Check out our new release by Jacob Brinck
Marxist past to speculative futures: migration, land markets, and political storytelling in Nepal’s Tarai by J.

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#Land grabbing may have disappeared from the headlines, but it continues apace driven often by ‘green’ and ‘ #climate ’ solutions. #Land Grabbing2024 in Bogotá explored the challenges. See our new openDemocracy article and other links in 🧵below. JPS Ruth Hall

New release!! Participation is not the answer: epistemic violence and authoritarian practices in conservation-forced displacement by Jessica Milgrooom & Priscilla Claeys on how participation in fact legitimises displacements in Mozambique.

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New release!! Participation is not the answer: epistemic violence and authoritarian practices in conservation-forced displacement by Jessica Milgrooom & Priscilla Claeys on how participation in fact legitimises displacements in Mozambique.

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Ian Scoones and Morgan Ody moderating a fascinating dialogue between participants across the globe on 'Land redistribution: Is redistributive land reform still relevant in the 21st century?' at #LandGrabbing2024 Conference!

Powerhouse panel on violence, resistance and mobilisation. Dario Fajardo (Colombia), Ibrahima Coulibaly (Mali), Gemma van der Haar (Ned), Danny Carranza (Philippines), moderated by Angelika Rettberg. #LandGrabbing2024

On the last day of LDPI conference, plenary sessions has begun. The first panel talks about ‘Violence, resistance and mobilization’ with Ibrahima’s discussion on colonial legacy against peasantry in Africa.

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🎙️Now out: a new episode of the Agrarian Politics Podcast

'China's 'Going Out' policy and global agrarian change'
where Boaventura Monjane and I are in conversation with Prof Yan Hairong

Relevant to geopolitics debates at #LandGrabbing2024 conference

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Interesting plenary session on Geopolitics, Financialization, and Digitalization! Yan Hairong emphasizing 'Chinese debt trap' as more imagined than real, and debunking myths around the debt trap. #LandGrabbing2024

Dia 2 of #LandGrabbing2024 - dialogue among scholars, activists and peasant movements - is Agrarian reform still relevant in the 21st century? Sharing so far from Brazil, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, S. Africa, Scotland, the Philippines. Some griping, a lot of solidarity.

How to resist the expanding global land grab
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One of the best sessions yet: discussion (from approximately 20 country’s perspectives) of land reform: histories, trajectories, conjunctures – but not merely an academic discussion, as the debates were how to generate a new wave towards land reform globally. #LandGrabbing2024

Financialization, AI and #LandGrabbing2024 . We begin

How to Resist the Expanding Global Land Grab #LandGrabbing2024 in Bogota is a step towards strengthening alliances to fight land grabbing worldwide - commondreams.org/opinion/resist…

📢 TNI with JPS and the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) present: The International Conference on Global Land Grabbing 🌍

500 international researchers, activists and government officials will converge in Bogota, Colombia this week.

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#LandGrabbing2024 conference starts with a declaration by La Via Campesina (Official EN) that 'we are part of nature, we are not the owners od nature'. This 'mistica' celebrates the land, and people as guardians of land, seed and life - and opposing commodification.

A worrying update from the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing in Colombia #LandGrabbing2024
'The Land Deal Politics Initiative is outraged to learn that four of our LDPI Grantees - Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey, Yaya Maiga, Frew Yirgalem Mane & Sohbe Djidim Nestor ...

WATCH: Ruth Hall begins the second plenary session at the International Conference of Global Land Grabbing
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Pastoralism & Uncertainty, Institute of Development Studies, Ian Scoones, landrush, Erasmus University , ISS, The Hague, Cornell University, PLAAS, UWC, Marc Edelman #LandGrabbing2024

#LandGrabbing2024 is 60 % academic, 30 % peasant movements, and 10 % agrarian civil servants. So it makes sense that the first speaker is a Colombian peasant leader

Day 1 of #LandGrabbing2024 started with the plenary session on land grabbing in Colombia and responses. See some highlights from the session in the thread below!