors)
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjps20/39/3-4
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- Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature? (2012) Special Issue, Journal of Peasant Studies 39(2). James Fairhead, Melissa Leach & Ian Scoones (editors). http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjps20/39/2
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- Water grabbing? Focus on the (re)appropriation of finite water resources (2012) Special Issue, Water Alternatives, Lyla Mehta, Gert Jan Veldwisch and Jennifer Franco (editors)
http://www.wateralternatives.org
- Towards a better understanding of global land grabbing. (2011) Forum, Journal of Peasant Studies, 38(2). Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Ben White & Wendy Wolford (editors).
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjps20/38/2
- Biofuels, land and agrarian change (2010). Special Issue, Journal of Peasant Studies, 37(4), Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Philip McMichael & Ian Scoones (editors). http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjps20/37/4
Special issues on other topics
Future Agricultures researchers often contribute to special issues of journals on a variety of topics, including young people, seeds and climate change. A full list of them is on our journal special issues page.