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Land grabs spearheaded by wealthy interests are accelerating deforestation, and Brazil’s National Congress is working to legitimize them.
In the formal real estate industry, there is an emerging narrative that affordable housing deficits in African cities represent a vast untapped market
Despite all Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed’s inspirational reforms, there can be no progress without the rural majority.
The whole island has been in common ownership for centuries, but foreign investors want individual property rights.
The single greatest failure of current punditry is the refusal to recognise that context matters. A one-size-fits-all approach to solving Zimbabwe’s complex set of problems simply won’t help.
The move by the African Union to develop a policy to regulate the impact of firms on human rights puts it ahead of other regions as it seeks to guide companies conducting activities on the continent.
This is what neo-colonialism looks like in the 21st century.
It’s been ten years since “land grabbing” hit the headlines. What has changed?
Making land governance work in practice is easier said than done. The process of agreeing to international guidelines has been intensely political – as is their implementation.
International development banks are supposed to ensure adherence to human rights in the projects they fund. Instead, their practices provide fertile ground for human rights abuses.
The idea that there is a “land grab” taking place in developing nations began with the publication of a report, Seized!, by the NGO Grain. This rang an alarm bell about large-scale land acquisitions…
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Research Professor of Law, University of Antwerp
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Director, Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer and Head of Sociology, University of Aberdeen
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Professor, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria., University of Pretoria
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Steinberg Postdoctoral Fellow in International Migration Law, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law, McGill University
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Professor of the Politics of Development, University of Oxford
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Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Senior Researcher, African Studies Centre, Leiden University
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PhD Candidate in the Postgraduate School for Agriculture and Rural Development, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Human Geography and Planning, Utrecht University
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Professor Emeritus of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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Lecturer in Global Urban Development, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida