There was a very positive response to our Call for Abstracts: approximately 300 abstracts were submitted, the majority of which were of very high quality. The organizers invited papers that offer rigorous and innovative analysis. Papers based on recent, original field research were especially welcomed. Only 138 abstracts have been selected and invited mainly due to the physical limitation of the venue.

Click to view the provisional list of titles, authors, and abstracts (pdf).

Papers we have received so far:

356.9 KiB
348 Downloads

Narco-trafficking Landscapes: Drug flows as accelerants of land dispossession

narcoab.pdf
Date:October 4, 2012

300.5 KiB
293 Downloads

How land grabbing overturns the governance of irrigated areas in Mali? State, Donors, Farmers seeking to find new roles

adam.pdf
Author: Adamczewski, Armandine, Thomas Hertzog, Jean-Philippe Tonneau, Jean-Christophe Poussin and Jean-Wes Jamin
Date:October 11, 2012

1.0 MiB
683 Downloads

The Politics of Land Grabbing in Guatemala

alonso-fradejas.pdf
Author: Alonso-Fradejas, Alberto
Date:October 16, 2012

608.6 KiB
675 Downloads

Conflicting land use agendas: environment, indigenous land rights and development in central Bolivia. The case of the Isiboro-Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS)

arellano.pdf
Author: Arellano-Lopez, F. Sonia
Date:September 26, 2012

593.4 KiB
622 Downloads

Political Memories, Economic Land Concessions, and Landscapes in the Lao People's Democratic Republic

baird.pdf
Author: Baird, Ian G.
Date:October 2, 2012

623.4 KiB
535 Downloads

The Immutably Mobile Wasteland: How Wasteland Development Policies are Shaping Modern Land Politics in India

baka.pdf
Author: Baka, Jennifer
Date:September 21, 2012

2.7 MiB
965 Downloads

Everyone Must Eat? Liberia, Food Security and Palm Oil

balachandran.pdf
Author: Balachandran, Lakshmi; Elizabeth Herb, Shahbano Timirzi and Erin O'Reilly
Date:October 18, 2012

431.8 KiB
395 Downloads

Land Conflcts Along Highways in India: A Commentary on India's Agrarian to Industrial Transition

Balakrishnan.pdf
Author: Balakrishnan, Sai
Date:September 20, 2012

1.7 MiB
789 Downloads

Grassroots Masquerades: Development, Paramilitaries, and Land Laundering in Colombia

ballve.pdf
Author: Ballve, Teo
Date:October 11, 2012

485.8 KiB
538 Downloads

UN Special Rapporteur Human Rights Condemnation: Corporate Land Grabbing for Coal Mining in Bangladesh

Heather P. Bedi.pdf
Author: Bedi, Heather P.
Date:September 20, 2012

522.5 KiB
389 Downloads

How and why chiefs formalize relationship with land users in recent times: Illuminating the politics of land dispossessions during land transactions for biofuels investments in Ghana

Festus Boamah.pdf
Author: Boamah, Festus
Date:September 20, 2012

661.8 KiB
455 Downloads

Governance and resistance in Jujuy: territorial discourses and mechanisms of land control

brent.pdf
Author: Brent, Zoe
Date:October 10, 2012

513.7 KiB
466 Downloads

Landscapes of Fear: Water Grabbing, Wetland Conservation, and the Violence of Property in Colombia

camargo.pdf
Author: Camargo, Alejandro
Date:September 27, 2012

2.9 MiB
448 Downloads

Dividing Environments: Rural Dispossession, Land Enclosures and the Construction of Environmental Resources in China

chen.pdf
Author: Chen, Jia-ching
Date:October 3, 2012

678.3 KiB
406 Downloads

A Critique of the government responses on oppositions and protests over land grabs in Malawi: A case study of the Chinese and Madonna’s Raising Malawi project land leases in Salima and Lilongwe districts respectively

Victor Chikaipa.pdf
Author: Chikaipa, Victor
Date:September 20, 2012

2.6 MiB
1306 Downloads

Land Grabbing, Agribusiness and the Peasantry in Brazil and Mozambique

Clements_Fernandes.pdf
Author: Clements, Elizabeth Alice and Bernardo Mancano Fernandex
Date:September 20, 2012

672.5 KiB
441 Downloads

What's in a Right? Gold mining, decentralisation and neoliberalisation in Burkina Faso

cote.pdf
Author: Cote, Muriel
Date:October 18, 2012

543.7 KiB
292 Downloads

Geographies of Construction and Trajectories of Agrarian Change in Oil-Boom Angola

degrassi.pdf
Author: De Grassi, Aaron
Date:October 17, 2012

467.3 KiB
436 Downloads

The corporate standard and the reproduction of the dominant class in Egypt

M_Dixon_LDPI_2012_final[1].pdf
Author: Dixon, Marion
Date:September 20, 2012

1.1 MiB
493 Downloads

Social Reproduction, Accumulation and Class Differentiation: Small-scale Sugarcane Growers in Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

dubb.pdf
Author: Dubb, Alex
Date:October 5, 2012

552.3 KiB
344 Downloads

The formalization fix? Land titling, state land concessions and geographical transparency in contemporary Cambodia

dwyer.pdf
Author: Dwyer, Michael Benjamin
Date:September 28, 2012

567.3 KiB
511 Downloads

Can 'responsible soy' production justify the concentration of land in Paraguay? A critical analysis of five claims about environmental, economic, and social sustainability

elgert.pdf
Author: Elgert, Laureen
Date:September 20, 2012

865.3 KiB
590 Downloads

Extraction and displacement: the potential social and environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing in South Africa

Fig.pdf
Author: Fig, David
Date:October 8, 2012

759.0 KiB
554 Downloads

The Commission of Inquiry Into Special Agricultural and Business Leases in Papua New Guinea: Fresh Details for the Portrait of a Process of Expropriation

filer.pdf
Author: Filer, Colin
Date:October 18, 2012

545.1 KiB
571 Downloads

'Unused' Land and Unfulfilled Promises: Justifications for Displacing Communities in East Africa

galaty.pdf
Author: Galaty, John G.
Date:October 15, 2012

1.3 MiB
451 Downloads

Multi-level governance of large-scale land acquisitions: Mapping and evaluating the terrain

german.pdf
Author: German, Laura
Date:October 8, 2012

541.5 KiB
684 Downloads

The rubber-tree boom in Cambodia: Assessing small landholders' optimism

gironde.pdf
Author: Gironde, Christophe
Date:October 18, 2012

563.2 KiB
658 Downloads

How different are the UK and China? "Land grabbing" countries in comparative perspective

goetz.pdf
Author: Goetz, Ariane
Date:October 10, 2012

736.2 KiB
345 Downloads

The frontiers of genetically modified soya in Argentina. Possession Rights and New Forms of Land Control and Governance

goldfarb.pdf
Author: Goldfarb, Lucia
Date:October 15, 2012

367.6 KiB
454 Downloads

Pathways of Transnational Collaboration in Promoting Small-Scale and Organic Agriculture in Latin America: The Dynamics of Alternative Interactions

graef.pdf
Author: Graef, Dana
Date:October 3, 2012

510.7 KiB
695 Downloads

Where is Japan in the Global Land Grab Debate

hall.pdf
Author: Hall, Derek
Date:September 25, 2012

728.6 KiB
399 Downloads

Foxes Guarding the Hen-house: The Fragmentation of 'The Staet' in Negotiations ovre Land Deals in Congo and Mozambique

Hall(2).pdf
Author: Hall, Ruth and Gaynor Paradza
Date:October 15, 2012

704.6 KiB
448 Downloads

The Missing Middle: Exploring Mozambican Refusals and Preferences in Agricultural Directions

hammar.pdf
Author: Hammar, Amanda
Date:October 1, 2012

364.4 KiB
293 Downloads

State Land Transfers and Local Authorities in Zambia

honig.pdf
Author: Honig, Lauren
Date:October 3, 2012

884.4 KiB
355 Downloads

Jordanian Investments in Agriculture Abroad and at Home: the quest for secure access to food

hopma.pdf
Author: Hopma, Justa
Date:October 10, 2012

835.3 KiB
1328 Downloads

Consolidating land, consolidating control: What future for smallholder farming in Rwanda’s ‘Green Revolution’?

Huggins.pdf
Author: Huggins, Chris
Date:September 25, 2012

2.0 MiB
310 Downloads

Land Acquisitions: How will they Impact Transboundary Waters?

Jagerskog_Cascao.pdf
Author: Jagerskog, A., A. Cascao, M. Harsmar and K. Kim
Date:September 20, 2012

496.1 KiB
737 Downloads

Green Governance or Green Grab? The biopolitics of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and its processes in Ecuador

johnson.pdf
Author: Johnson, Adrienne
Date:September 21, 2012

710.1 KiB
256 Downloads

Property and Negotiation in Waza National Park

kelly.pdf
Author: Kelly, Alice
Date:October 10, 2012

817.5 KiB
599 Downloads

Land Grabs,Women's Farming, and Women's Activism in Africa

Koopman.pdf
Author: Koopman, Jeanne and Iba Mar Faye
Date:October 10, 2012

1.1 MiB
1343 Downloads

South Korean External Strategy Qualms: Analysis of Korean Overseas Agricultural Investment within the Global Food System

lee.pdf
Author: Lee, Su-Kyeung and Anders Riel Müller
Date:September 20, 2012

871.0 KiB
359 Downloads

Impact of Restrictive Legislation and Popular Opposition Movements on Foreign Land Investmetns in Brazil: The Case of the Foretry and Pulp Paper Sector and Stora Enzo

lerrer.pdf
Author: Lerrer, Debora and John Wilkinson
Date:October 2, 2012

666.1 KiB
1019 Downloads

The Politics of Dispossession: Theorizing India’s “Land Wars”

Levien.pdf
Author: Levien, Michael
Date:September 25, 2012

1.4 MiB
716 Downloads

What is Land? Anthropological Perspectives on the Global Land Rush

li.pdf
Author: Li, Tania
Date:October 15, 2012

689.4 KiB
398 Downloads

A Case Study of Land Transfer in Rural China

Kan Liu.pdf
Author: Liu, Kan
Date:September 20, 2012

440.6 KiB
630 Downloads

Corruption and large-scale land acquisitions: an analysis of the role high level corruption plays in enabling elite capture of land

macinnes.pdf
Author: MacInnes, Megan
Date:October 10, 2012

658.3 KiB
669 Downloads

Challenging the Dominant Assumptions About Peasants' Responses to Land Grabbing: A Study of Diverse Political Reactions from Below on the Example of Ukraine

mamanova.pdf
Author: Mamonova, Natalie
Date:September 25, 2012

943.6 KiB
503 Downloads

Land Reform, Large-Scale Commercial Agriculture and the Agrarian Question of Labour in the Levubu Valley, Limpopo Province, South Africa

manenzhe.pdf
Author: Manenzhe, Tshililo
Date:October 18, 2012

300.3 KiB
609 Downloads

Land Grabbing and Global Governance: Some Initial Observations

margulis.pdf
Author: Margulis, Matias E.
Date:September 21, 2012

474.4 KiB
494 Downloads

The Accumulation of Dispossession and Resistance in Northern Uganda

martiniello.pdf
Author: Martiniello, Giuliano
Date:October 10, 2012

269.1 KiB
464 Downloads

Selling nature through green grabbing: discourses and resistances

McAfee, Kathleen.pdf
Author: McAfee, Kathleen
Date:September 19, 2012

643.8 KiB
446 Downloads

Rubber, rights and resistance: the evolution of local struggles against a Chinese rubber concession in Northern Laos

mcallister.pdf
Author: McAllister, Karen
Date:October 10, 2012

2.1 MiB
356 Downloads

The Sugarcane Industry and the Global Econmic Crisis

mendoncafin.pdf
Author: Mendonca, Maria Luisa, Fabio T. Pitta and Carlos Vincius Xavier
Date:October 22, 2012

520.5 KiB
330 Downloads

Property and Collectivity: The Making of Ethnic Claims to Land Restitution in Colombia

morris.pdf
Author: Morris, Meghan L.
Date:October 10, 2012

743.3 KiB
336 Downloads

Commercialization, de-agrianisation and the accumulation/reproduction dynamic: massive maize production schemes in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

mtero.pdf
Author: Mtero, Ferai
Date:October 10, 2012

1.2 MiB
390 Downloads

Reading Fractures Resistances

menezesfin.pdf
Author: Mujumdar, Rohit and Benita Menezes
Date:October 23, 2012

293.4 KiB
485 Downloads

Large Scale Land Deals, Global Capital and the Politics of Livelihoods: Experiences of Women Small- Holder Farmers in Chisumbanje, Zimbabwe

Cornell- Mutopo and Chiweshe- Large Scale Land Deals and the Politics of Livelihoods.pdf
Author: Mutopo, Patience and Manase Chiweshe
Date:September 17, 2012

796.2 KiB
815 Downloads

The Global Land Rush: Markets, Rights and the Politics of Food

naural.pdf
Author: Narula, Smita
Date:October 2, 2012

1.1 MiB
835 Downloads

Land Grabbing in Cambodia: Narratives, Mechanisms, Resistance

Neef.pdf
Author: Neef, Andreas and Siphat Touch
Date:September 21, 2012

891.9 KiB
1475 Downloads

Land Grabbing and Political Transformation in Tanzania

nelson.pdf
Author: Nelson, Fred, Emmanuel Sulle and Edward Lekaita
Date:October 18, 2012

926.5 KiB
686 Downloads

The Displacement and Dispossession of the Aweer (Boni) Community: The Kenya Government dilemna on the new Port of Lamu

nunow.pdf
Author: Nunow, Abdirizak Arale
Date:October 10, 2012

795.1 KiB
234 Downloads

Land appropriation under changing environmental governance in the Amazon: The cases of lowland Bolivia and the State of Para, Brazil

pacheco.pdf
Author: Pacheco, Pablo and Jose Heder Benatti
Date:November 30, 2012

1.2 MiB
395 Downloads

Mega-Projects and State-Driven Land Grabbing in Brazil: Violence and Dispossession in the Name of Economic Development

Pedlowski_paper.pdf
Author: Pedlowski, Marcos Antonio
Date:September 20, 2012

493.5 KiB
559 Downloads

Land enclosures, surplus people and a battle over visions of futures in Africa

PetersPauline.pdf
Author: Peters, Pauline E.
Date:September 20, 2012

3.9 MiB
416 Downloads

Negotiating gendered property relations over land: oil palm expansion in Kalangala district, Uganda

Piacenzar.pdf
Author: Piacenza, Claudia
Date:October 11, 2012

671.5 KiB
396 Downloads

Theorizing Sovereignty in Empty Land: the Land Tenure Implications of Concentrated Solar Power in pre-Saharan Morocco

rignall.pdf
Author: Rignall, Karen
Date:October 2, 2012

827.8 KiB
542 Downloads

Resistance to Land Grabs and Peasants' Practices of Citizenship in Democratic Development States: Case Studies from India

Droy.pdf
Author: Roy, Devparna
Date:September 21, 2012

784.5 KiB
231 Downloads

Sugarcane Ethanol Production in Colombia: Assessing the Potential of Bonsucro Certification for Addressing Land and Water "Grabs"

selfafin.pdf
Author: Selfa, Theresa, Carmen Bain, and Renata Moreno
Date:December 5, 2012

1.2 MiB
423 Downloads

The Quest for Development Through Dispossession: Examining Amuru Sugar Works in Lakang-Amuru District of Northern Uganda

serwajja.pdf
Author: Serwajja, Eria
Date:September 21, 2012

767.1 KiB
806 Downloads

Rural-Urban Migration and Domestic Land Grabbing in China: Drivers, Impacts and Trade-offs

siciliano.pdf
Author: Siciliano, Giuseppina
Date:September 25, 2012

527.3 KiB
298 Downloads

Accumulation by Reconversion in Southern Mexico

sinkler.pdf
Author: Sinkler, Adrian
Date:October 11, 2012

1.0 MiB
455 Downloads

"A fam manager should get his hands dirty". Global land acquisitions and the export of western farm models to Russia

steggerda.pdf
Author: Steggerda, Michelle and Oane Visser
Date:October 12, 2012

947.7 KiB
657 Downloads

Governance of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Uganda: The role of the Uganda Investment Authority

stickler.pdf
Author: Stickler, M. Mercedes
Date:September 21, 2012

288.2 KiB
401 Downloads

"Occupying" Agribusiness: Land Protest Camps and Third Party Labor Contractors in Mato Gross do Sul, Brazil

sullivan.pdf
Author: Sullivan, LaShandra
Date:September 26, 2012

1.4 MiB
612 Downloads

Land Grabbing and Speculation for Energy Business: A Case Study of ExxonMobil Business Expansion in Bojonegoro of East Java, Indonesia

suryana.pdf
Author: Suryana, Erwin and Dianto Bachriadi
Date:October 23, 2012

483.4 KiB
753 Downloads

Mapping resistance & resilience to the global landgrab: definitions, financial activism and alliances

Temper_Alier_LDPI.pdf
Author: Temper, Leah and Joan Martinez-Alier
Date:September 17, 2012

301.1 KiB
246 Downloads

Conservation and Development: Justice, Inequality, and Attitudes around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

tumusiime(2).pdf
Author: Tumusiime, David Mwesigye and Espen Sjaastad
Date:October 11, 2012

1.1 MiB
709 Downloads

Sector-Wide Analysis of U.S. Investment in Large-Scale Land Acquisitions

oxfamfin.pdf
Author: Tumusiime, Emmanuel
Date:October 15, 2012

866.5 KiB
474 Downloads

Gaining neighbours or disruptive factors – what happened when large-scale land-based investment in the Ghanaian oil palm sector met the local population on the ground?

Vath.pdf
Author: Väth, Susanne Johanna
Date:September 25, 2012

1.1 MiB
420 Downloads

Resisting Land Grabbing in Latin America during the Cold War and Globalization Eras

welchfin.pdf
Author: Welch, Clifford Andrew
Date:October 18, 2012

842.6 KiB
570 Downloads

Let Them Eat (Maize) Cake: Climate Change Discourse, Misinformation and Land Grabbing in Tanzania

wisner.pdf
Author: Wisner, Ben; Adolfo Mascarehas, Charles Bwenge, Tom Smucker, Edna Wargui, Dan Weiner and Pantaleo Munishi
Date:September 26, 2012

647.6 KiB
518 Downloads

Climate-Friendly Agriculture and the Clean Development Mechanisms: An assessment of future prospects for agriculture and land use change in Latin America

wittman.pdf
Author: Wittman, Hannah
Date:October 10, 2012

850.7 KiB
449 Downloads

Commoning, Dispossession Projects and Resistance: A Land Dispossession Project for Sand Iron Mining in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

yanuardy.pdf
Author: Yanuardy, Dian
Date:October 15, 2012