Friday 14 September 2012

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The great green land grab

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 08:04 AM PDT

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"Land grabbing" is rarely out of the headlines. But the practice of land being appropriated by the environmental agenda - so-called "green grabs" - is gaining more and more attention. A new article on the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) blog looks at this phenomenon, and refers to recent work involving STEPS Centre members, published in a recent special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

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The great green land grab

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 07:39 AM PDT

noentry-rs

"Land grabbing" is rarely out of the headlines. But the practice of land being appropriated by the environmental agenda - so-called "green grabs" - is gaining more and more attention. A new article on the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) blog looks at this phenomenon, and refers to recent work involving Future Agricultures members, published in a recent special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Links

Image: No Entry_1952, from creative1the's photostream on Flickr (cc-by-nd)