Speciality crops for pacific islands / More on land grabbing
Speciality crops for pacific islands
C.R. Elevitch (ed.), 2011.
Permanent Agriculture Resources. Holualoa, Hawaii. 558 pages. Read more
Payments for ecosystem services and food security
D. Ottaviani and N.E. Scialabba, 2011.
FAO, Rome. 281 pages. Read more
Food sovereignty: Reclaiming the global food system
S. Branford, 2011.
War on Want, London, 54 pages. Read more
Food movements unite!: Strategies to transform our food systems
E. Holt-Giménez (ed.), 2011.
Food First, Oakland, 323 pages. Read more
The politics of seed in Africa’s Green Revolution: Alternative narratives and competing pathways
I. Scoones and J. Thompson (eds.), 2011.
IDS, Brighton. 120 pages. Read more
Climate change and food systems resilience in sub-Saharan Africa
L.L. Ching, S. Edwards and N.E. Scialabba, 2011.
FAO, Rome. 448 pages. Read more
Land grabbing
Recent literature that estimates the magnitude of land grabbing and/or explores what is driving it, how it is affecting small-scale farmers and what can be done, include “Land tenure and international investments in agriculture” (by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition, 2011), “Land and power: the growing scandal surrounding the new wave of investments in land” (Bertram Zagema, 2011), “Land grabbing in Africa and the new politics of food” (Future Agricultures policy brief 41, 2011) and “The great land grab: Rush for world’s farmland threatens food security for the poor” (S. Daniel and A. Mittal, 2009). Literature that presents alternatives to international land acquisitions include the “Access to land and the right to food” report (O. de Schutter, 2010), “Responding to land grabbing and promoting responsible investment in agriculture” (IFAD, 2011) and “Alternatives to land acquisitions: Agricultural investment and collaborative business models” (edited by L. Cotula and R. Leonard, 2010). Both the “Development” journal (volume 54, issue 1, 2011) and “The Journal of Peasant Studies” (volume 38, issue 2, 2011) have dedicated a special on land grabbing, and the website of the “International Conference on Global Land Grabbing” (held this year by Future Agricultures) contains articles that cover several aspects of the topic. “A historical perspective on the global land rush” (by the International Land Coalition, 2011) relates the current wave of land grabs to the past legacy of colonisation and neo-liberal reforms.
