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Eric Holt-Giménez: What's wrong with the industrial food system and the challenges facing food justice movements
January 2012
Eric Holt-Giménez

In the industrial or corporate food regime, hunger is a staple commodity. Agrarian and food justice movements have come a long way in building an alternative system, but there are still many challenges.

Miguel Altieri: On agroecology, and why it is the solution to hunger and food security
January 2012
Miguel Altieri

Today, a billion people live in hunger. Can we feed the world and achieve economic development while conserving ecosystems and improving the livelihoods of peasants and the rural poor?

Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis
December 2011
Jennifer Franco
Jun Borras

The politics of change in land use and in property relations linked to cases of land grabbing are not well understood, and yet are crucial to a deeper understanding of the phenomenon; this paper explores these topics, providing a preliminary analysis.

Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean in broader international perspectives
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December 2011
Jun Borras
Jennifer Franco
 Cristobal Kay, Max Spoor

A critical re-assessment of a UN FAO study on land grabbing finds that a too-narrow definition has obscured evidence of land grabbing on a wider geographical scale than previously thought; this research includes new evidence of cases in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Land, conflict and the challenge of pro-poor peace-building
October 2011
Jennifer Franco
Jun Borras

There is a lot of contention over approaches to land reform policy, in terms of how to involve the state, the market and communities; but what matters most for a socio-economically and politically sustainable solution, is that the policy is genuinely 'pro-poor'.

The Land Deal Politics Initiative
October 2011

The Land Deal Politics Initiative calls for applications to their small grant competition. Grants are available to undertake original field research, carry out follow up fieldwork on an ongoing related initiative, or write up a paper based on research. 

Why so-called "Responsible Agricultural Investment" must be stopped
April 2011

Wealthy interests are pushing to normalise the concept of "responsible agricultural investment" but this corporate lingo masks the mass appropriation of land at the cost of local inhabitants (often forcibly removed), the destruction of livelihoods and the environment.

The hidden impact of land deals in developing countries to be revealed
April 2011

The vacant land discourse, promoted by some land deals, is fundamentally flawed. Cases of deals made for land that is unclaimed, unused or unoccupied by local people is simply untrue.

Debating the Global Land Grab
March 2011

Coinciding with the Global Land Grab conference held at the University of Sussex, three leading commentators debate the politics of land deals; contrasting a World Bank "code of conduct" perspective with more critical analysis looking at human rights and labour issues.

The Many Faces of the Investor Rush in Southern Africa
March 2011
Ruth Hall

This working paper reviews the latest experiences of land grabbing in Southern Africa, detailing questions of scale and duration, initiation, negotiation processes, production sectors, employment, natural resource use and more.

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