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Land and Water Grabbing

Land, Sea and Food

In recent years, various actors, from big foreign and domestic corporate business and finance to governments, have initiated a large-scale worldwide enclosure of agricultural lands, mostly in the Global South but also elsewhere. This is done for large-scale industrial and industrial agriculture ventures and often packaged as large-scale investment for rural development. But rather than being investment to benefit the majority of rural people, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, this process constitutes a new wave of land and water ‘grabbing’. It is a global phenomenon whereby the access, use and right to land and other closely associated natural resources is being taken over - on a large-scale and/or by large-scale capital – resulting in a cascade of negative impacts on rural livelihoods and ecologies, human rights, and local food security.

 

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  • Scholar-Activism and Land Struggles

    • Land Sovereignty
    • Land and Water Grabbing
    • Climate Crisis

    This book is about scholar-activism and political struggles for land. Scholar-activism is a way of working that tries to change society by combining the best features of radical academic and political activist traditions, despite the many contradictions and challenges that this entails. The role played by scholar-activists in land struggles is important, but is not straightforward. This book unapologetically celebrates the contributions of scholar-activism in land struggles and scholarship, but more than this, it is about exploring the contradictions and challenges facing scholar-activism. It is neither a glorification of the achievements of scholar-activism, nor a set of prescriptive propositions on how to ‘do’ scholar-activism. Rather, it addresses contentious issues in scholar-activism, many of which are rarely discussed, or are discussed only gingerly and awkwardly when they cannot be avoided. It is a book written by two scholar-activists who have focused their individual and collaborative research and activist works on the politics of land and the role played by radical agrarian movements. Insights in this book are drawn on the experiences of the authors working in the three main sites of global knowledge circuits: academic institutions, independent research institutions oriented to practical politics, and left-wing agrarian movements. Order Print Copy

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  • Extractivism and resistance in North Africa

    • Just Transition
    • Climate Crisis
    • Land and Water Grabbing
    • Middle East and North Africa
    Report by
    Hamza Hamouchene

  • Ukrainian agriculture in wartime Resilience, reforms, and markets

    • Land and Water Grabbing
    • Agroecology
    • Food Sovereignty
    Longread by
    • Natalia Mamonova
    • Olena Borodina
    • Brian Kuns

  • Understanding land politics

    • Just Transition
    • Land Sovereignty
    • Climate Crisis
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    Sylvia Kay

  • Roots of Resilience : Land Policy for an Agroecological Transition in Europe

    • Agroecology
    • Land Sovereignty
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  • Jennifer Franco Researcher

    • Land Policy in Myanmar
    • Land and Water Grabbing

  • Sylvia Kay Project Coordinator

    • Food Sovereignty
    • Land and Water Grabbing

  • Jun Borras Associate

    • Flex Crops
    • Land and Water Grabbing
    • Agroecology

  • Katie Sandwell Programme Coordinator

    • Food Sovereignty
    • Agroecology
    • Just Transition
    • Land and Water Grabbing

  • Zoe Brent Researcher

    • Fisheries and Fisher peoples
    • Agroecology
    • Food Sovereignty
    • Land and Water Grabbing

Extractivism and Resistance in North Africa

In conversation with Hamza Hamouchene

In this episode, Hamza Hamouchene discusses his report titled: Extractivism and Resistance in North Africa, which documents several cases of natural resource extraction which take the form of brutal "accumulation by dispossession," degrading environments and ecosystems through the privatisation and commodification of land and water.

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