Call for Papers are invited at International Academic Conference which will be organized from October 17 – 19, 2012 at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. The event will be co-organized and hosted by the Department of Development Sociology.
The Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) is organizing a second international academic workshop on ‘Global Land Grabbing’ to be held on 17-19 October 2012 at the Africana Studies Center at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. The confirmed keynote speakers are the new Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Brazilian academic, José Graziano da Silva. This conference comprises 120 papers were presented that sketched the broad outlines of land grabs happening across the globe. A convergence of factors has been driving a revaluation of land by powerful economic as well as political actors.
This is occurring across the world, but especially in the global South. As a result, we are seeing a dramatic rise in the extent of cross-border, transnational corporation-driven and foreign government-driven, large-scale land deals unfolding worldwide.
The deadline for the Call for Papers is 31 May.
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