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Markus Zander and Jochen Dürr??????
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – Dynamics in land tenure, local power and the peasant economy: the case of south-east Petén, Guatemala
Ye Jingzhong and Wang Chunyu?
April 13, 2011 / News Mining and Land in North China:politics and livelihoods
Megan Ybarra?
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – Taming the Jungle, Saving the Maya ForestThe Military’s Role in Guatemalan Conservation
Ward Anseeuw, Antoine Ducastel and Jean-Jacques Gabas?
April 13, 2011 / News The end of the African peasant?From investment funds and Finance-Value-Chains to questions about the African peasant
Oane Visser and Natalia Mamonova?
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – Land Deals in Russian Agriculture: Exploring investors land acquisition strategies
Tom Lavers
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – The role of foreign investment in Ethiopia’s smallholder-focused agricultural development strategy
Dr. Kyla Tienhaara & Dr. Wynet Smith
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – Negotiating Carbon Concessions in Developing Countries: Issues of Capacity, Confidentiality & Corruption
Thea Hilhorst, Joost Nelen, Nata Traoré
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – Agrarian change under the radar screenRising farmland acquisitions by domestic investors in West Africa Results from a survey in Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger
Tania Salerno
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – Transnational Land Deals in Mindanao: Situating Ambivalent Farmer Responses in Local Politics
Takeshi Ito, NoerFauziRachman, Laksmi Adriani Savitri
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – Naturalizing land dispossession: A policy discourse analysis of the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) Papau, Indonesia
Max Spoor? and Oane Visser
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – Land Grabbing in Former Soviet Eurasia
Laura Silva Castañeda?
April 13, 2011 / News Certification dispositifsand land conflicts:the case of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
Thomas Sikor?
April 13, 2011 / News Global enclosures? Exploring the dynamics of forest-based climate mitigation
ShapanAdnan
April 13, 2011 / News Resistance to accumulation by dispossession: Struggles for land by the poor peasantry in rural Bangladesh
Sérgio Sauer
April 13, 2011 / News Agrarian structure, foreign land ownership, and land value in Brazil
Rosanne Rutten & Gerben Nooteboom
April 13, 2011 / News GulfState Investments in Indonesiaand The Philippines
Ritu Verma
April 13, 2011 / News The ‘New’ Politics of Land and Development: Experiences of Dispossession, Social/Gender Equity and Environmental Sustainability in East & Southern Africa
Randi Kaarhus
April 13, 2011 / News Agricultural growth corridors equals Land Grabbing? Models, roles, and accountibilities in a Mozambican case
Rachel Nalepa??
April 13, 2011 / News Aquestion of scale: the construction of marginal lands and the limitations of global land classifications
Philip Hirsch
April 13, 2011 / News Titling against grabbing? Critiques and conundrums around land formalisation in Southeast Asia
Perrine Burnod, Mathilde Gingembre, Rivo Andrianirina-Ratsialonana, Raphael Ratovoarinony???????
April 13, 2011 / News From International Land Deals to Local Informal Agreements in Madagascar: Regulations of and Local Reactions to Agricultural Investments
Paulette Nonfodji???
April 13, 2011 / News China’s Farmland Rush in Benin: Towards a Win-Win Economic Model?
Patience Mutopo?
April 13, 2011 / News Gendered Realities: Bio fuel Production and the Politics of Displacement after land reform in Zimbabwe
P Woodhouse and AS Ganho?
April 13, 2011 / News Is Water the Hidden Agenda of Agricultural LandAcquisition in Sub-Saharan Africa?
L. T. Oliveira???
April 13, 2011 / News Land Regularization in Brazil and the Global Land Grab: A State-making Framework for Analysis
Melanie Sommerville ???
April 13, 2011 / News First Nations, Marginalization and Agro-Investments in Canada: The Case of One Earth Farms
NC Davis and E Lahiff???
April 13, 2011 / News Joint ventures in South Africa’s land reform programme: strategic partnerships or strategic resource grab?
Michael Dwyer
April 13, 2011 / News Building the politics machine Tools for resolving the global land grab
Melissa Leach, James Fairhead and James Fraser?
April 13, 2011 / News Land Grabs for Biochar? Narratives and Counter Narratives in Africa’s Emerging Biogenic Carbon Sequestration Economy
Mateo Mier y Terán G.C.?
April 13, 2011 / News Strengths and limitations of the Round Table for Responsible Soy –RTRS in Mato Grosso, Brazil
Maru Shete?
April 13, 2011 / News Implications of land deals to livelihood security & natural resources management in Benshanguel Gumuz Regional State, Ethiopia
?Martina Locher
April 13, 2011 / News „How come 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
Samuel B. Mabikke?
April 13, 2011 / News Escalating Land GrabbingIn Post-conflict Regions ofNorthern Uganda A Need forStrengthening Good LandGovernance in Acholi Region
Liz Alden Wily?
April 13, 2011 / News Nothing New Under the Sun or a New Battle Joined?AfricanLand Dispossession in the Global Land Rush
Lila Buckley?
April 13, 2011 / News Eating Bitter to Taste Sweet: An Ethnographic Sketch of a Chinese Agriculture Project in Senegal
LI Xiubin?
April 13, 2011 / News Farmland grabs by urban sprawl and their impacts on peasants’ livelihood in China
Lee Mackey?
April 13, 2011 / News Legitimating Foreignization in Bolivia Brazilian agriculture and relations of conflict and consent in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
David Deng
April 13, 2011 / News Land belongs to the community, Demystifying the ‘global land grab’ in Southern Sudan