The Land Deal Politics Initiative
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The phrase ‘global land grab’ has become a catch-all phrase to describe and analyze the current explosion of (trans) national commercial land transactions. Around the world, various state, corporate and civil society groups have reacted, albeit in different ways. Some see this as a major threat to the lives and livelihoods of the rural poor worldwide, and so opposes such commercial land deals. Others see economic opportunity for the rural poor, although they are wary of corruption and negative consequences, and so calls for the improving land market governance feature prominently. And, of course, between these two extremes for and against large scale land purchases/sales are a range of intermediate positions offered by other groups. |
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CALL FOR PAPERS International Academic Conference on ‘Global Land Grabbing’ 6-8 April 2011 Co-organized and hosted by the Future Agricultures Consortium Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK download the details about submissions here |
20–22 SEPTEMBER 2010 — NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STRUCTURAL POVERTY IN SOUTH AFRICA "Overcoming inequality and structural poverty in South Africa: Towards inclusive growth and development"