Jun Borras

Jun Borras

Associate Professor in Rural Development at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) 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. Jun is also Adjunct Professor, COHD at China Agricultural University, Beijing; a Fellow for Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy in California and Coordinator for Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS).

Areas of expertise:

Rural social movements; food sovereignty

Honours/Awards:

National Book Award (Social Sciences) in Philippines, 2009

Contact

junborras[at]yahoo[dot]com;

borras[at]iss[dot]nl

English, Tagalog, Bicolano, Conversational Cebuano

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Selected publications

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

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Recent content by Jun Borras

Governing the Global Land Grab

June 2013
Food sovereignty: , Land sovereignty:
The rise of flex crops—crops with multiple uses across food, feed, fuel and industrial complexes—has far-reaching implications for global land governance.

Competing political tendencies in global governance of land grabbing

December 2012
Land sovereignty:
Three political tendencies have emerged in response to land grabbing that are shaping the global debate and the potential future trajectory of land governance.

Resisting contemporary land grabs

October 2012
Land sovereignty:
Land grabs do not always play out the way the investors and their government backers expect, and people are mobilising to resist them.

A ‘Land Sovereignty’ Alternative?

September 2012
'Green Economy': , Land sovereignty:
Dramatic changes around food, climate, energy, and finance in recent years have pushed questions of land use and land control back onto the centre stage of development discourse, at the very moment when the same conditions are spurring an unprecedented rush for land and water across the globe.

A ‘Land Sovereignty’ Alternative?

July 2012
Land sovereignty:
Land sovereignty is the right of working peoples to have effective access to, use of, and control over land and the benefits of its use and occupation, where land is understood as resource, territory, and landscape.

Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis

December 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.
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Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean in broader international perspectives

December 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

October 2011
Land sovereignty:
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

August 2011
International Investment Regime and BITs: , Land Reform:
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

July 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.