Publications by Agrarian Justice

  • SOTU: Parsing Obama's 'Clean Energy' Promises
    February 2011

    Is there such a thing as clean coal, gas and nuclear power? What is the actual meaning of clean energy as mentioned by Obama in his State of the Union speech? And will it have any effect on climate change? 

  • It's time for food sovereignty!
    January 2011
    Jun Borras

    The Journal of Peasants Studies has made available a selection of research papers to download free: covering food sovereignty, the politics of land, agrofuels and justice movements.

  • Philippines: Food for a Rooted Future
    January 2011
    John Cavanagh
     Robin Broad

    The successful initiatives of farmers to take back control of their lives and gain food security are empowering communities in the Philippines and around the world.

  • Regulating landgrabbing?
    December 2010
    Jennifer Franco
    Jun Borras

    Calls for codes of conduct for landgrabbing not only fail to tackle the main drivers of land dispossession but also legitimise a new wave of land enclosures that will affect many vulnerable rural communities.

  • Zimbabwe's land reform ten years on: new study dispels the myths
    November 2010
    Ian Scoones

    Since Mugabe initiated a more aggressive land reform programme in Zimbabwe in 2000, the accepted wisdom was that it had been an unmitigated disaster. A new ten-year detailed study of one province in Zimbabwe challenges this view.

  • Zimbabwe's land reform ten years on: new study dispels the myths
    November 2010
    Ian Scoones and Blasio Mavedzenge

    Since Mugabe initiated a more aggressive land reform programme in Zimbabwe in 2000, the accepted wisdom was that it had been an unmitigated disaster. A new ten-year detailed study of one province in Zimbabwe challenges this view.

  • Food shouldn't be a pokerchip
    November 2010
    Sarah Anderson

    Excessive speculating makes for yo-yoing corn prices, pushing millions of people into hunger, while big-time gamblers exit in a stampede as soon as the price bubble threatens to pop.

  • TNI -Sponsored land grabbing side event at the FAO Food Security World Committee session, Rome 2010
    November 2010
    Jun Borras
    Lucia Goldfarb

    Leading academics discuss key issues regarding 'the global land grab' and how this is linked critically to official policies, like 'Responsible Agricultural Investment' (RAI), considering how small farmers are being dispossessed and incorporated into the agro-food-feed-fuel complex.

  • Investing in land: a commentary on the World Bank report
    September 2010
    Ian Scoones

    The World Bank's hyped report on land grabbing is confusing and disappointing, because its analysis lacks an understanding of what drives investments, what politics surrounds land deals, and the socio-political dynamics shaping livelihood outcomes.

  • The Global Land Grab Debate
    June 2010

    Global land grabbing has hit the media headlines and sparked fierce debate about how to both analyse the problem and possible solutions for preventing further dispossession.