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Jennifer Franco
Agrarian Justice
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Jennifer Franco

Co-coordinator of the CREPE-TNI agrofuels project.

Jennifer Franco, PhD., is an independent researcher based in Canada, where she also serves on the Asia Committee for International Development Programs at the development NGO Development and Peace (Developpement et Paix). Her previous work has focused mainly on rural social movements and democratisation in the Philippines. Her book publications include Elections and Democratisation in the Philippines (Routledge, 2001), with a new book on law and the rural poor in the Philippines forthcoming (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2010). She has published in important academic journals including the World Development, Journal of Agrarian Change, Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Development Studies and Critical Asian Studies.

Rural social movements; Democratisation; Philippines; Agrofuels
Selected publications: 
Pro - Poor Land Reform: A Critique
Contemporary discourses and contestations around pro-poor land policies and land governance

Recent content by Jennifer Franco

Contemporary discourses and contestations around pro-poor land policies and land governance (12 Jan 2010)

The concern for ‘pro-poor’ land policy has coincided with the mainstream promotion of efficient administration of land policies, leading to the concept of ‘land governance’. This paper aims at better understanding of contemporary policy discourses and political contestations around land and land governance.

Pro-Poor Policy Reforms and Governance in State/Public Lands: (17 Jun 2009)

This paper attempts to specify the key criteria of a ‘pro-poor land policy’ and ‘truly democratic land governance’ concerning state/public lands, using the lessons from activist databases, including that of the international human rights organization Foodfirst Information and Action Network (FIAN).

Transnational agrarian movements: struggling for land and citizenship rights (1 Apr 2009)
La Vía Campesina’s transnational campaign in protest against neoliberal land policies has helped to generate new meanings of global citizenship.

 

Rural Democratisation: (Re)Framing rural poor political action (1 Feb 2008)

With two-thirds of the world’s poor rural poor, rural democratisation is clearly relevant and urgent, but at the same time an especially difficult--and underestimated--challenge. If democracy is to be organically rooted in any society, the struggle to “get there” must systematically be opened up to integrate rural poor citizens system-wide, taking stock of their aspirations and, more importantly, their existing efforts to gain control of decision-making affecting their lives.

 
 
 
 

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