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Select Bibliography of Reports and Press Cuttings on Land Rights in Africa and Global Land Grabbing, August 2013 – August 2017

Reports & Research
September, 2017
Africa
agriculture
land rights
land grabbing
land
A 78-page list, much of it pretty grim reading. Divided into reports and press cuttings, in alphabetical order. The reports section comprises a ‘1stXI’ of Future Agricultures Consortium, GRAIN, IIED, IISD, Mokoro, Oakland Institute, Oxfam, Pambazuka News, PLAAS, RRI and TNI, followed by a further 36 from Action Aid to the World Resources Institute. The press cuttings cover Global, Africa, 31 African countries or regions from Angola to Zimbabwe, followed by Middle East, Asia and China. Countries with greatest coverage are Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania.
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Some thoughts on the Land Rights in Africa website, 2000-2017

Reports & Research
July, 2017
Africa
land rights
land
The 1,000
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How best to Respond to the Great Contempt shown by Africa’s Ruling Elites towards their own Small-Scale Farmers and Pastoralists?

Reports & Research
July, 2015
Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
pastoralists
scale
legal empowerment
research
land
farmers
Impossible to have imagined 50 years ago that Africa’s ruling political elites would have come to despise their own small-scale farmers and pastoralists and to look kindly on foreign-run large plantations. Impact of decades of structural adjustment programmes forgotten. Sceptical about claims that land grabs can be stopped within 3 years. Looks at variety of responses attempting to address power inequalities at local levels. Research a not unproblematic area. Concludes with case studies of legal empowerment in Mozambique and Namati’s community land protection programme.
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Working on Land – History, Rights and Grabbing – in the Academic, NGO and Consultancy Worlds, 1964-2014

Reports & Research
October, 2014
Africa
Land & Gender
land
research
land rights
property rights
property
women
Paper written for Democracy, Land and Liberation in Africa Today: Bridging Past and Present Scholarship. A colloquium in honour of Lionel Cliffe held at the University of Cape Town. Includes the academic world, 1960-84 (universities in Southern Africa, my academic writing); the NGO world, 1987-2007 (Oxfam’s Southern Africa Desk, women’s land rights, working with Zimbabwean researchers, land and property rights in post-tsunami Aceh; the consultancy world (Zimbabwe 1999, South Africa 2000 DLA, South Africa 2001 the LRC); an academic again in retirement?
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Select Bibliography (2) of Books, Journal Articles and TV, Video and Radio Clips on Biofuels, Land Rights in Africa & Global Land Grabbing, 2008-2013

Reports & Research
July, 2013
Africa
land rights
land grabbing
land
An updated (and final) select bibliography of books, journal articles and TV, video and radio clips on biofuels, land rights in Africa and global land grabbing. Contains short summaries and contents details of 9 books, notes the explosion of journal articles, including special issues and the main themes emerging, and cites 86 TV and video clips and 35 radio clips, which offer an essential adjunct to the written words.
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Select Bibliography (1) of Reports on Biofuels, Land Rights in Africa & Global Land Grabbing, 2006-2013

Reports & Research
July, 2013
Africa
land rights
land grabbing
land
An updated (and final) select bibliography of reports on biofuels, land rights in Africa and global land grabbing. 153 organizations are cited, including the ‘top 10’ of FAO, GRAIN, IIED, the International Land Coalition, the Oakland Institute, OHCHR, Pambazuka News, SciDev.Net, TNI and the World Bank and 143 others, from ActionAid to WWF.
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Select Bibliography (3) of Press Cuttings on Biofuels, Land Rights in Africa & Global Land Grabbing, 2007-2013

Reports & Research
July, 2013
Africa
land rights
land grabbing
land
An updated (and final) select bibliography of press cuttings on biofuels, land rights in Africa and global land grabbing. It is organised geographically: global, Africa general, 37 African countries and regions, Middle East, Asia, 10 Asian countries, Latin America, 5 Latin American countries with the focus always on land rights in Africa. It now runs to 157 pages.
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Land Grabbing in Brighton

Reports & Research
May, 2011
Africa
land
land grabbing
A short account of the background to a hugely energising conference on global land grabbing held at IDS, Sussex. Over 400 people wanted to write papers for the event, but there was space for only 120. Gives details of the wide scope of the conference, including green grabs.
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A New Scramble for Africa?

Reports & Research
March, 2011
Africa
Land & Investments
land deals
land
land grabbing
Current land grabbing in Africa very worrying and carries strong echoes of era of Cecil Rhodes. Land deals being done in secret, myth of much vacant land, willing consent of many African leaders. Biofuels moving from miracle cure to a problem. Some positive experiences in Tanzania. Need for imaginative thinking and action.
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Would Cecil Rhodes have signed a Code of Conduct? Reflections on Global Land Grabbing and Land Rights in Africa, Past and Present

Reports & Research
September, 2010
Africa
land rights
land grabbing
land
Includes land grabbing in early colonial Zimbabwe and Mozambique, contemporary land grabbing, biofuels (citing IIED and Houtart), a ‘race to the bottom’ to attract investors? (citing the new World Bank report), the literature (citing Zoomers, Borras and Franco), conclusion.