Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)
http://hdl.handle.net/10566/18
2024-03-29T00:23:50ZCritical agrarian studies in the 21st century
http://hdl.handle.net/10566/9329
Critical agrarian studies in the 21st century
Hall, Ruth
Prof Ye Jingzhong welcomed participants. Prof Lin Wanglong, vice president of China Agricultural University, gave a welcoming speech on behalf of CAU. Prof Ruth Hall welcomed everyone and thanked COHD and CAU, on behalf of the co-hosts together with CAU: Journal of Peasant Studies, Transnational Institute, and the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists of the South (CASAS). No notes were taken.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZClimate change and agrarian justice
http://hdl.handle.net/10566/9328
Climate change and agrarian justice
Monjane, Boaventura; Nyambura, Ruth; Scoones, Ian
Three papers formed the focus of this session. Zehra Yaţın et al presented on the environmentalisation of the agrarian question and the agrarianisation of the climate justice movement. Noemi Gonda et al presented on rethinking resilience through socio-environmental conflicts in Nicaragua. Mills-Novoa et al presented on resisting and remaking climate change adaptation in adaptation projects in Ecuador.
2022-01-01T00:00:00ZGlobal land deals: What has been done, what has changed, and what’s next?
http://hdl.handle.net/10566/9257
Global land deals: What has been done, what has changed, and what’s next?
Hall, Ruth; Wendy W, Wolford; Ben, White; Scoones, Ian
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 to generate more empirical research into the phenomenon, and we organised conferences to debate the parameters and dynamics from the local level to the global. In this article, we take stock of what has been written about land grabbing as well as the way in which the context has changed since 2010. We highlight the ongoing need for research, as well as the changing nature of financial capital, the institutional “reforms” that resulted from calls for change, new technologies that have emerged to measure and distribute land access, the role of climate change in underpinning powerful new green grabs, and the changing geopolitical context that challenges resistance even as people struggle to retain their access to land. Finally, in the lead up to the 2024 Conference on Global Land Grabbing in Bogotá, Colombia, we highlight several challenges for the next decade of research on global land grabbing.
2024-01-01T00:00:00ZTransforming critical agrarian studies: Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South
http://hdl.handle.net/10566/9218
Transforming critical agrarian studies: Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South
Aguiar, Diana; Ahmed, Yasmin; Avcı, Duygu
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced bycritical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We arguethat despite the historical and structural limitations, the criticaljuncture of convergence of crises and renewed interest inagrarian political economies offers an opportunity for fostering adiverse research agenda that opens space for critical perspectivesabout, from and by the Global South, which is mostly absent inmainstream scholarship dominated by the Global North. We alsopropose doing so by enhancing solidarity to transform injusticeswithin academia and other spaces of knowledge production anddissemination
2023-01-01T00:00:00Z