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

The global resource grab

June 2011
Water Grabbing:
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

June 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

June 2011
Water Grabbing:
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

June 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'

April 2011
Land sovereignty:
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.

It's time for food sovereignty!

January 2011
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.
Political Dynamics of Land-grabbing in Southeast Asia: Understanding Europe's Ro

Political Dynamics of Land-grabbing in Southeast Asia: Understanding Europe's Role

January 2011
Land Reform:
The European Union is a significant player in the widespread occurrence of land-grabbing in Southeast Asia; both through its corporate sector and public policies.

Regulating landgrabbing?

December 2010
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.

TNI -Sponsored land grabbing side event at the FAO Food Security World Committee session, Rome 2010

November 2010
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.

The Politics of Transnational Agrarian Movements

October 2010
Transnational Agrarian Movements (TAMs) have emerged in the last decade, resisting and contesting unfair land policies; but how do they differ from region to region, and how do their ideological, political and institutional differences affect their relationship to international development agencies?