Land Library
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A 78-page list, much of it pretty grim reading. Divided into reports and press cuttings, in alphabetical order.
The 1,000
A short paper providing background to the establishment of land alliances in East Africa in the 1990s.
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.
Short summary of an event with over 1000 participants and nearly 550 papers. Presented a paper with former FAO colleagues in Mozambique on community level legal empowerment programme to encourage local people to more effectively defend their rights under the progressive 1997 Land Law.
Describes the work of the late Patrick McAuslan, international legal adviser on land.
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.
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.
An updated (and final) select bibliography of reports on biofuels, land rights in Africa and global land grabbing.