José Graziano da Silva, Director General of the FAO, joined the conference by video on October 19, 2012 to discuss the FAO’s stance on global land acquisitions.
You can also read a copy of the Director General’s remarks here.
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January 31, 2014
Owning/Controlling the Underground
David Kay, CARDI, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University
3:00-4:30 PM; Reception 5:00-6:00pm
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February 7, 2014 :: Water and Land Panel
Hydroimperialism and Hydrocapitalism: Irrigation Technologies in Algeria and Beyond
Sara Prichard, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Any Distant Archipelago: Oceans, Islands, Havens
Raymond Craib, Department of History, Cornell University
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February 10, 2014 :: ICM Lecture Series
Historicizing the Land Grab: The Unfolding, and Unraveling, of the Global Food Regime
Philip McMichael, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University
4:45 pm
Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Friday, February 14, 2014
Wild Blue: The Undersea World as Frontier in the 1950s and 1960s
Helen Rozwadowski, Department of History, University of Connecticut
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Friday, February 28, 2014
Land to Those Who Work It: Rural Social Movements in Brazil and Bolivia (Panel and Reception)
Miguel Carter, Political Science, American University with representatives from theBrazilian Rural Landless Workers’ Movement
Nicole Fabricant, Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice, Towson University
Panel 3-5PM & Reception 5-6 PM
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Friday, March 7, 2014
Food, Farm and Fuel — Panel Discussion led by Phil McMichael(Development Sociology)
Nick Cullather, History, Indiana University-Bloomington
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- Land Matrix
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[…] of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), José Graziano da Silva, offered one of his first statements on land grabbing since taking up office. He was speaking at the second ‘Global Land Grabbing’ conference […]