March 2, 2011 / World Development Report 2008
Next steps… building on the proceedings of the Politics and Policy Processes Discussion Workshop for the 2008 World Development Report on ‘Agriculture for Development’
March 2, 2011 / News
By Philip McMichael This paper situates the land grab in the conjunctural crisis of capitalist ecology, expressed in climate, energy and food crises, which in turn transform the food/fuel regime. This crisis serves a double purpose: of justifying investment in
March 2, 2011 / News
By Michael B. Dwyer Introduction: Laos and the global land grab In August of 2008, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization shocked the world when he described a recent spate of transnational farmland investment as “a
March 2, 2011 / News
By Peter Ho and Cécile Famerée The article illustrates how the political dynamics around access, assignation, and control of natural resources allows understanding divisions in land?based social relations. A powerful Peruvian private firm has acquired land for palm plantation on
March 2, 2011 / News
By Thea Hilhorst, Joost Nelen and Nata Traoré Policy makers in Africa increasingly state that modernisation of agriculture requires “agro-business” investors, whereby family farms should make space and sell their labour. This discourse amplified following food prices rise in 2007,
March 2, 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 2, 2011 / News
By Derek Hall This paper argues that research into dynamics of land control in the contemporary ‘land grab‘ can benefit from engagement with the literature on booms in the production of crops like cocoa, coffee, fast-growing trees, oil palm, and
March 2, 2011 / News
By Dana Graef This paper analyzes the linked histories and changing national discourses surrounding a transnational mining concession and subsequent plans for national hydroelectric development in the Pacific south of Costa Rica. My analysis shows how the framing of a
March 2, 2011 / News
By Willem Odendaal Large scale land acquisitions by foreign investors in Africa for agricultural purposes continue to capture attention worldwide. In recent years Namibia has received some proposals from multi-national agricultural corporations to develop large scale irrigation projects, mainly in
March 2, 2011 / News
By Andrea Bues This paper aims to analyse the impacts of agricultural foreign direct investment on the local institutional setting of water management in a country in which most of the population depends on agriculture. It presents the case of
March 2, 2011 / News
By Yulian Junaidi Jasuan In the recent years we see the fast growing phenomena of land grabbing across the world. In Africa, Asia and Latin America million of hectares of land has been taking over by developed countries through their
March 2, 2011 / News
By Samuel B. Mabikke Since the mid 1980s, Northern Uganda- a region of over 13 districts has been devastated by armed conflict particularly by the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) as well as old age cattle rustling by armed Karamajong rustlers
March 2, 2011 / News
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat, Mamidi Bharath Bhushan and Sujatha Surepally Introduction: Special Economic Zones (SEZs) can be compared to their predecessors, Free Trade Zones and Export Processing Zones, in that they are aimed at stimulating foreign direct investment (FDI) and rapid,
March 2, 2011 / News
By Melissa Leach, James Fairhead and James Fraser Introduction: Biochar refers to the carbon-rich product that results when biomass – from wood or leaves to manure or crop residues – is burned under oxygen-deprived conditions and then buried in the
March 2, 2011 / News
By Irna Hofman and Peter P. S. Ho This paper will use the case of China to arrive at an analytical framework with which we might better understand the processes of worldwide land acquisitions – pejoratively termed “land grabbing.” In
March 2, 2011 / News
By Festus Boamah The rapid emerging interest in large scale biofuel investments in Ghana are fraught with debates and controversies among government agencies, non-governmental organizations and policy makers expressing concerns about the possible effects on the environment, land tenure, food
March 2, 2011 / News
By Brenda Baletti Introduction: On July 14th 2010, 1000 people gathered in Santarém’s Yacht Club for a “public audience” regarding the one million ton capacity soy port that multi-national agricultural corporation Cargill built on the Amazon River there in 2000.
February 28, 2011 / News
By Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira I adapt James Scott’s framework for a comparative analysis of ongoing changes in land ownership in the Amazon and the Cerrado regions of Brazil. The Brazilian government recently initiated a program intended to regularize
February 28, 2011 / News
By Tom Lavers Recent foreign agricultural investment in Africa has generated a great deal of interest and criticism, with western media warning of a neo-colonial ?land grab‘. This paper moves beyond this narrow assessment by examining the political and social
February 28, 2011 / News
By Shepard Daniel This paper examines the role of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector branch of the World Bank Group, within the growing global trend of large-scale land investments in developing countries by wealthier, food-insecure nations and
February 7, 2011 / Future of Pastoralism
Over 40 papers were presented across 12 panels during the conference. Find the full listing of plenary presentations, all papers, plus panel abstracts here.
February 3, 2011 / Young People, Farming & Food Conference
Are young people’s life aspirations and the vision of a dynamic agricultural sector in conflict? Policy interest in the ‘young people – agriculture nexus’ in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), when it is evident, is framed by a combination of narratives relating
February 3, 2011 / Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa
Are young people’s life aspirations and the vision of a dynamic agricultural sector in conflict? Policy interest in the ‘young people – agriculture nexus’ in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), when it is evident, is framed by a combination of narratives relating
February 3, 2011 / Agricultural Investment, Gender and Land in Africa
Are young people’s life aspirations and the vision of a dynamic agricultural sector in conflict? Policy interest in the ‘young people – agriculture nexus’ in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), when it is evident, is framed by a combination of narratives relating
February 3, 2011 / FAC blog
So what were the main issues discussed? Here are six that caught my attention: This was, in many respects, building on the main ideas of the World Development Report 2008 http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/EXTWDR2008/0,,menuPK:2795178~pagePK:64167702~piPK:64167676~theSitePK:2795143,00.html]. Yes, agricultural development matters, in many cases small-scale farmers
January 31, 2011 / Future of Pastoralism
The future of pastoralism in Africa is uncertain. Pastoralist areas are experiencing radical changes in access to key resources, options for mobility and opportunities for marketing and trade. These changes present new threats and possibilities for making pastoralist livelihoods stronger.
January 28, 2011 / International Conference on Global Land Grabbing
Over 100 papers will be presented 32 panels during the conference. Find the full listing of plenary presentations, all papers, plus panel abstracts here.
January 28, 2011 / International Conference on Global Land Grabbing
The Institute of Development Studies is situated on the campus of the University of Sussex, conveniently located on the outskirts of Brighton, close to the Channel ferry ports and to Gatwick and Heathrow international airports, and just over an hour
January 28, 2011 / International Conference on Global Land Grabbing
VenueThe Institute of Development Studies is a leading global organisation for research, teaching and communications on international development. IDS was founded in 1966 and enjoys an international reputation based on the quality of its work and its commitment to
January 28, 2011 / International Conference on Global Land Grabbing
Co-organized and hosted by the Future Agricultures Consortium in partnership with the Journal of Peasant Studies and the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI). This international academic conference on ‘Global Land Grabbing’ will be held on 6-8 April 2011 at the
January 28, 2011 / International Conference on Global Land Grabbing
LDPI promotes 'engaged research' on the recent explosion of (trans) national commercial and corporation-driven land transactions.
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