March 18, 2011 / News
By Michael Levien The conflict between farmers and industry over land has become the greatest contradiction for capitalism in India today. Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become the epicenters of “land wars,” as farmers across the country have resisted the state?s
March 18, 2011 / News
By Julia Behrman, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Agnes Quisumbing This paper strives to introduce a discussion of the gender dimensions into the growing debate on large-scale land deals. It addresses the current information gap on the differential gender effects of large-scale
March 18, 2011 / News
By John McCarthy, Suraya Afiff and Jacqueline Vel In August 2010 Indonesia‘s ministry of agriculture launched a giant project to create a $5 billion agricultural estate spanning three districts in the province of Papua in response to perceptions of a
March 18, 2011 / News
Foreign investment into agriculture: Investment Treaties and the ability of governments to balance rights and obligations between foreign investors and local communities. By Mahnaz Malik A number of countries are offering large tracts of farmland to foreign investors as demand
March 18, 2011 / News
By Kathleen Guillozet and John C. Bliss Foreign investment in Ethiopia?s forestry sector is currently limited, but agricultural investments that affect forests, largely through forest clearing, are commonplace. We describe the nature of forest investments and outline the challenges and
March 18, 2011 / News
Range Enclosures in Southern Oromia, Ethiopia: An innovative response or erosion in the common property resource tenure? By Bokutache Dida Rangeland enclosures and related issues of property rights in African grazing lands have received research attention since the 1980s (e.g.
March 17, 2011 / News
By Megan Ybarra This article examines the significance of the role of the military in conservation in Guatemala through an analysis of discourses about the lowlands over time. Historically, Guatemala’s national imaginary of the lowlands has been that of a
March 17, 2011 / News
By Shandra P. Sullivan Since the early 20th century, national and international movements in capital and ideas have contributed to the radical transformation of the Brazilian countryside. In Mato Grosso do Sul, the Kaiowá-Guarani have been gradually crowded onto reservations
March 17, 2011 / News
Abdirizak Arale Nunow The Tana delta is within the Tana Delta District that was curved out in 2007 from the larger Tana River District in Coast province. The district headquarters is situated in Garsen and the delta is a common
March 17, 2011 / Policy Briefs
Pastoralist areas of the Horn of Africa are experiencing rapid change. Markets are opening up, helping to improve livelihoods and generate substantial new wealth for local and national economies. Political and constitutional changes are creating opportunities for pastoralists to influence
March 17, 2011 / News
By John Morton There is some evidence that companies, both multinational and African, operating from motivations that can be very broadly labelled “Corporate Social Responsibility”, can make real and significant contributions to pastoral development and that useful development dialogues can
March 17, 2011 / News
Economic Empowerment for Pastoralist Women: A Comparative Look at Program Experience in Uganda, Somaliland and Sudan By John Livingstone & Everse Ruhindi PENHA (the Pastoral & Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa) is a regional NGO, focused on pastoral development,
March 17, 2011 / News
By Mustafa Babiker The central drylands of Sudan have been the home to various forms of mobile pastoralism for centuries. Pastoral mobility is an ecological necessity dictated by the extreme temporal and spatial variability of rainfall in these areas. However,
March 17, 2011 / News
By Hussein Abdullahi Mahmoud This study examines the newly emerging and vibrant camel marketing processes in northern Kenya/southern Ethiopia borderlands. This trade has become an attractive economic activity only in the past few years. Pastoralist innovation is key to risk mitigation
March 17, 2011 / News
Mobility and the Sustainability of the Pastoral Production system in Africa: Perspectives of Contrasting Paradigms Gufu Oba This paper explores the extent to which changes in pastoral herd mobility and impacts on the environment may be explained by four paradigms:
March 15, 2011 / Future of Pastoralism - Presentations
By Simone Rettberg, University of Bayreuth, Germany For Panel 3: Regional conflict dynamics in the Horn of Africa and implications for pastoral development
March 15, 2011 / News
By Opportuna Kweka Pastoralism economy has diversified due to loss of their livestock. However, this is taken as a positive change by conservationist and developmentalists who for many years have viewed Maasai as conservative, resistant to change and their pastoral economy
March 15, 2011 / News
The Future of Pastoralism in the Sahel Zone of West Africa: Climate Change: Impacts & Consequencies on Pastoralism By Mohammed Ibrahim Bare This paper seeks to examine the challenges of climate change on pastoralism, considering its far-reaching impact and consequences.
March 15, 2011 / News
By Fiona Flintan? with contributions from Beth Cullenn and Shauna Latosky ‘Change’ in pastoral areas and societies is occurring at an unprecedented pace. Pastoral women and men experience such change in different ways, and have different capacities to transform it
March 15, 2011 / News
By David Siele, Jeremy Swift, Saverio Krätli Demand for education among pastoralists, including children actively involved in production, is rapidly increasing. Education is seen by impoverished households as a way out of poverty, and by the households actively involved in
March 15, 2011 / News
Town Camels: Pastoral Innovation in a fast Changing World Case Study from Gode Town, Somali Regional State, Ethiopia By Abdi Abdullahi Hussien, Seid Mohamed Ali, and Abdurehman Eid Tahir Because of demographic, socio-economic and political factors, Ethiopian pastoralists are settling
March 15, 2011 / News
Dispossession, semi-proletarianization, and enclosure: primitive accumulation and the land grab in Laos By Miles Kenney-Lazar Introduction: In April 2008, the Vietnamese corporation Hoàng Anh Gia Lai Joint (HAGL) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Laos (GoL) agreeing to
March 15, 2011 / News
By Elisa Da Vià Intorduction: In the Makeni area of central Sierra Leone, a land dispute has flared up after Addax Bioenergy, a division of the Swiss-based energy corporation Addax & Oryx Group, won a 50-years lease for around 40,000
March 14, 2011 / Future of Pastoralism
Commentaries on each of the 12 panel sessions were provided by participants and are linked below. There are is also a summary of Day 1 and Day 2.
March 14, 2011 / Future of Pastoralism
Immediate Release: March 2011 David Hughes, Future Agricultures Consortium Communications and Networking Officer can be contacted on: +254 716 608 122 or d.hughes@future-agricultures.org Website: www.future-agricultures.org Pastoralists: moving with the times Frequently depicted as in crisis, pastoralists are changing the way they
March 10, 2011 / News
By Madeleine Fairbairn Rather than treating global farmland acquisitions as a top-down phenomenon driven entirely by global markets, this paper instead highlights the crucial mediating role played by national-level land politics and domestic elites using material drawn from interviews with
March 9, 2011 / Future of Pastoralism
Around 90 researchers from around the world will gather at an international conference on the “Future of Pastoralism” to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during 21-21rd March, 2011. This crucial event will allow space for critical reflection on the
March 8, 2011 / News
By Diana Ojeda The last decade in Colombia has been marked by a massive counter-agrarian reform, forcibly displacing 4 million people from an estimated 5.3 million hectares of land. The land grab stands in close relation to paramilitarism, illegal crop
March 8, 2011 / News
Foreign investment into agriculture: Investment Treaties and the ability of governments to balance rights and obligations between foreign investors and local communities By Mahnaz Malik A number of countries are offering large tracts of farmland to foreign investors as demand
March 7, 2011 / News
Development as a Trojan Horse? Foreign Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Ethiopia, Madagascar and Uganda By Dr. Sandra J.T.M. Evers and Dr. Kassahun Berhanu The past decade has been characterized by an unprecedented rise in foreign, large-scale land acquisitions in Africa.
March 7, 2011 / News
By Colin Filer Introduction: It is still commonly asserted that 97 percent of the land in Papua New Guinea (PNG) remains under customary ownership, just as it was when PNG gained its independence from Australian colonial rule in 1975 (GPNG
March 7, 2011 / News
The Biofuel Boom and Indonesia’s Oil Palm Industry: The Twin Processes of Peasant Dispossession and Adverse Incorporation in West Kalimantan By Claude Joel Fortin The sharp rise in global demand for biofuels and food has prompted widespread land grabbing in
March 7, 2011 / News
By Janette Bulkan Introduction: China has arranged free trade agreements (Coxhead 2007, Jenkins et al. 2007) which lay out in some details what is to be traded and on what terms in a WTO-compatible framework with large supply countries such
March 7, 2011 / News
Naturalizing Land Dispossession: A Policy Discourse Analysis of the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate By Takeshi Ito, Noer Fauzi Rachman, Laksmi A. Savitri The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) signifies a strategic space within which corporations facilitated
March 4, 2011 / News
Land grabbing, governance and social peace-building issues in Cameroon: Case study of the roles of elites in land deals and commoditisation in the North West Region J. A. Mope Simo A critical analysis of patterns of land grabbing and commoditisation
March 4, 2011 / News
Would Cecil Rhodes have signed a Code of Conduct? Reflections on global land grabbing and land rights in Africa, past and present By Robin Palmer The new phenomenon of global land grabbing and its impact on land rights in Africa
March 4, 2011 / News
By Teo Ballvé For decades, the coupled dynamics of the drug trade and political violence have fueled the displacement of more than four million campesinos in Colombia. Agribusiness developments on these violently stolen lands have become favored conduits for drugmoney
March 3, 2011 / Communications
A note from Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies and co-convenor of the Future Agricultures Consortium (www.future-agricultures.org) for the DFID White Paper team and the UK Parliamentary Inquiry into the Global Food Crisis.
March 3, 2011 / News
Report Number 4 Pastoral Economic Growth and Development Policy Assessment, Ethiopia By Peter D. Little, John McPeak, Getachew Gebru, and Solomon Desta This report addresses policy options for improving pastoral economies and development in Ethiopia. We draw on the findings
March 3, 2011 / News
Report Number 3 Pastoral Economic Growth and Development Policy Assessment, Ethiopia By Peter D. Little, Roy Behnke, John McPeak, and Getachew Gebru This report addresses policy options for improving pastoral economies and development in Ethiopia and their different tradeoffs. We
March 3, 2011 / News
Report Number 2 Pastoral Economic Growth and Development Policy Assessment, Ethiopia By Peter D. Little, Roy Behnke, John McPeak, and Getachew Gebru This report is the second in a series of papers that examine pastoral economies and development in
March 3, 2011 / News
Report Number 1Pastoral Economic Growth and Development Policy Assessment, Ethiopia By Peter D. Little, Roy Behnke, John McPeak, and Getachew Gebru Ethiopia has the largest number of domestic livestock in Africa and much of it originates in the country‘s
March 3, 2011 / News
By Mark James Maughan This article focuses on the effects of agrofuel production in the south-western department of Nariño, Colombia, as multinational firms cultivate palm oil on territories that legally belong to indigenous and ethnic groups. The two communities primarily
March 3, 2011 / News
Nothing New Under the Sun or a New Battle Joined? The Political Economy of African Dispossession in the Current Global Land Rush By Liz Alden Wily This paper focuses upon local conditions which allow governments of agrarian economies in especially
March 3, 2011 / News
By John McCarthy, Suraya Afiff and Jacqueline Vel In August 2010 Indonesia’s ministry of agriculture launched a giant project to create a $5 billion agricultural estate spanning three districts in the province of Papua in response to perceptions of a
March 3, 2011 / News
By Joseph Mujere and Sylvester Dombo Since 2000 the land reform discourse in Zimbabwe has focussed on land redistribution as well as the new forms of livelihoods, which it allowed the peasants to have. Focus has also been placed on
March 3, 2011 / News
By Randi Kaarhus Agricultural growth corridors have over the last years been launched as high-profile initiatives to increase agricultural production in Africa. These ‘corridors’ are presented as value-chain mechanisms, and as means to promote an African Green Revolution. As a
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