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LEGEND state of the debate report 2016 - Strengthening land governance: Lessons from implementing the Voluntary Guidelines
(Legend, 2017)
The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance
of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context
of National Food Security (VGGT) are a globally agreed
standard. Achieving this normative consensus in ...
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. ...
Narratives of scarcity: Framing the global land rush
(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 ...
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 ...
Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change
(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 ...
Narratives of scarcity: Framing the global land rush
(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 ...
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 ...
Global land deals: What has been done, what has changed, and what’s next?
(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 ...