As part of its series on land grabs, The Journal of Peasant Studies has released a collection of 5 new articles on the problem of recording accurate and reliable information…
Getting the facts right on land grabs: 5 new (free) articles
Getting the facts right on land grabs: 5 new (free) articles
As part of its series on land grabs, The Journal of Peasant Studies has released a collection of 5 new articles on the problem of recording accurate and reliable information…
Land grabs: knowledge and resistance
by Nathan Oxley, STEPS Centre communications officer Shalmali Guttal from Focus on the Global South addresses the opening plenary The Global Land Grabbing II conference at Cornell last week brought…
GLOBAL LAND GRABBING II
See videos, photos, blogs and more from the second international conference on ‘Global Land Grabbing’. The STEPS Centre also has a range of useful resources on land, green and water grabs. Organised…
Green Grabs explained: radio interview with Melissa Leach
Last week, our director Melissa Leach was interviewed about green grabs – the appropriation of land for environmental ends – by Brent Bambury of the Canadian station CBC Radio. Here’s…
Press release: Green grabs: the dark side of the green economy
Green’ market initiatives are increasing poverty. Local ecosystem stewardship must be nurtured instead. ‘Green grabbing’ – the rapidly-growing appropriation of land and resources in the name of ‘green ’ biofuels,…
LAND GRABS: CALL FOR NEW GRANT APPLICATIONS
By Julia Day, STEPS Centre Communications Manager Across the world, especially in the global South, there has been a dramatic rise in ‘land grabs’ – cross-border, transnational corporation-driven and, in…
EVERYONE’S A WINNER (EXCEPT IF YOU’RE NOT…)
Photo: Jatropha curcas – the biofuel plant from tonrulkens’ photostream on Flickr Our director Melissa Leach is giving the first Annual Piers Blaikie Lecture on Environmental Politics at the University…