Development and Change special issue, March 2013: Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land Guest Edited by Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dech.2013.44.issue-2/issuetoc Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in large-scale land deals, often from public lands to the hands of foreign or domestic investors. Popularly referred to as a ‘global […]
Paul Nadasdy has a joint appointment in Anthropology and American Indian Studies. Among his principal research interests is the negotiation and implementation of indigenous land claim and self-government agreements in the Yukon, Canada, where he has been carrying out ethnographic research for 17 years. As an anthropologist, Nadasdy is interested not only in the political implications of these treaties, but in the cultural processes and understandings involved in their negotiation […]
Nancy Chau is a Professor at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and an International Professor at CALS. Her current research in the area of land economics juxtaposes the need for agricultural land preservation and the public finance implications of urban land use in the Chinese context. She is working on two specific topics of interest to this project: 1. Harnessing the Forces of Urban Expansion to Strengthen […]
By Ian Scoones Land grabbing is never far from the headlines. It’s also an issue marked by secrecy in land deals themselves, as well as conflicts over evidence, causes and impacts. What should be done about land grabs, and who should do it, remains a topic of intense debate on the international stage. So what new debates on this key global policy issues are emerging? The recent international conference on […]
Plenary session with Q&A at the 2nd International Conference on Land Grabbing at Cornell University, 17-19 October 2012. Chaired by Ian Scoones of the Institute of Development Studies.
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.
Jesse Ribot (University of Illinois) Melissa Leach (IDS) Lorenzo Cotula (IIED) Sam Moyo (African Institute of Agrarian Studies) Eric Holt-Gimenez (FoodFirst!)
by Kathleen Sexsmith Although scholars on the Politics of Land Deals: Regional Perspectives panel on Oct 17th presented perspectives from disparate locations across the globe, their findings presented a number of commonalities in the ways these processes are taking place – and being resisted. The violent and coercive role of the state in the dispossession of agricultural producers in India and Ecuador was well documented by Michael Levien (Michael’s paper […]
Mamadou Goita of ROPPA, interviewed at the 2nd International Conference on Land Grabbing at Cornell University, October 2012.
Interview with Tania Li from the University of Toronto. Taken at the 2nd International Conference on Land Grabbing at Cornell University, October 2012.