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Jun Borras

Associate Professor in Rural Development, Environment and Population at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, Netherlands. Jun is also Adjunct Professor, COHD at China Agricultural University, Beijing; a Fellow for Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy in California, Coordinator for Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS), and Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS).

Saturnino 'Jun' M Borras Jr. is a political activist and academic who has been deeply involved in rural social movements in the Philippines and internationally since the early 1980s. Borras was part of the core organising team that established the international peasant movement La Via Campesina and has written extensively on land issues and agrarian movements.

Rural social movements; food sovereignty

National Book Award (Social Sciences) in Philippines, 2009

English, Tagalog, Bicolano, Conversational Cebuano

Selected publications: 
Competing views and strategies on agrarian reform
Pro - Poor Land Reform: A Critique

Recent content by Jun Borras

Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis (15 Dec 2011)

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 (7 Dec 2011)

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 (25 Oct 2011)

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'.

Land tenure and International Investments in agriculture (9 Aug 2011)

In the midst of a raging famine in the Horn of Africa and continuing expansion of land grabbing across the Global South, a new and critical report has been released by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition, of the Committee on World Food Security.

Meeting the challenge of feeding the world and cooling the Earth (12 Jul 2011)

Two papers analysing the recent experience of Latin America, and Cuba in particular, support arguments that a shift from industrial-large scale farming to small-scale farming can bring environmental, economic and political benefits.

The global resource grab (30 Jun 2011)

Worsening climate change and the emergence of new economic powers is leading to a renewed scramble for resources, with negative consequences for many impoverished communities.

The Agrarian Roots of Violent Conflict (29 Jun 2011)

Conflict in Southern Philippines is caused as much by agrarian economics and politics as ethnic and religious differences.

The Politics of Agrofuels and Mega-land and Water deals (29 Jun 2011)

The Procana Bioethanol project in Mozambique is a clear example of how agrofuel investments contribute rather than mitigate climate change, and are often accompanied by dispossession and impoverishment caused by landgrabbing.

Landgrabs, conflict and the agro-industrial complex (22 Jun 2011)

The latest research on landgrabbing exposes the myth of 'reserve agricultural land' and highlights the new economic players  behind the latest wave of dispossession across the South.

Small-scale farmers increasingly at risk from 'global land grabbing' (15 Apr 2011)

New research on the global rush for agricultural land shows that small-scale farmers will increasingly lose out to major corporations as land deals ignore local tenure rights.

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