"Land grabbing" is rarely out of the headlines. But the practice of land being appropriated by the environmental agenda - so-called "green grabs" - is gaining more and more attention. A new article on the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) blog looks at this phenomenon, and refers to recent work involving Future Agricultures members, published in a recent special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.
Links
- Read the full blog: "Going once, going twice... The great green land grab" by Terry Sunderland
- Global Land Grabbing II: international conference on large scale land deals, 17-19 October 2012
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