Browsing Research Articles by Author "Scoones, Ian"

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    • Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism 

      Scoones, Ian; Edelman, Marc; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.; Hall, Ruth; Wolford, Wendy; White, Ben (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. ...

    • Forum on Global Land Grabbing Part 2: The politis of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush 

      Scoones, Ian; Hall, Ruth; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.; White, Ben; Wolford, Wendy (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 ...

    • Global land deals: What has been done, what has changed, and what’s next? 

      Hall, Ruth; Wendy W, Wolford; Ben, White; Scoones, Ian (The Land Deal Politics Initiative, 2024)
      In 2010, the Land Deals Politics Initiative formed to study the rising number of large-scale land deals taking place around the world. As the so-called ‘global land grab’ took shape, we organised small grant competitions ...

    • Governing global land deals: The role of the state in the rush for land 

      Wolford, Wendy; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.; Hall, Ruth; Scoones, Ian; White, Ben (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 ...

    • Narratives of scarcity: Framing the global land rush 

      Scoones, Ian; Smalley, Rebecca; Hall, Ruth; Tsikata, Dzodzi (Elsevier, 2019)
      Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising populations, natural resource depletion and hunger. The narratives of scarcity that arise as a result justify actions to harness ...

    • Narratives of scarcity: Framing the global land rush 

      Scoones, Ian; Smalley, Rebecca; Hall, Ruth (Elsevier, 2019)
      Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising populations, naturalresource depletion and hunger. The narratives of scarcity that arise as a result justify actions to harness ...

    • Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change 

      Hall, Ruth; Scoones, Ian; Tsikata, Dzodzi (Taylor & Francis OA, 2017)
      Whether or not investments in African agriculture can generate quality employment at scale, avoid dispossessing local people of their land, promote diversified and sustainable livelihoods, and catalyse more vibrant local ...

    • The political economy of sugar in Southern Africa – introduction 

      Dubb, Alex; Scoones, Ian; Woodhouse, Philip (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      In this introductory paper we review historic and contemporary development of sugar cane production across the southern Africa. We argue that the region’s sugar industry provides a useful lens through which to understand ...

    • The politics of evidence: A response to Rulli and D'Odorico 

      Scoones, Ian; Hall, Ruth; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.; White, Ben; Wolford, Wendy (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 ...