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Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?

Journal of Peasant Studies, 39(2) special issue
Guest editors: James Fairhead, Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones.

Across the world, ‘green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. In recent years there has been a veritable explosion of scholarship examining the neoliberalization of environments, nature and conservation, drawing partly on older traditions of ecological/green Marxism and critical political ecology. The contributions to this Special Issue are indebted to this work, but also move beyond it, locating the discussions in a particular concern for the implications of changing agrarian relations resulting from these multiple and diverse appropriations of nature.

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Debating the Global Land Grab

A report was released in 2011 to coincide with the international conference on the global land grab held at IDS, University of Sussex in April 2011.

The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS) Forum on global land grabbing, with three leading commentators, debates on the sometimes hidden impacts of land deals and sets the scene for wider debates at the upcoming conference.

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  • Klaus Deininger, a senior economist at the World Bank examines the risks associated with single owners of large land holdings and the institutional reforms needed to make land deals successful.
  • Olivier de Schutter, the UN Rapporteur for the Right to Food and Professor of Law and Human Rights at the Catholic University of Louvain, promotes small family farms and human rights in the context of contemporary debates on land grabbing.
  • Tania Murray Li, Canada Research Chair and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, examines how land deals can lead to dispossession and 'rural exclusion'.

UN report on the global land grab

Report on global land grab by UN Committee on Food Security High Level Panel of Experts (2011)

WP 543 'War on piracy'. The conflation of Somali piracy with terrorism in discourse, tactic and law / by C. Singh and A.S. Bedi.

Bram Büscher editor of Conservation & Society

"Altruism but not Quite: the genesis of the least developed country (ldc) category"

WP 542 Where the financial and economic crisis does bite. Impact on the Least Developed Countries / by P.A.G. van Bergeijk

CIAO Focus, May 2012: The Arab Spring and the West

WP 541 Provincial migration in China. Preliminary insights from the 2010 population census / by A.M. Fischer.

WP 540 The effects of oil shocks on government expenditures and government revenues nexus in Iran (as a developing oil-export based economy) / by Sajjad Faraji Dizaji.

WP 539 Transacting in the absence of trust: uncertainty and network patterns in post-communism / by B. Lehmbruch

'The Perils of Paradigm Maintenance in the Face of Crisis'

Strengthening Governance for the economic development of Pernambuco, Northeast of Brazil