Conference Papers










































































No.

Name 

Paper title

1

Abdirizak Nunow

The Dynamics of Land Deals in the Tana Delta, Kenya

2

Alberto Alonso-Fradejas

Expansion of oil palm agribusinesses over indigenous-peasant lands and territories in Guatemala: Fuelling a new cycle of agrarian accumulation, territorial dominance and social vulnerability?”

3

Andrea Bues

Agricultural Foreign Direct Investment and Water Rights – an institutional analysis

from Ethiopia

4

Brenda Baletti

Saving the Amazon? Land grabs and “sustainable soy” as the new logic of conservation

5

Cécile Famerée

Land grabbing and popular resistance: case studies in the Peruvian jungle

6

Claude Fortin

The Biofuel Boom and Indonesia’s Oil Palm Industry: The Twin Processes of Peasant Dispossession and Adverse Incorporation in West Kalimantan

7

Colin Filer

The New Land Grab In Papua New Guinea

8

Dana Graef

Legacies of Transnational Mining and Hydropower in Defining Costa Rican Environmental Sovereignty

9

Derek Hall

Land Control, Land Grabs, and Southeast Asian Crop Booms

10

Diana Ojeda

Whose Paradise? Conservation, tourism and land grabbing in Tayrona Natural Park, Colombia

11

Elisa Da Vià

The Politics of “Win-Win” Narratives: Land Grabs as Development Opportunity?

12

Eric Holt-Gimenez

13

Festus Boamah

The relationship between land grabbing for biofuels and food security, a bane or boon? The food security implications of jatropha biodiesel project in Northern Ghana

14

Giuseppina Siciliano

Urbanisation strategies and agrarian change in Eastern China: a multilevel integrated assessment

15

Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira

Land regularization in Brazil and the global land grab: a state-making framework for analysis

16

I Hofman

Land Grabbing or Global Outsourcing: The Case of China

17

Janette Bulkan

Red Star over Guyana’: colonial-style grabbing of natural resources but new grabbers

18

Jennifer Baka

Biofuels and Wasteland Development: How India’s Biofuel Policy is Aiding in Community Land Privatization in Tamil Nadu

19

An Ansoms

The ‘bitter fruit’ of a new agrarian model: Large-scale land deals and local livelihoods in Rwanda

20

John McCarthy

A Land Grab Scenario for Indonesia? Diverse Trajectories and Virtual Land Grabs in the Outer Islands 

21

John. A. Mope Simo

Land grabbing, governance and social peace-building issues in Cameroon: Case study of the roles of elites in land deals and commoditisation in the North West Region

22

Joseph Mujere

Large-scale investment projects and land grabs in Zimbabwe: The case of the Nuanetsi Ranch Bio-Diesel project

23

Kathleen Guillozet

Household Livelihoods and Increasing Foreign Investment Pressure in Ethiopia’s Natural Forests

24

Kojo Amanor

Global Landgrabs, Agribusiness and  the Commercial Smallholder: A West African perspective (19)

25

Kyla Tienhaara

Negotiating Carbon Concessions in Developing Countries: Issues of Capacity, Confidentiality & Corruption  

26

Laksmi A. Savitri

Naturalizing Land Dispossession: A Policy Discourse Analysis of the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE), Papua, Indonesia 

27

LaShandra P. Sullivan

The Space to Be Ourselves”: Ethanol, Ethnicity and Land

Conflict on a Brazilian “Frontier

28

Laura German

Processes of Large-Scale Land Acquisition by Investors: Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa 

29

Laura Silva Castañeda

Certification systems and land conflicts: the case of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

30

Lila Buckley

Eating Bitter to Taste Sweet: An Ethnographic Sketch of a Chinese Agricultural Project in Senegal 

31

Liz Alden Wily

Nothing new under the sun or a new battle joined? The political economy of African dispossession in the current global land rush (28)

32

Madeleine Fairbairn

Indirect expropriation: The role of national politics and domestic elites in the Mozambican farmland grab  

33

Mark Maughan

Land grab and oil palm in Colombia

34

Markus Zander

Dynamics of change in land tenure, local power and the peasant economy: the case of Petén, Guatemala

35

Martina Locher

‘How come that others are selling our land?’ – Customary Land Rights, Rural Livelihoods and Foreign Land Acquisition in the Case of a UK-based Forestry Company in Tanzania

36

Maru Shete Bekele

Implications of land deals to livelihood security and natural resource management in Benshanguel Gumuz regional state, Ethiopia

37

Tania Salerno

Peasants and transnational land deals in Mindanao, The Philippines

38

Mateo y Teran

Strengths and limitations of the Round Table for Responsible Soy – RTRS in Mato Grosso, Brazil

39

Megan Ybarra

Taming the Jungle, Saving the Maya Forest: The Military’s Role in Guatemalan Conservation

40

Marcel Rutten

Selling Wealth to Buy Poverty: 20 years of titling experiences in semi-arid Kenya: raising security or a sell out to foreign investors?

41

Melissa Leach

Land grabs for biochar? 

Narratives and counter-narratives in Africa’s emerging biogenic carbon sequestration economy

42

Phil Woodhouse

Is Water the Hidden Agenda of Agricultural Land Acquisition in sub-Saharan Africa?

43

Michael Dwyer

Building the politics machine: Tools for resolving the global land grab

44

Michael Levien

The Land Question: Special Economic Zones and the Political Economy of Dispossession in India

45

Michel Merlet

Land grabbing and share of the added value in agricultural processes. A new look at distribution of land revenues

46

Miles Kenney-Lazar

Dispossession, semi-proletarianization, and enclosure: primitive accumulation and the land grab in Laos

47

Nadia Cuffaro

Land Grabbing” in Developing Countries:  Foreign Investors, Regulation and Codes of Conduct 

48

Paulette Nonfodji

China’s Farmland Rush in Benin: Toward a Win-Win Economic Model of Cooperation?

49

Perrien Burnod

From International Land Deals to Local Informal Agreements:  Regulations of and Reactions to Agricultural Investments in Madagascar

50

Philip Hirsch

Titling against grabbing?  Critiques and conundrums around land formalisation in Southeast Asia  

51

Philip McMichael

The food regime in the land grab: articulating ‘global ecology’ and political economy (29)

52

Randi Kaarhus

Agricultural Development Corridors equals Land-grabbing? Models, roles and accountabilities in a Mozambican case

53

Robin Palmer

Would Cecil Rhodes have signed a Code of Conduct? Reflections on Global Land Grabbing and Land Rights in Africa, Past and Present

54

Roosbelinda Cardenas Gonzales

After titling: Oil palm landscapes and Afro-Colombian territories

55

Ruth Meinzen-Dick

The Gender Implications of Large Scale Land Deals

56

Samuel B. Mabikke

Escalating land grabbing in post-conflict regionsof Northern Uganda: A Need for Strengthening Land Governance in Acholi Region

57

Sandra Evers

Development as a Trojan Horse?  Intermediality as Tool of Analysis of Foreign Large-scale Land Acquisitions in Developing Countries (19) 

58

Devparna Roy

Gujarat’s Gain and Bengal’s Loss? Development, Land acquisition in India and the Tata Nano Project: A comparison of Singur with Sanand

59

Sergio Sauer

Agrarian structure, foreign land ownership, and land price in Brazil

60

Shepard Daniel

The role of the international finance corporation in promoting agricultural investment and large-scale land acquisitions. 

61

Sofia Monsalve Suarez

The  Role of the EU in Land Grabbing in Africa – CSO Monitoring 2009-2010 “Advancing African Agriculture” (AAA): The Impact of Europe’s Policies and Practices on African Agriculture and Food Security  

62

Teo Ballvé

Territory by Dispossession: Decentralization, Statehood, and the Narco Land-Grab in Colombia

63

Thea Hilhorst

Agrarian change under the radar screen: Rising farmland acquisitions by domestic investors in West Africa -Results from a survey in Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger  

64

Tom Lavers

The role of foreign investment in Ethiopia’s smallholder-focused agricultural development strategy

65

Vidya Bhushan Rawat

Special Economic Zones in India with particular reference to land acquisition in Polepally, Andhra Pradesh

66

Willem Odendaal

Land grabbing in Namibia

67

Xiubin Li

Farmland grabs by urban sprawl and their impacts on peasants’ livelihood in China: An overview

68

Yulian Junaidi Jasuan

Land Grabbing in Indonesia