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LDPI 6-8 April 2011 Conference on Global Land Grabbing Papers

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Resisting Agribusiness Development: The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate in West Papua, Indonesia

by Longgena Ginting and Oliver Pye

Land Deals and Commercial Agriculture in Nigeria: The New Nigerian Farms in Shonga District, Kwara State

by Joseph A. Ariyo and Michael Mortimore

The next Great Trek? South African commercial farmers move north

by Ruth Hall

Land Grabbing in Bangladesh: In-Situ Displacement of Peasant Holdings

by Shelley Feldman and Charles Geisler

Escalating Land Grabbing In Post-conflict Regions of Northern Uganda: A Need for Strengthening Good Land Governance in Acholi Region

by Samuel B. Mabikke

The end of the African peasant? From investment funds and finance value-chains to peasant related questions

by Ward Anseeuw, Antoine Ducastel and Jean-Jacques Gabas

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

by Nadia Cuffaro and David Hallam

Behind Dispossession: State, Land Grabbing and Agrarian Change in Rural Orissa

by Deepak K Mishra

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

by Alberto Alonso-Fradejas

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

by Maru Shete

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

by P Woodhouse and A S Ganho

Projecting Smallholders: Roads, the Puebla to Panama Plan and Land Grabbing in the Q’eqchi’ Lowlands of Northern Guatemala

by Liza Grandia

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

by Sérgio Sauer and Sergio Pereira Leite

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

by Markus Zander and Jochen Dürr

Transnational Land Deals in Mindanao: Situating Ambivalent Farmer Responses in Local Politics

by Tania Salerno

The gendered politics of dispossession: oil palm expansion in a Dayak Hibun community in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

by Julia and Ben White

Urbanization strategies and agrarian change in Eastern China: a multilevel integrated assessment of domestic land
grabbing

by Giuseppina Siciliano

Gulf-State Investments in Indonesia and The Philippines: Gaining Control of Agricultural Land and Foodcrops

by Gerben Nooteboom & Rosanne Rutten

Conservation and Land Grabbing in Tanzania

by Tor A. Benjaminsen, Ian Bryceson, Faustin Maganga and Tonje Refseth

Gendered Dimensions of Land and Rural Livelihoods: The Case of New Settler Farmer Displacement at Nuanetsi Ranch, Mwenezi District, Zimbabwe

by Patience Mutopo

Resistance to Accumulation by Dispossession in the Context Of Neoliberal Capitalism And Globalization: Struggles for Defending and Gaining Land Rights by the Poor Peasantry in the Noakhali Chars Of Bangladesh

by Shapan Adnan

Legitimating Foreignization in Bolivia: Brazilian agriculture and the relations of conflict and consent in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

by Lee Mackey

After titling: Oil palm landscapes and Afro-Colombian territories

by Roosbelinda Cardenas

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

by Alison Graham, Sylvain Aubry, Rolf Künnemann and Sofía Monsalve Suárez

A question of scale: the construction of marginal lands and the limitations of global land classifications

by Rachel A. Nalepa

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

by Paulette Nonfodji

Wildlife Conservation and Land Acquisitions: A Case Study of the Tanzania Land Conservation Trust

by Ngeta Kabiri

Development by Dispossession: Land Grabbing as New Enclosures in Contemporary Ethiopia

by Fouad Makki and Charles Geisler

Multi-stakeholder initiatives to regulate biofuels: the Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels

by Elizabeth Fortin

Joint ventures in South Africa’s land reform programme: strategic partnerships or strategic resource grab?

by Nerhene Davis and Edward Lahiff

Contemporary Land Grabs and their Alternatives in the Americas

by Sara Safransky and Wendy Wolford

Land Market Liberalization and Trans-National Commercial Land Deals in Ghana since the 1990s

by Dzodzi Tsikata and Joseph Yaro

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

by Philip Hirsch

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

by Burnod Perrine, Gingembre Mathilde, Andrianirina Ratsialonana Rivo, and Ratovoarinony Raphael

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

by John McCarthy, Suraya Afiff and Jacqueline Vel

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

by Mateo Mier y Terán

Economic Empowerment for Pastoralist Women: A Comparative Look at Program Experience in Uganda, Somaliland and Sudan

by John Livingstone & Everse Ruhindi

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

by Lila Buckley

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

by Li Xiubin

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

by Kojo Sebastian Amanor

The Modern Motility of Pastoral Land Rights: Tenure Transitions and Land-Grabbing In East Africa

by John G. Galaty

Biofuels and Wasteland Grabbing: How India’s Biofuel Policy is Facilitating Land Grabs in Tamil Nadu, India

by Jennifer Baka

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

by Thea Hilhorst, Joost Nelen, Nata Traoré

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

by Laura German, George Schoneveld and Esther Mwangi

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

by Devparna Roy

‘Land belongs to the community’ Demystifying the ‘global land grab’ in Southern Sudan

by David K. Deng

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

by An Ansoms

What shall we do without our land? Land Grabs and Resistance in Rural Cambodia

by Alison Elizabeth Schneider

The Urban and Northern Face of Global Land Grabs

by Eric Holt-Giménez, Yi Wang and Annie Shattuck

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

by Kyla Tienhaara and Wynet Smith

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

by H. Cochet and M. Merlet

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

by Sérgio Sauer and Sergio Pereira Leite

“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

by Martina Locher

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

by Michael Levien

The Gender Implications of Large-Scale Land Deals

by Julia Behrman, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing

Foreign investment into agriculture: Investment Treaties and the ability of governments to balance rights and obligations between foreign investors and local communities

by Mahnaz Malik

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

by Kathleen Guillozet and John C. Bliss

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

by Megan Ybarra

“’The Space to Be Ourselves’: Ethanol-Fuel Production and Land Conflict on a Brazilian ‘Frontier’”

by LaShandra P. Sullivan

The Dynamics of Land Deals in the Tana Delta, Kenya

by Abdirizak Arale Nunow

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

by Miles Kenney-Lazar

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

by J. A. Mope Simo

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

by Elisa Da Vià

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

by Diana Ojeda

The Political Construction of A Land Grab in Papua New Guinea

by Colin Filer

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

by Claude Joel Fortin

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

by Janette Bulkan

Naturalizing Land Dispossession: A Policy Discourse Analysis of the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate

by Takeshi Ito, Noer Fauzi Rachman, Laksmi A. Savitri

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

by Robin Palmer

Territory by Dispossession: Decentralization, Statehood, and The Narco Land-Grab In Colombia

by Teo Ballvé

Land Grab and Oil Palm in Colombia

by Mark James Maughan

Nothing New Under the Sun or a New Battle Joined? The Political Economy of African Dispossession in the Current Global Land Rush

by Liz Alden Wily

Large Scale Investment Projects and Land Grabs in Zimbabwe: The Case of Nuanetsi Ranch Bio-Diesel Project

by Joseph Mujere and Sylvester Dombo

Agricultural Growth Corridors Equals Land-grabbing? Models, Roles and Accountabilities in a Mozambican case

by Randi Kaarhus

The Food Regime in the Land Grab: Articulating ‘Global Ecology’ and Political Economy

by Philip McMichael

Building the Politics Machine: Tools for Resolving the Global Land Grab

by Michael B. Dwyer

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

by Kathleen Guillozet and John C. Bliss

Land Control, Land Grabs, and Southeast Asian Crop Boom

by Derek Hall

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

by Dana Graef

Land Grabbing in Namibia: A Case Study from the Omusati Region, Northern Namibia

by Willem Odendaal

Agricultural Foreign Direct Investment and Water Rights: An Institutional Analysis from Ethiopia

by Andrea Bues

Land Grabbing in Indonesia

by Yulian Junaidi Jasuan

The Impact of Special Economic Zones in India: A Caste Study of Polepally SEZ

by Vidya Bhushan Rawat, Mamidi Bharath Bhushan and Sujatha Surepally

Land Grabs for Biochar? Narratives and Counter-narratives in Africa’s Emerging Biogenic Carbon Sequestration Economy

by Melissa Leach, James Fairhead and James Fraser

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

by Festus Boamah

Land Regularization in Brazil and the Global Land Grab: A State-making Framework for Analysis

by Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira

The Role of Foreign Investment in Ethiopia's Smallholder-focused Agricultural Development Strategies

by Tom Lavers

The Role of the International Finance Corporation in Promoting Agricultural Investment and Large-scale Land Acquisitions

by Shepard Daniel