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Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
A new political moment is underway. Although there are significant differences in how this is constituted in different places, one manifestation of the new moment is the rise of distinct forms of authoritarian populism. ...
Space, markets and employment in agricultural development: Zimbabwe country report
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Since independence in 1980, Zimbabwe has undergone several phases of land redistribution,
generally to communal and working people. The latest phase was the Fast-Track Land Reform
Programme (FTLRP), which began in 2000 ...
Africa's land rush: rural livelihoods and agrarian change
(James Currey, 2015)
This book is 'the most historically grounded, lucid and nuanced understanding to date of the complex political economy of the contemporary rush for land in Africa' according to Professor Adebayo Olukoshi, Director of of ...
Forum on Global Land Grabbing Part 2: The politis of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
The most recent ‘land rush’ precipitated by the convergent ‘crises’ of fuel, feed and food
in 2007–2008 has heightened the debate on the consequences of land investments, with
widespread media coverage, policy commentary ...
The politics of evidence: A response to Rulli and D'Odorico
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
We welcome Rulli and D’Odorico’s response to our introduction to the Journal for Peasant Studies (JPS) Forum on Global Land Grabbing(Scoones etal.2013) in which we discussed the ‘literature rush’ that has accompanied the ...
Governing global land deals: The role of the state in the rush for land
(Wiley, 2013)
Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in large-scale land deals, often from public lands to the hands of foreign or domestic investors. Popularly referred to as a ‘global land grab’, new land acquisitions ...