April 28, 2011 / Social Relations Analysis E-Debate
Over the last four decades there has been much emphasis on women and gender in African agriculture and agricultural policy. There has also been plenty of talk about the importance of integrating social relations analysis into policy to achieve equitable,
April 26, 2011 / Briefings politiques / Policy briefs in French
L’Agriculture est la base de la plupart des économies africaines. Pour des millions de petits propriétaires, l’agriculture est leur gagne-pain, elle soutient la sécurité alimentaire et les efforts de la lutte contre la pauvreté et elle favorise un développement économique
April 26, 2011 / Briefings politiques / Policy briefs in French
La terre est primordiale pour le développement viable. L’agriculture et d’autres activés axées sur la terre soutiennent la plupart des stratégies des moyens d’existence des personnes vivant dans les zones rurales. En investissant dans des technologies appropriées, une gestion et
April 20, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
A moderated panel discussion on key challenges and responses from social movements and civil society, followed by a plenary debate.
April 20, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
Policy roundtable: perspectives from multilateral/bilateral development institutions. Five minute presentations on agency positions and key issues, followed by facilitated question and answer session and plenary discussion.
April 20, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
A panel discussion and plenary debate on the ways that the ‘land grab’ debate has been framed, reflecting on the findings of different research groups.
April 19, 2011 / Working Papers
James Sumberg In this paper the example of cocoa production in Ghana is used to explore how the narratives portraying African farmers have changed over the last 70 years. These evolving narratives are explored through the notion of a ‘good
April 19, 2011 / News
Resisting Agribusiness Development: The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate in West Papua, Indonesia. Longgena Ginting, WALHI/FoE Indonesia, Jalan Selamet Ketaren 100, 20371 Medan, Indonesia and Oliver Pye, Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, Bonn University, Nassestrasse 2, 53113 Bonn,
April 19, 2011 / Young People, Farming & Food Conference
In Africa, policy interest in the ‘young people – agriculture nexus’ focuses almost exclusively on the challenge of keeping young people in rural areas and engaged in farming. This approach ignores important drivers, trends and developments that are impacting on
April 19, 2011 / Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa
Agricultural development is back at the top of the development agenda in Africa. Ten years ago, the Maputo Declaration committed African governments to substantial increases in investment. Since then, 23 countries have completed country investment plans as part of the
April 19, 2011 / Agricultural Investment, Gender and Land in Africa
Agricultural development is back at the top of the development agenda in Africa. Ten years ago, the Maputo Declaration committed African governments to substantial increases in investment. Since then, 23 countries have completed country investment plans as part of the
April 19, 2011 / FAC blog
A number of framing assumptions can be identified including: Agriculture has the potential to provide young people and others in rural areas with a reasonable livelihood and opportunities for accumulation. Young people, the agricultural sector, the rural economy and rural
April 15, 2011 / Future of Pastoralism
Conference participants developed timelines for specific pastoralist areas where they've worked. Timelines captured trends (population, markets, rangeland change, climate, water, etc.) as well as events (local leadership change, government change, boundaries, conflict, drought, etc.) and publications of key research or
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
As global environmental politics, political economies and policies turn increasingly on the imperatives of climate change mitigation, so land and resources in many parts of the world are coming to be re-valued in terms of their potential contributions to reducing
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
Governments creating “Growth corridors” and “Special Economic Zones” facilitate the acquisition of great expanses of land by large corporations, both foreign and domestic, in the name of development. While these public-private partnerships are claimed to have beneficial developmental effects on
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
The expansion of land investments in new global commodities brings to the fore dynamics between the competing crises of food, energy, climate and finance. With global policies and capital driving such expansion, power inequalities between actors whose livelihoods are intimately
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
Contemporary land grabbing is often associated with violent conflict. This can be seen in the way enclosures are being carried out, or how contract farming or labour recruitment are being framed and enforced, and when ordinary villagers resist getting dispossessed
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
Land deals take many divergent institutional forms, ranging from large estate agriculture based on wage labour, to outgrower and contract schemes, with many permutations in between, (including options for food crop production alongside biofuel feedstocks). This panel explores the varied
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
Evictions and land conflicts in general represent situations in which human rights are very likely to be violated. This is true in all cases where the land is taken without respecting basic international standards such as a prior comprehensive impact
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
The papers in this panel analyse the impacts of global processes of an increased commodification of land - related to a scramble for land for large-scale agricultural production, the production of biofuels, and tourism - on local contestations over land
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
The focus of this panel is the relationship between land grabs, dispossession and livelihoods. Land is a key livelihood resource and is used in a variety of ways by different peoples; an analysis of the effects of dispossession on livelihoods
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
This panel aims at exploring the blank spot in the "land grab" debate: the concealed but accelerating process of domestic and international large-scale land acquisitions in the transition countries of the former socialist countries in Eurasia.
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
In this panel, presenters focus on land grabs conducted in the name of environmental stewardship. Although most of the attention on land-grabbing has gone to corporate and government buyers, the expropriation or use of land for the purposes of conservation
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
This is the first in a two-panel series. In the series, presenters focus on the relationship between large-scale land grabs and modern forms, ideas and manifestations of the State. The papers highlight the ways in which land grabs shape the
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
A government-to-government land deal is often no more than a framework, under which concrete deals between agribusiness corporations and local government for the leasing of designated areas may or may not emerge. The actual “grabbing” of land – the dispossession
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
This panel will consider narratives, arguments and methodologies for investigating the significance and impacts of land deals – rather than focusing on particular empirical case studies. Four contributors tackle this in different ways.
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
Large land deals involving a range of domestic and transnational investors are reconfiguring access to resources in drylands in sub-Saharan Africa and presenting new threats for pastoralists inhabiting these environments. The livelihoods of pastoralists depend greatly on mobility and flexibility
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
Are land grabs actually water grabs? Water scarcity is a driver of land grabs. Arid countries in the Gulf and elsewhere seek to produce their food in other countries' endowed with higher rainfall, rather than rely on volatile global commodity
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
Faced with ongoing challenges of rural poverty and the need to promote national economic development, African governments in particular are looking for new ways to promote external investment in agriculture, increasingly in the form of commercial partnerships with local communities.
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
This is the second in a two-panel series (See Panel 19 for first part) . In the series, presenters focus on the relationship between large-scale land grabs and modern forms, ideas or manifestations of the State.
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
Global land grabbing is politically contested process, partly explaining for its uneven outcomes from one setting to another. The political contestations around land grabbing vary in character, actors, agendas, forms, ideology, politics and trajectory. This panel (one of the two
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
Global land grabbing is often associated with institutional processes around formal land titling, either a precondition for the land deals or a result of land deals. This panel will critically examine multiple linkages between land titling on the one hand
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
Salient discourses and narratives justify biofuel related interventions in terms of the economic development of "waste" or "idle" lands, alternative energy and climate change. These exist alongside counter- narratives that project a dire food security crisis related to biofuel development.
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
Presenters focus on the way in which land grabs re-shape ecological conditions and functions in various places as well as the way in which notions of the Environment shapes global discourses and structures of land use. All of the papers
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
Focussing on Chinese investment in land and agriculture, the panelists suggest that widespread investment in land from China is relatively new and potentially distinct from investments made by other actors.
April 14, 2011 / Land Grab Panel Outputs
"Free, prior and informed consent" is an international standard against which community consultation processes regarding land-based investment can be based. This panel explores questions about these notions, with reference to experiences in several countries including (nearly independent) Southern Sudan.
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