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| Associate Professor of Rural Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Peasant Studies. Adjunct Professor at the China Agricultural University in Beijing and a Fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam and Food First in Oakland. Research Interests include: land grabbing, biofuels, land policies, (trans)national agrarian movements, rural politics -- in Southeast Asia, China, Southern Africa, Southern America, and in international institutional spaces of state-society interactions. He has been deeply involved in (trans)national agrarian movements, Publications include: Pro-Poor Land Reform: A Critique (2007), Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization (2008) co-edited with M. Edelman and C. Kay; ed. Critical Perspectives in Rural Development Studies (2009); and The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change, co-edited with P. McMichael and I. Scoones (2011). He is completing a book manuscript on transnational agrarian movements with Marc Edelman. Email: junborras5@gmail.com |
| Senior Researcher at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. (PhD, Oxford University, 2011). Research interests include land and agrarian reforms, rural labour markets and farm worker rights, agricultural commodity chains, and the politics of rural development. Publications include: Another Countryside? Policy Options for Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa (ed) and, with Lungisile Ntsebeza, The Land Question in South Africa: The Challenge of Transformation and Redistribution. She is Book Reviews Section Co-Editor of the Journal of Peasant Studies. Email: rhall@uwc.ac.za |
| Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. A background in agricultural ecology. His interdisciplinary research links the natural and social sciences and focuses on the relationships between science and technology, local knowledge and livelihoods and the politics of policy processes. He has worked on issues such as pastoralism and rangeland management, soil and water conservation, biodiversity and environmental change, land and agrarian reform, dryland agricultural systems, crop biotechnology and animal health science policy, mostly in Africa. Currently co-director of the ESRC Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) Centre at Sussex and Joint Convenor of the Future Agricultures Consortium. Publications include: Science, Agriculture and the Politics of Policy: The Case of Biotechnology in India ( 2006) and Land Reform in Zimbabwe: Myths and Realities (2010). He is a member of the Editorial Collective of the Journal of Peasant Studies. Email: I.Scoones@ids.ac.uk |
| Professor of Rural Sociology at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) and Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is part of the Resources, Environment and Livelihoods (RELIVE) research cluster at ISS. He has carried out research on the themes of agrarian change, social differentiation of the peasantry, contract farming, rural labour, land policies, among others, mainly in Indonesia. He has published extensively on these themes. Publications include: For 17 years, he was Co-Editor of Development and Change, until mid-2009. Email: white@iss.nl. |
| Polson Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University. Research interests include the political economy of development, social movements, land distribution and agrarian societies. Publications include: To Inherit the Earth: the Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil (co-authored with Angus Wright, 2003) and This Land is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meaning(s) of Land in Brazil (2010). She is a member of the Editorial Collective of the Journal of Peasant Studies. Email: wwolford@email.unc.edu |
