List of accepted papers and panels - Contested Global Landscapes

www.iss.nl/ldpiInternational Academic Conference onGlobal Land Grabbing II17-19 October 2012The Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) is organizing a second international academicworkshop on ‘Global Land Grabbing’ to be held on 17-19 October 2012 at CornellUniversity in Ithaca, NY, USA. The event will be co-organized and hosted by the CornellDepartment of Development Sociology. Among the confirmed keynote speakers is thenew Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Brazilianacademic, José Graziano da Silva.This conference is a follow up to the highly successful 2011 conference held 4-6 April atthe Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, England(www.future-agricultures.org/land-grab.html). At that conference, 120 papers werepresented that sketched the broad outlines of land grabs happening across the globe. Aconvergence of factors has been driving a revaluation of land by powerful economic andpolitical actors. This is occurring across the world, but especially in the global South. Asa result, there has been a dramatic rise in large-scale land deals unfolding worldwide. Thephrase ‘global land grab’ has become a catch-all phrase to describe this explosion of(trans)national commercial and government-driven land transactions revolving around theproduction and sale of food and biofuels, conservation and mining activities.The purpose of the 2012 conference is to continue deepening and broadening ourunderstanding of global land deals. An overriding concern of the conference is withagrarian change: what changes in broad agrarian structures are emerging? Are land dealsmotivated by new forms of agrarian capitalism or repeats of the past? What is the natureand extent of rural social differentiation – in terms of class, gender, ethnicity – followingchanges in land use and land property relations as well as organizations of production andexchange? At the same time, we have remained open to broader topics around land grabintersections with political economy, political ecology and political sociology, and areconvening a series of parallel sessions on a range of themes.This conference is supported by:

The programme will be structured around several clusters of panels, which participantsmay wish to follow, as a ‘stream’ of the conference.Main Panel ClusterFraming the Debate: How can we make sense of the politics of land deals indifferent contexts? What are the dynamics of international politics of land grabs in thebroader context of energy, mining, forestry and conservation; and the role of bigcapital and powerful interests? How has land become a commodity, and how is thislinked to constructions of class and to global crises? From regional perspectives, havedevelopment-induced displacement and dispossession occurred? How and to whatextent and with what immediate and long-term outcomes and implications for rurallivelihoods, including new rural refugees or internally displaced peoples (IDPs)? Howhave dynamics of accumulation and reproduction been shaped by dispossession?Understanding the Grabbers: Which actors are involved, what are their interestsand alliances, and how do private and public sector interests articulate, at local,national and transnational levels? How are land deal contracts developed betweenforeign and local companies and national states and financiers? Who finances thesedeals? What is the role of sovereign funds, hedge funds, pension funds and otherfinancial instrument? Who is involved? How does the money flow? How and to whatextent has (trans)national finance speculation played a role in land deals in thecontext of the convergence of food, fuels, climate and finance crises?Governance: Have global land policies of different overseas development agencies(World Bank, FAO, EU, IFAD, and so on) contributed to facilitating/encouraging orblocking/discouraging land deals? What are the limitations of ‘code of conduct’,certification, regulation, information dissemination, and capacity-building strategies?How are institutions involved in governance, at local, regional and national levels,contesting authority to govern land rights and land deals? What are the emergingtrends around dynamics of power, elites and corruption; land as a source ofpatronage? How is a new dynamic of ‘enclosure’ operating? What assumptions aboutproperty rights, tenure and land access are being deployed? What have been theoutcomes of tenure reforms and attempts at formalization of rights?Resistance: What is the range of reactions from local communities to theseinvestments? To what extent have agrarian political struggles been provoked by thenew land investment dynamics? What are the issues that unite or divide the ruralpoor, organized movements, and rural communities around the issue of land deals?What responses have there been to resistance, and what have the outcomes been?What are some of the relevant emerging alternatives from key actors? Are some ofthe traditional policies such as land reform, and some of the more recent alternativevisions such as ‘food sovereignty’ (and ‘land sovereignty’) relevant and useful inprotecting and promoting the interest of the rural poor in the midst of these(trans)national commercial land deals?2

Small Panel ClusterLabour Regimes and ‘Business Models’: How do different institutionalarrangements – and the associated business models for such investments, rangingfrom estate models to contract farming - influence livelihoods, labour, resource useand agrarian transformation?Green Grabbing: What environmental rationales are being deployed to appropriateland and nature? How does nature conservation, carbon sequestration, ecosystemservice valuation intersect with land grabbing?Conflict: In what ways have wider social and political conflict enabled and financedland deals, and how have the deals in turn provided revenue streams fuellingviolence? Which actors are engaged in these processes, and what are their practicesand strategies?Individual Panel Cluster GenderHistoryPolicy NarrativesWaterMiningInfrastructureGrabs in the NorthLivelihood Impacts3

AbstractsThere was a very positive response to our Call for Abstracts: approximately 300 abstractswere submitted, the majority of which were of very high quality. The organizers invitedpapers that offer rigorous and innovative analysis. Papers based on recent, original fieldresearch were especially welcomed. Only 138 abstracts have been selected and invitedmainly due to the physical limitation of the venue. Below is the provisional list of titlesand authors. Draft papers are expected to be made available at the LDPI websitebeginning early September 2012.LDPI Coordinating Committee:Saturnino M. (‘Jun’) Borras Jr., International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), TheHague; Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS) at ISS (junborras5@gmail.com)Ruth Hall, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of theWestern Cape, South Africa (rhall@uwc.ac.za)Ian Scoones, IDS of the University of Sussex, and FutureAgricultures Consortium, FAC (i.scoones@ids.ac.uk)Ben White, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague – The Resources,Environment and Livelihoods Research Cluster (white@iss.nl)Wendy Wolford, Polson Institute of Global Development, Cornell University, USA(www43@cornell.edu)For further details about LDPI, see: www.iss.nl/ldpiAddress for conference correspondence: landpolitics@gmail.com4

PANELS, PAPERS & CHAIRSProvisional allocation of successful abstracts to panels and allocation of chairs;Plenary and schedule will be announced laterTHIS IS ALL SUBJECT TO CHANGEPLENARY SESSIONSPlenary I: Opening ProgramChair: Ruth Hall, PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, South AfricaWelcome: Wendy Wolford, Development Sociology, Cornell University, USAWelcome: Saturnino (‘Jun’) Borras Jr., JPS Editor, International Institute of SocialStudies (ISS), The Hague, and LDPI co-coordinatorOpening address: Shelley Feldman, Director, Polson Institute, Cornell University, USAPlenary discussion: defining the big questions for the conference.Plenary II: ‘Big questions’ plenary panelChair: Ben White, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), NetherlandsDzodzi Tsikata, University of GhanaJohn Wilkinson, UFRRJJesse Ribot, University of IllinoisPhil McMichael, Cornell UniversityLorenzo Cotula, IIEDMelissa Leach, IDS SussexPlenary III: Roundtable on Methodologies: Identifying, Counting & UnderstandingLand GrabsChair: Ian Scoones, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UKDiscussant No. 1 (tbc)Discussant No. 2 (tbc)Speaker from Land Matrix PartnershipPlus, others (speakers to be confirmed)Plenary IV: Panel on ‘Beyond the Voluntary Guidelines’Chair: Ruth Hall, Institute of Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, South Africa5

Speakers to be confirmed: CSOs – Via Campesina and others; Multi/bilateral; AcademicsPlenary V: Concluding ConversationChair: Ben White, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), NetherlandsIan Scoones, Institute of Development Studies, UKDzodzi Tsikata, University of Ghana, GhanaJosé Graziano da Silva, Director-General, UN Food and Agriculture OrganizationVia Campesina (speaker to be confirmed)PARALLEL SESSIONSPanel 1: Framing the Debate: Global Perspectives*Chair: Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Trent University, Canada (tbc)*Tania Li, Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Canada, What is Land? AnAnthropological Perspective on How Land Becomes an Investment Opportunity*Farshad Araghi, Department of Sociology, Florida Atlantic University, Land GrabsRedux? Land Rights, ‘Hunger Regimes,’ and the Global Crisis of Reproduction*Elena Baglioni, Queen Mary’s University / Future Agricultures Consortium, AgrarianChange and the Dynamics of Land Grabbing in Africa: Investigating Theoretical andHistorical Antecedents*Pauline Peters, Harvard University, Land enclosures and surplus peoplePanel 2: Framing the Debate: Regional Perspectives*Chair: Carlos Oya, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK (tbc)*Michael Levien, University of California-Berkeley, USA, The Politics of Dispossession:Theorizing India’s “Land Wars”*Julianne Hazlewood, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, “Los GringosComen Gente”: Surrounding and Infiltrating Fourth World Territories via ClimateChange Mitigation Development in Ecuador’s Northwestern Pacific Frontier*Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Netherlands /Institute for Agrarian and Rural Studies, National Coordination of NGOs andCooperatives (IDEAR-CONGCOOP), Guatemala, The Politics of Contemporary LandControl-grabbing in Guatemala6

*Ben Cousins, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University ofthe Western Cape, South Africa, Reproduction/accumulation dynamics in the wake ofland grabs: South African experiences and implications for global debatesPanel 3: Understanding the Grabbers I: New Financiers*Chair: Jim Boyce, University of Massachusetts, USA (tbc)*Madeleine Fairbairn, Community and Environmental Sociology, University ofWisconsin-Madison, USA, “Just another asset class”? Farmland investment andfinancialization*Mazen Labban, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, and Miles Kenney-Lazar, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, USA, Capitalizing land:Sovereign Wealth Funds in the global land grab*George Meszaros, University of Warwick, UK and Sérgio Sauer, Universidade deBrasília, Brazil, Bank and land: origins and drivers of international investments in landand agro-industry*Emmanuel Tumusiime, Oxfam America, USA, Sector-wide Analysis of theParticipation of U.S. Investment Funds in Large-Scale Land AcquisitionsPanel 4: Understanding the Grabbers II: Views from the “North”*Chair: Eric Holt-Gimenez, Foodfirst / Institute for Food and Development Policy, USA*Steven Wolf, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, USA, Criticalanalysis of categories implicated in assessment of land grabs: An empirical perspectivefrom the Adirondacks in New York State, USA*Sarah Knuth, University of California-Berkeley, USA, Global Finance and the GreenPremium*Derek Hall, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, Whereis Japan in the Global Land Grab Debate?*Ward Anseeuw, CIRAD & University of Pretoria, South Africa, Mathieu Boche,CIRAD, Tinashe Kapuya, University of Pretoria, South Africa, Stéphanie Aubin, andIshmael Sunga, Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions, Global landdeals – The Case of South African farmers investing in AfricaPanel 5: Understanding the Grabbers III: Comparative PerspectivesChair: (tbc)*Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP Brazil andElizabeth Alice Clements, Land Grabbing, Agribusiness and the Peasantry in Brazil andMozambique7

*Ariane Goetz, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University,Canada, How different are the UK and China? “Land grabbing” countries incomparative perspective*Sukyeung Lee, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Netherlands, and AndersRiel Müller, Roskilde University, Denmark, Overseas Agricultural Investment:Comprehensive Analysis of Korean Strategy within the Global Food System*Kian Goh, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, USA, Singapore and Eco-Expansionism in the Age of Peak-EverythingPanel 6: Understanding the Grabbers IV: Regional & Local Actors*Chair: Sam Moyo, African Institute of Agrarian Studies, Zimbabwe*Lee Mackey, Department of Planning, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),USA, The Green and the Gold: Brazilian Elites in the Regional Production of EthanolFrontiers in Latin America*Marion Dixon, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, USA [Elitesin Egypt - title to be confirmed]*Yang Jiao, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, USA, Land deals byChinese private enterprises in Africa: A case study in Ghana*Justa Hopma [institutional affiliation tbc], [Jordan in Sudan - paper title to beconfirmed]*Pablo Lapegna, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia at Athens, USA, LandDeals in Argentina: Local, National and Global AgribusinessPanel 7: Understanding the Grabbers V: Emerging Economies*Chair: Ye Jingzhong, China Agricultural University, China (tbc)*Giuseppina Siciliano, Department of Regional Planning, University IUAV of Venice,Italy, Rural-urban migration and domestic land grabbing in China: drivers, impacts andtrade-offs*Marcos A. Pedlowski, Laboratório de Estudos do Espaço Antrópico, Centro de Ciênciasdo Homem,Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Brazil, Mega-projects andState-driven Land Grabbing in Brazil: Violence and Dispossession in the Name ofEconomic Development*Sudeshna Mitra, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, USA,Contested Desires: Making Peri-urban “Global Cities” through Land Grabs in India8

*Sai Balakrishnan, Urban Planning, Harvard University, USA, Land Conflicts AlongHighways in India: A Commentary on India’s Agrarian to Industrial Transition*Joshua Muldavin, Sarah Lawrence College, USA, Land from the Tiller: China’s role inglobal processes of land dispossessionPanel 8: Governance I: Communities and Consultation*Chair: Liz Fitting, Dalhousie University, Canada (tbc)*Cécile Famerée, Leiden Institute of Areas Studies, University of Leiden, Netherlands,Can transparency and consultation make land grabbing pro-poor? A critical look at thecredibility of land rights institutions in the Peruvian jungle*Susanne Johanna Väth, Institute for Co-operation in Developing Countries, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany, Gaining neighbours or disruptive factors – whathappened when large-scale land-based investment in the Ghanaian oil palm sector metthe local population on the ground?*Amanda Hammar, Centre for African Studies, Copenhagen University, Denmark, TheMissing Middle: Exploring what lies between mega-project mania and peasant populismin Mozambique*Paul Munro-Faure, Food and Agricultural Organization, United Nations, Italy, Land,Tenure and PropertyPanel 9: Governance II: Local PoliticsChair: Ben White, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Netherlands*Lauren Honig, Department of Government, Cornell University, USA, State LandTransfers and Local Authorities in Zambia*Irna Hofman, Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands, Growing ricewithout water? Rural perceptions and responses to mystifying Chinese farm practices inTajikistan*Erwin Suryana and Dianto Bachriadi, Agrarian Resource Center (ARC), Indonesia,Land Grabbing and Speculation for Energy Business: A Case Study of Exxon OilBusiness Expansion in Bojonegoro of East Java, Indonesia*Festus Boamah, Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Norway, How chiefsformalize relationship with land users in recent times: Illuminating the politics of landdispossessions during land transactions for biofuel investments in GhanaPanel 10: Governance III: Territorial Control & RegulationChair: Sergio Sauer, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil9

*Aaron de Grassi, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, USA,Geographies of Construction and Trajectories of Agrarian Change in Oil-Boom Angola*Meghan Morris, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, USA, Colombia:displacement, property, and land reform*Lucia Goldfarb, International Developments Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands,The frontiers of GM soya in Argentina: Opening a space for new forms of land controland land governance*Laureen Elgert, Social Science and Policy Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,USA, The role of commodity certification in greening the global land grab: the case ofsoy certification*Matias Margulis, Department of International Studies / UNBC & Max Planck Institutefor the Study of Societies, Canada, Thematic panel title: Land Grabbing and GlobalGovernance*Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Jenny C. Franco, Carol Hunsberger (paper presenter), WangChunyu, New Agents in Global Land Use: The Role of State-capital AlliancePanel 11: Governance IV: Understanding the StateChair: Dzodzi Tsikata, University of Ghana, Ghana*Fred Nelson, Maliasili Initiatives, Emmanuel Sulle, University of Maryland, USA,Edward Lekaita, Ujamaa Community Resource Team, Tanzania, and Andrew Williams,Maliasili Initiatives, Land, Voice, and the Crisis of the State in Contemporary Tanzania*Megan MacInnes, Global Witness, Corruption and large-scale land acquisitions: ananalysis of the role high level corruption plays in enabling elite capture of land*Colin Filer, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University,Australia, The Commission of Inquiry into Special Agricultural and Business Leases inPapua New Guinea: Fresh Details for the Portrait of a Process of Expropriation*Ruth Hall and Gaynor Paradza, Future Agricultures Consortium / Institute for Poverty,Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape, South Africa,Foxes Guarding the Hen-house: The Fragmentation of ‘The State’ in Negotiations overLand Deals in Congo and MozambiquePanel 12: Governance V: Governance at Multiple Levels*Chair: Lorenzo Cotula, International Institute of Environment and Development, UK*Laura German, University of Georgia, USA, Multi-level governance of large-scale landacquisitions: Mapping the terrain10

*Rhonda Ferguson, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of IrelandGalway, Ireland, Land acquisitions and states’ right to food obligations: Potential forcompatibility or conflict?*Mercedes Stickler, World Resources Institute, USA, Governance of Large-Scale LandAcquisitions in Uganda: The role of the Uganda Investment Authority*Smita Narula, School of Law, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, USA, [titleto be confirmed]Panel 13: Governance VI: Land Administration and Tenure Reforms*Chair: Ryan Isakson, University of Toronto, Canada (tbc)*Michael Dwyer, Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern,Switzerland, The formalization fix? Land titling, agribusiness concessions andgeographical transparency in contemporary Cambodia*Julian Quan, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich UK / MozambiqueCommunity Lands Initiative (iTC), Policy and institutional challenges in land rightssecurity and management of land investment in Mozambique*Liza Grandia, Department of Native American Studies, University of California-Davis,USA, and Bayron Milian, University of San Carlos-Petén, Guatemala, Policy Grab:Evaluating Land Administration Projects in Petén, GuatemalaPanel 14: Resistance I: Local Struggles & Covert ResistanceChair: Ruth Meinzen-Dick, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA (tbc)*Theresa Selfa and Renata Moreno, Department of Environmental Studies, SyracuseUniversity, USA, Expansion of Sugarcane Ethanol in the Valle de Cauca, Colombia:Exploring Land and Water Conflicts and Prospects for Governance of Biofuels*Giuliano Martiniello, Makerere University, The Accumulation of Dispossession andResistance in Northern Uganda*Connor Cavanagh and Tor Benjaminsen, Department of International Environment andDevelopment Studies (Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway, OfBiopolitics, Resistance, and Livelihood Sovereignty: Linking Cases from Mali, Tanzania,and Uganda*Karen McAllister, Department of Anthropology, McGill University, CanadaRubber, rights and resistance: local and transnational land grabbing in northern LaosPanel 15: Resistance II: Collective ActionChair: Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands11

*Esther Mwangi, CIFOR, Indonesia, Emmanuel Luoga, Sokoine University, JosephBahati, Makerere University, and Michael Gachanja, East African Society, Large-scaleland acquisitions in East Africa: Civil society and collective action for securing rights toland and forests*Cliff Welch, History Department, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil, Resistingthe Land Grabbers in Latin America from the Cold War to the Globalization Eras*Tapiwa Uchizi Nyasulu, Centre for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn,Germany, Acts of Resistance by Farming Communities as a way of holding TraditionalAuthorities Accountable in Land Administration in Ghana*Jeanne Koopman, African Studies Center, Boston University, USA, Land Grabs,Women’s Farming, and Women’s Activism*Dana Graef, Anthropology and Environmental Studies. Yale University, Pathways ofTransnational Collaboration in Promoting Small-Scale and Organic Agriculture in LatinAmericaPanel 16: Resistance III: Movements Gaining MomentumChair: (tbc)*Bradley Wilson, Geography, West Virginia University, USA Reclaiming the People'sProperty: Land Grabbing and Rural Worker Resistance in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua*John Wilkinson and Debora Lerrer,Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Impactof Restrictive Legislation and Popular Opposition Movements on Foreign LandInvestments in Brazil: The Case of the Forestry and Pulp Paper Sector and Stora Enso*Dianne Rocheleau, Clark University, USA, Resistance to Green Land Grabbing: Newarticulations within and between social movements in Chiapas, Mexico*Cristián Alarcón, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University ofAgricultural Sciences and Center for Development / Environment Studies, UppsalaUniversity, Sweden, Peasants and wood, capitalist development of forestry andcontemporary global land grabbing: On resistance, proletarianization and the making ofsocial-ecological movementsPanel 17: Resistance IV: Resistance & CitizenshipChair: Marc Edelman, City University of New York, USA (tbc)*Devparna Roy, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, USA,Resistance to Land Grabs and Peasants' Practices of Citizenship in DemocraticDevelopmental States: Case Studies from India12

*Joel Correia, Geography Department, University of Colorado, USA, Ore Yvy: LessonsFrom Past Land Grabs and Their Implications on Current and Future Struggles forIndigenous Peoples in the Paraguay-Brazil Borderlands*Preeti Sampat [no institutional affiliation information], The ‘Goan Impasse’: Resistanceto SEZs and Land Rights in Goa, India*Andreas Neef, Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University and Siphat Touch,Ministry of Rural Development, Cambodia, Land Grabbing in Cambodia: Narratives,Mechanisms, ResistancePanel 18: Resistance V: Responses to Resistance / counter-strategiesChair: Wendy Wolford, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, USA*Catherine Corson, Mount Holyoke College, USA, Grabbing the Green Economy:Disabling resistance through participatory process*Victor Chikaipa, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Malawi, A Critique of thegovernment responses on oppositions and protests over land grabs in Malawi: A Casestudy of the Greek and Chinese land leases in Mangochi and Salima districts respectively*Dian Yanuardy, Sajogyo Institute / Southeast Asia Studies, Gajah Mada University,Indonesia, Challenging Peasant’s Reclaiming of the Commons: A Project of“Accumulation by Dispossession” in Yogyakarta, Indonesia*Zoe Brent, Universidad del Salvador, Argentina, Governance and resistance in Jujuy:territorial discourses and mechanisms of land controlPanel 19: Resistance VI: Scaling up Resistance / Transnational ResistanceChair: Jun Borras, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Netherlands*Emily Polack and Lorenzo Cotula, International Institute for Environment andDevelopment (IIED), UK, Resistance Ready: Under what conditions can citizens achievejustice and equitable outcomes in the context of the global land rush?*Paulette Nonfodji, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Small Farm Holders’Response to Global Land Rush in Benin: Linkages of international solidarity betweencivil societies*Leah Temper & Joan Martinez Alier, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain,Mapping resistance to the global landgrab: definitions, financial activism and alliances*LaShandra Sullivan, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago,USA, ‘Occupying’ Agribusiness: Land Protest Camps and Third Party LaborContractors in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil13

Panel 20: Labour Regimes and ‘Business Models’ I: Joint VenturesChair: Ben Cousins, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, South Africa*Kan Liu, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, USA,Transforming Villages: A Case Study of the Consolidation of Peasant Land for Large-Scale Commercial Farming in Rural China*Tshililo Manenzhe, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS),University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Land reform, large-scale commercialagriculture and the agrarian question of labour in the Levubu Valley, Limpopo Province,South Africa*Adrian Sinkler, Department of Political Science, University of Washington, USA,Accumulation by Reconversion in Southern Mexico*Farai Mtero, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University ofthe Western Cape, South Africa, Commercialisation and de-agrarianisation: ‘massive’maize production schemes and rural livelihoods in the Eastern Cape.Panel 21: Labour Regimes and ‘Business Models’ II: Outgrowers as the ‘Win-win’?Chair: Ruth Hall, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, South Africa*Claudia Piacenza, University of Wageningen, Netherlands, Negotiating gender propertyrelations over land: oil palm production in Kalangala district, Uganda*Christophe Gironde, Asian Studies, Graduate Institute of International and DevelopmentStudies, Switzerland, Rubber-tree boom in Cambodia: assessing small landholdersenthusiasm*Alex Dubb, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University ofthe Western Cape, South Africa, Social reproduction, accumulation and classdifferentiation: small-scale sugar cane growers in Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal, SouthAfrica*Harold Liversage and Steven Jonckheere, International Fund for AgriculturalDevelopment (IFAD), Italy, IFAD’s experience in supporting inclusive business modelsthat secure land and other natural resource rightsPanel 22: Green Grab I: Discourses and MechanismsChair: Ian Scoones, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK*Kathleen McAfee, International Relations, San Francisco State University, USA, Sellingnature through green grabbing: discourses and resistances*Karen Rignall, Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Kentucky / Centerfor Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, USA, The aporias of green14

energy: land grabs, sovereignty, and the production of solar energy in pre-SaharanMorocco*Hannah Wittman, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University ofBritish Columbia, Canada, Climate, Carbon, Commodification, and Crisis: Unequalexchange and the carbonization of agriculture in the Americas*Adrienne Johnson, Clark University, USA, Green governance or green grab? TheRoundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Ecuador*Jennifer Tucker, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Smallholders, Speculationand “Sustainable Soy”: Paraguay and the Global Land GrabPanel 23: Green Grab II: Conservation as GrabbingChair: Esther Mwangi, CIFOR, Indonesia (tbc)*Claire Bedelian, University College London / International Livestock Research Institute,Wildlife conservancies and land leasing in the Maasai Mara, Kenya*Alice Kelly University of California, Berkeley, USA, "Property Vacuum" Productionand the Social and Ecological Implications of Open Access in Waza National Park,Cameroon*David Mwesigye Tumusiime, Department of Environmental Management, MakerereUniversity, Uganda and Espen Sjaastad, Department of International Environment andDevelopment Studies (Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway, TheCosts and Benefits of Conservation: Consolation, Inequality, and Attitudes aroundBwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda*Esteve Corbera, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònomade Barcelona, Spain and Adrian Martin, School of International Development, University of EastAnglia, UK, Simple principles, complex practices? Early experience of community-basedREDD+ in Tanzania*Pablo Pacheco, CIFOR, and Jose Heder Benatti, Federal University of Para, Landappropriation processes under changing environmental governance in the Amazon: Alook at their implications for land use and developmentPanel 24: Conflict I: Conflict and Post-Conflict Grabs*Chair: Charles Geisler, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University,USA*Bhavani Fonseka, Centre for Policy Alternatives, Sri Lanka, State Policy and LandIssues in Post War Sri Lanka: A Critique on Current Practices and Implications15

*Eria Serwajja, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University ofthe Western Cape, South Africa, The quest for development through dispossession:Examining Amuru sugar industry in Lakang-Amuru district of Northern Uganda*Ian Baird, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, War,Political Memories, Landscapes and Land Concessions in the Lao People’s DemocraticRepublic*Stefano Ruzza, Department of Culture, Politics and Society, University of Turin (Italy),Mapping Practices of Violent Land Grabbing*Jairo Baquero Melo, Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Land grabbing andconflicts over territories: Agro-industrial projects in Lower AtratoPanel 25: Conflict II: Violence & Narco-GrabsChair: tbc*Kendra McSweeney, David Wrathall, Erik Neilsen, and Zoe Pearson, Department ofEnvironmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, Narco-traffickingLandscapes: Drug flows as accelerants of land dispossession*Teo Ballvé, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, USA,Grassroots Masquerades: Paramilitary Violence, Development, and Land-Laundering inNorthwest Colombia*Jefferson Boyer, Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University, USA,Wilfredo Cardona, former director, Ministry of Agriculture, Honduras, and Andrés León,Department of Anthropology, City University New York, USA, The Bloody LandConflict in Bajo Aguán, Honduras: peasant struggles, a compliant state, and the rise oftransnational agro-industrial biofuels*Juana Davila, Social Anthropology, Harvard University, USA, Conceptualizing landgrabbing and restitution in Colombia: ethnographic notes on violent capitalism and thetechnocratic imaginationPanel 26: Gender & Social DifferentiationChair: Ben White, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Netherlands*Patience Mutopo, University of Cologne, Germany, University of Wageningen,Netherlands and Ruzivo Trust, Zimbabwe, and Manase Chiweshe, Future AgriculturesConsortium / Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, Large ScaleLand Deals and the Politics of Livelihoods: Experiences of Women Small- HolderFarmers in Chisumbanje, Zimbabwe*Randi Kaarhus, Department of International Environment and Development Studies(Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway, If women’s land rights arenot “real” property rights? Land deals in northern Mozambique16

*Jean Lee, University of Vermont, USA [paper title tbc]*Nidhi Tandon (Networked Intelligence), Marc Wegerif (Oxfam GB), Patience Mutopo,Prosper Ngowi (Mzumbe University), and Abena Boateng, Rural Women and CorporateLand Investments in AfricaPanel 27: History*Chair: Marc Edelman, CUNY, USA (tbc)*Liz Alden Wily, Independent scholar, Towards the New Colonialism? Trajectories ofLand Rushes in Africa*Jennifer Bair, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder, andPhillip Hough, Florida Atlantic University, USA, The Developmental Origins ofNeoliberal Land Grabs: Land, Livelihoods and Dispossession in Mexico and Colombia*Ernest Molua, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University ofBuea, Assoua Eyong Joe and Grace Limunga Sama, Centre for IndependentDevelopment Research, Cameroon, Economics of Colonial and Contemporary LandGrab in Cameroon: Contextual Impacts of Agrarian Capitalism on Labour Supply andLivelihoods*Upik Djalins, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, USA,Lessons Learned from a Colonial Land Grab in Banjoewangi, East Java, 1909-1939Panel 28: Policy NarrativesChair: Fouad Makki, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, USA*John Galaty, Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Canada, ‘Unused’ Landand Unfulfilled Promises: Justifications for Displacing Communities in East Africa*Heather Plumridge Bedi, University of Cambridge, UK, UN Special Rapporteurs,Human Rights, and Food Insecurity: Contesting Agricultural Land Grabbing for CoalMining in Phulbari, Bangladesh*Jennifer Baka, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, USA, Unpackingthe Waste: A History of Wasteland Politics in India*Mindi Schneider, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, USA,“We will feed ourselves!” Food Security Politics in Post-Reform China*Ben Wisner, University College, London, Adolfo Mascarehas, LINKS, Tanzania,Charles Bwenge, University of Florida, and Tom Smucker, Edna Wangui and DanWeiner, Ohio University, Let Them Eat (Maize) Cake: Climate Change Discourse,Misinformation and Land Grabbing in Tanzania17

Panel 29: Water*Chair: (tbc)*Anders Jägerskog, Stockholm International Water Institute, Sweden, Land Acquisitionsand transboundary waters?*Amandine Adamczewski Amandin, Thomas Hertzog, Jean-Yves Jamin, Jean-Christophe Poussin, Jean-Philippe Tonneau, CIRAD, France, How land grabbingoverturns the governance of irrigated areas in Mali? State, Donors, Farmers seeks tofind their roles*Tewodros Assefa, Antalya University, Turkey, and Kathleen Guillozet, University ofCalifornia, Davis, USA, Using Crop Water Footprints to Estimate the Water ResourceImplications of Land Deals in Ethiopia*Alejandro Camargo, Department of Geography, Syracuse University, USA, WaterGrabbing: Wetlands Conservation, Contragovernmentality, and the Violence of Propertyin Colombia*Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, Gert JanVelwisch, Wageningen University and Jennifer Franco, Transnational Institute [title to beconfirmed]Panel 30: Mining*Chair: Tony Bebbington, School of Geography, Clarke University, USA (tbc)*Markus Kröger, University of California, Berkeley / University of Helsinki, Finland,Iron Mines and the Forging of Contentious Agency in India and Brazil*Debbie Becher, Department of Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA,Value Brokerage: American Struggles over Fracking Rights*Spencer Schwartz, Industrial Labor Relations, Cornell University, USA, CorporateCoercion and the Use of Force in Global Land Grabs*Muriel Côte, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, UK, What's in a right? Acase of land governance at the intersection of neo-liberalisation and decentralisation inthe gold mining sector of Burkina Faso*David Fig, Environmental Evaluation Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa,Extraction and displacement: the potential social and environmental impacts of hydraulicfracturing in South AfricaPanel 31: InfrastructureChair: Liza Grandia [tbc, University of California, Davis]18

*Sonia Arellano-López, Institute of Global Cultural Studies (IGCS), USA, Conflictingland use agendas: environment, indigenous land rights and development in centralBolivia. The case of the Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS)*Abdirizak Nunow, Future Agricultures Consortium / Inter-Parliamentary Union ofIGAD (IPU-IGAD), Ethiopia, Displacement and Dispossession of the Boni Community:The Kenya Government Dilemma on the New Port of Lamu*Jeremy Campbell, Anthropology Department, Roger Williams University, USA, TheFuture is Priceless: Land Grabbing as a Speculative Encounter with Governance in theBrazilian Amazon*Jia Ching Chen, City & Regional Planning and Global Metropolitan Studies, Universityof California, Berkeley, USA, Solar Farms and Carbon Credit Forests: New LandEnclosures, Natural Capital and Rural Transformation in ChinaPanel 32: Grabs in the North*Chair: Rosanne Rutten, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (tbc)*Natalia Mamonova, Institute of Social Studies, Rotterdam, Netherlands Black Earth,Red Barons, ‘Green’ Investors and Grey Communities*Oane Visser and Michelle Steggerda, Department of Anthropology and DevelopmentStudies, Radboud University, Netherlands, Abandoned land, megafarms and interactionbetween investors and rural communities in Russian agriculture*David Kay, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, USA, NaturalGas Development in the United States: A Land Grab? Too Far a Reach?Panel 33: Livelihood ImpactsChair: Ian Scoones, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UKMaru Shete, African Studies Centre, Leiden University, Netherlands, Impact of Landtransfer for Commercial Agriculture on Household Income and Food Security inOromiya Regional State, Ethiopia: The Case of Karaturi Global Agricultural PLCLakshmi Balachandran, Elizabeth Herb, Erin O'Reilly and Shahbano Tirmizi, ColumbiaUniversity, USA, Food Security and Livelihood Impacts of Commercial Palm OilPlantations in LiberiaChris Huggins, Carleton University, Canada, Consolidating land, consolidating power:What future for smallholder farming in Rwanda’s ‘Green Revolution’?19