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Land Sovereignty
Topic category
Land, Sea and Food
Dramatic changes around food, climate, energy, and finance in recent years have pushed questions of land use and land control back onto the centre stage of development discourse, at the very moment when the same conditions are spurring an unprecedented rush for land and water across the globe. A fusion of the industrial agro-food and energy complexes has made land and water key resources in the global capitalist system again, fuelling in turn a huge renewed process of enclosure known as the ‘global land grab’. There is a need to come to grips with land issues in a changing global context and to rethink what may be needed to mobilise effectively in such a setting. Neither land reform nor land tenure security alone are well-equipped to be frameworks for analysis or action in the current conjuncture. If, as our analysis suggests, there is a need to transition the people’s demand for land from ‘land reform’ and ‘land tenure security’ to something else, then ‘land sovereignty’ as a framework is worth considering.
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International Conference on Global Land Grabbing : Land Deal Politics Initiative (LPDI)
Event by- Cornell University
- City University of New York
- Institute for Development Studies
- International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague
- PLAAS at University of the Western Cape
- Transnational Institute
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Scholar-Activism and Land Struggles
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Livestock, climate and the politics of resources A primer
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A ‘Land Sovereignty’ Alternative? Towards a Peoples’ Counter-Enclosure
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Understanding land politics
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The Meaning of Land in Myanmar : A Primer
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Key documents
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A ‘Land Sovereignty’ Alternative? Towards a Peoples’ Counter-Enclosure
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Rural Democratisation: (Re)Framing rural poor political action
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