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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
Joseph A. Ariyo and Michael Mortimore?
April 13, 2011 / News LAND DEALS AND COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE IN NIGERIA: THE NEW NIGERIAN FARMS IN SHONGA DISTRICT, KWARA STATE, NIGERIA
John McCarthy, Suraya Afiff and Jacqueline Vel?
April 13, 2011 / News A Land Grab Scenario for Indonesia?Diverse Trajectories and Virtual Land Grabs in the Outer Islands
John Letai?
April 13, 2011 / News The Genesis of Land Deals in Kenya and its Implication on Pastoral Livelihoods – A Case Study of Laikipia District
Jeremy Ironside?
April 13, 2011 / News The Competition for the Communal Lands of Indigenous Communities in Cambodia
Jennifer Baka???
April 13, 2011 / News Biofuels and Wastelands: Energy Policy, Land Markets and Social Inequality in South India
Janette Bulkan?
April 13, 2011 / News ‘Red Star over Guyana’: colonial-style grabbing of natural resources but new grabbers
Graham Davies
April 13, 2011 / News Farmland as an Asset Class: The Focus of Private Equity Firms in Africa
Giuseppina Siciliano
April 13, 2011 / News Urbanization strategies and agrarian change in Eastern China. A multilevel integrated assessment of domestic land grabbing
Longgena Ginting and Oliver Pye???????
April 13, 2011 / News Resisting Agribusiness Development: The MeraukeIntegrated Food and Energy Estate in West Papua, Indonesia
Laura German, George Schoneveld and Esther Mwangi?
April 13, 2011 / News Processes of Large-Scale Land Acquisition: Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa
Julia Behrman, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing?
April 13, 2011 / News The Gender Implications of Large-Scale Land Deals
Elizabeth Fortin?
April 13, 2011 / News Multi-stakeholder initiatives to regulate biofuels: the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels
Colin Filer??
April 13, 2011 / News THE NEW LAND GRAB IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA:A CASE STUDY OF LAND-GRABBINGIN NEW IRELAND PROVINCE
Cécile Famerée Peter Ho?
April 13, 2011 / News LAND GRABBING AND POPULAR RESISTANCE: CASE STUDIES IN THE PERUVIAN JUNGLE
Madeleine Fairbairn?
April 13, 2011 / News Indirect expropriation:The role of national institutions and domestic elites in the Mozambican farmland grab
Elisa DaVià
April 13, 2011 / News The Politics of “Win-Win” Narratives Land Grabs as Development Opportunity?
Dzodzi Tsikataand Joseph Yaro?
April 13, 2011 / News LAND MARKET LIBERALIZATION AND TRANS-NATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAND DEALS IN GHANA SINCE THE 1990S.
The fundamentallyflawed ‘marginal lands’ narrative: insights from the Philippines
April 13, 2011 / News Our main argument is thatthe narrative about the existence of available marginal lands – defined as thinly inhabited, unproductive, under-productive, under-utilized, idle lands that can be transformed into zones of production for food and biofuels to solve the world’s problem
Devparna Roy??
April 13, 2011 / News Development,” Land Acquisition in India, and the Tata Nano Project: A Comparison of Singur with Sanand
Deepak K Mishra?
April 13, 2011 / News Behind Dispossession: State, Land Grabbing and Agrarian Change in Rural Orissa
Shepard Daniel
April 13, 2011 / News Role of IFC in agricultural investment and large-scale land acquisition