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    Contemporary discourses and contestations around pro-poor land policies and land governance
    Jennifer Franco
    Jun Borras

    The concern for ‘pro-poor’ land policy has coincided with the mainstream promotion of efficient administration of land policies, leading to the concept of ‘land governance’. This paper aims at better understanding of contemporary policy discourses and political contestations around land and land...

    Australian Overseas Development Assistance and the Rural Poor
    Dianto Bachriadi

    Australian overseas development assistance is not simply driven by a desire to assist poorer countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The fundamental premise of Australian aid is, first and foremost, its own national interest.

    Opening the door to GM eggplant, a step towards disaster
    Praful Bidwai

    If we want sustainable agriculture that's appropriate to our climate, resources and food security, India must not open the door to genetically modified brinjal.

    Germany's Official Development Assistance in Land Policy
    Roman Herre

    The German government's involvement in land policy is reflected through its support for technical land administration and management in more than 20 countries, while the engagement in redistributive land policies like land reform is almost non-existent.

    Land Reform Policies in Belgian Official Development Assistance
    Jonas Vanreusel

    For the most part of its history, the Belgian Official Development Assistance (ODA) focused on narrow agricultural productivity issues. With the slow but steady insertion of Belgian ODA into the
    international development community’s priorities, instruments and methods, Belgium started to...

    Food Wars
    Walden Bello
     Mara Baviera

    In 2006–08, food shortages became a global reality, with the prices of commodities spiraling beyond the reach of vast numbers of people. International agencies were caught flatfooted, with the World Food Program warning that its rapidly diminishing food stocks might not be able to deal...

    Food Wars
    Walden Bello

    Crucial analysis of how the West created the global food crisis

    Land, Rural Social Movements and Democratisation in Indonesia
    TNI
     Dianto Bachriadi

    Although support from urban-based students and activists was important, the rural protest in Indonesia during President Suharto's regime was built on continued protest and organisation around land issues.

    The global food price crisis - a critique of orthodox perspectives
    TNI
     Walden Bello
    Capitalist industrial agriculture, with its wrenching destabilisation and transformation of land, nature, and social relations is responsible for today's food crises, argues Walden Bello.
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    CARPER: latest chapter in agri reform battle
    Walden Bello

    whether Philippines' Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law becomes truly a vehicle for advancing reform will depend on whether pro-reform forces can create, at the local level, the critical political mass involving farmers, progressive elements at the Department of Agrarian Reform, the Church, and...

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