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Marcello De Maria is a Postdoctoral Researcher based at the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development - University of Reading.
In 2019, he defended his PhD thesis titled 'Essays on the Economics of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions' and joined the TRADE Hub project (http://tradehub.earth/), where he is focusing on policy and institutional solutions for sustainable trade for a number of agricultural commodities - including soybean.
He worked for a decade as freelance researcher and data analyst with a variety of NGOs, research institutes, national and international organisations - including the Italian National Institute of Agricultural Economics (ex-INEA, now CREA), Transparency International, The Global Donor Platform on Land, GIZ and the Land Portal. His research focuses on different aspects of land justice (and injustice), ranging from trade and environmental economics, to land tenure and transparency in land information (eco)systems, ultimately looking at concrete solutions for the promotion of a more sustainable and just governance of land and other natural resources.
Research interests: Sustainable trade; Agricultural commodities; Large-scale land acquisitions; Land tenure; Land governance; Institutions; Property rights; Fair compensation; Land justice; Open land data; Transparency & anticorruption; Sustainable trade for agricultural commodities
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Fair Compensation in Large-Scale Land Acquisitions (LSALs) Can Act as an Incentive for Those Investments That Truly Are a Development Opportunity
Despite the fact that land is intrinsically fixed in space, a new transnational market for land is born. Indeed, data from the Land Matrix suggests that in the last 16 years 77.5 million hectares of land – a surface slightly smaller than the entire Mozambique – have been transferred to international investors or are currently under negotiation. More than 140 countries are involved in this international market for land either as investor country, or as target country, or both.
Recap-Conference on Fair Compensation (Cape Town) - Day 2 - Morning Session
SESSION 4: FACTORS OF COMPENSATION; VALUE OF LAND
Dr Shai Stern (Dr. Shai Stern (Professor of Law, Bar-Ilan University)
Restoring Justice in Expropriation Law
- There is general agreement on the concept of fair or just market value for compensation, yet this concept is based on different ideas of justice
- A Restorative conception of justice provides a coherent and circumstances’ attentive normative framework to address the most significant challenges related to compensation
LandMark
LandMark is a dynamic, online mapping platform that provides critical information on the collective land and natural resource rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities around the world. The global platform supports local livelihoods and well-being by increasing the visibility of indigenous and community lands and presenting crucial information on the state of land rights.