- A Toolkit for Participatory Action Research brings together lessons from rural communities using participatory methods of research to build bottom-up accountability strategies in the context of large-scale land deals, drawing on cases from Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda.
- A View from the Countryside: Contesting and constructing human rights in an age of converging crises makes the case for new, revitalised, visions of human rights in the context of climate crisis and the struggles over land and territories.
- A handbook, Your Land, My Land, Our Land, documents grassroots strategies to preserve farmland and access to land for peasant farming and agroecology in Europe
4. The Global Land Grab (2012)
Following the 2008-2009 converging financial-food-feed-fuel crises, land grabbing emerged as a major flashpoint in international politics. TNI’s primer is a concise and indispensable critical guide to the global phenomenon of land grabbing. Find out how the global land grab is justified, what is driving it, why transparency and guidelines won't stop it, and learn about alternatives that could enable people and communities to regain control of their land and territories.
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5. Competing political tendencies in the global governance of land grabbing (2012)
The emergence of ‘flex crops and commodities’ within a fluid international food regime transition, the rise of BRICS and middle income countries, and the re-valued role of nation-states are critical context for land grabbing. These global transformations, that shape and are reshaped by contemporary land grabbing, have resulted in the emergence of competing interpretations of the meaning of such changes, making the already complex governance terrain even more complicated. We are witnessing a three-way political contestation at the global level to control the character, pace, and trajectory of discourse, and the instruments in and practice of land governance. Future trajectories in land grabbing and its governance will be shaped partly by the balance of state and social forces within and between these three political tendencies. Given that this is a still-unfolding global development, this paper offers a preliminary analysis by mapping under-explored areas of inquiry and puts forward initial ways of questioning, rather than firm arguments based on complete empirical material.
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- The BICAS (BRICS Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies) working paper series looks at the role of BRICS within the context of emerging agro-commodity frontiers and new investment webs associated with e.g. soy, rubber and industrial tree plantations
- Protecting Injustice looks at how property regimes around land and natural resources are taking shape in the current conjuncture and who stands to benefit and to lose from these changes