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Presentations from the regional workshop on 'Commercialisation of Land and "Land Grabbing" in Southern Africa' in March 2010

	Commercialisation of Land and 'Land Grabbing' in Southern Africa Introduction and background presentation by Ruth Hall
	ILC Presentation: Responding to commercial pressures on land by Ward Anseeuw and Michael Taylor
	IFPRI Presentation: Overview of land grabs: global trends, categories, outcomes by Ruth Meinzen-Dick
	Country Case - Angola: Reflections on conflicts related to land and resource rights in Angola by Sashi Chanda
	Country Case - Mozambique Workshop presentation by Lourenço Duvane
	Country Case - Zimbabwe: Agro-investments in Zimbabwe at a Time of Redistributive Land Reforms by Prosper Matondi
	Country Case - Madagascar Impacts of Land Grabbing in Madagascar by Danie'le Ramiaramanana
	Country Case - Zambia: Commercial pressures in Zambia : an overview by Henry Machina
	Country Case - Tanzania: Scramble for land in Tanzania by Emmanuel B. Sulle

Upcoming Seminars: Labour in Large Scale Agriculture in Africa and Southeast Asia Cape Town,
2012-09-19; LDPI International Academic Conference: Global Land Grabs II Cornell University,
2012-10-17; Upcoming events…

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