Publications by Agrarian Justice

  • 40 Classics in The Journal of Peasant Studies
    May 2013

    Access 40 classic articles for free as The Journal of Peasant Studies celebrates its 40th Anniversary!

  • Land grabbing through a food security lens
    April 2013
    Gloria Pracucci

    Out of the kaleidoscope of different angles through which land grab can be analysed, the one elevating food security – and food sovereignty – as a crucial concern is amongst the most engaging and the less inquired, especially in its intertwining with policy elaboration.

  • Networking against Fracking
    April 2013
    Satoko Kishimoto

    Global networking is key to winning battle against fracking, say activists at WSF.

  • Are African land grabs really water grabs?
    March 2013
    Jennifer Franco
     Lyla Mehta, Gert Jan Veldwisch

    As land is grabbed and earmarked in Africa for supposed development, there are nearly always implications for the water nearby, for local people's land and water rights and environmental sustainability.

  • No hierarchy, equal access
    March 2013
    Sylvia Kay

    Horizontally structured initiatives, like farmer to farmer partnerships, are more equal forms of rural development than traditional public private partnerships (PPP). They provide equal access to technology and knowledge production, to land and markets.

  • Chinese fracking plans prompt “water-grabbing” fears
    March 2013
    Jennifer Franco
    Timothé Feodoroff

    China has become one of Asia's leaders in expanding unconventional shale-gas extraction in the name of energy self-sufficiency and national autonomy. Experiences of “fracking” worldwide, however, suggest the costs to China of joining this revolution will be loss of control of natural resources and land to major corporations, with negative social and environmental consequences for many communities.

  • Land Grabbing in Latin America
    January 2013

    A special issue of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies introducing a previously under-explored geographic region into the emerging land grab literature. Available for free till end of May.

  • On the Disappearance of Sombath Somphone
    January 2013
    Walden Bello

    The Asia-Europe People’s Forum requested a delegation of ASEAN parliamentarians to visit the Lao Peoples’ Democratic Republic to investigate the disappearance of Sombath Somphone, the prominent Lao leader of civil society. 

  • The impact of Alternative Development in Burma and Laos
    October 2012
    Ernestien Jensema

    Alternative development and crop substitution programmes seem to be a guise for the Chinese government to support large scale agro businesses in Northern Burma and Laos. 

  • Resisting contemporary land grabs
    October 2012
    Jun Borras

    Land grabs do not always play out the way the investors and their government backers expect, and people are mobilising to resist them.