This webinar will explore responsible business practices on lands rights involving non-indigenous communities.

"Driving agri sector ahead - from farm to value-added products" Contact: [email protected]

Jeudi 24 septembre 2015, de 9h00 à 10h30

L’Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation Société (IFRIS), avec le soutien du Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) et de l’université Paris-Est (UPE), a le plaisir de vous convier à la dixième séance de ses matinales.

Autour de l’ouvrage : Au-delà de l’accaparement. Ruptures et continuités dans l’accès aux ressources naturelles, coordonné par Laura Silva Castañeda, Etienne Verhaegen, Sophie Charlier et An Ansoms.

Les crises alimentaire et financière ayant marqué la fin des années 2000 ont précipité l’acquisition massive de terres par des investisseurs étrangers dans de nombreux pays du Sud. Ces formes souvent spectaculaires d’accaparement de terres ne constituent cependant qu’un aspect des transformations locales et globales des modes d’accès aux ressources naturelles. Dans le cadre de cette matinale, nous engagerons une réflexion sur ces enjeux grâce à un débat autour de l’ouvrage Au-delà de l’accaparement. Ruptures et continuités dans l’accès aux ressources naturelles coordonné par Laura Silva Castañeda, Etienne Verhaegen, Sophie Charlier et An Ansoms.

L’inscription est obligatoire : [email protected]

Plus d'information: http://ifris.org/agenda/dixieme-matinale-de-lifris-au-dela-de-laccaparement/

GAI Asia brings together over 200 agriculture investment stakeholders.

Call for Papers

Deadline for abstract: 3rd April 2015
Deadline for draft paper: 3rd July 2015

The Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and the Institute of Law, Politics and Sustainability are pleased to announce the First Edition of the International Colloquium on Current Issues in Agricultural Law in a Global Perspective. The Colloquium is intended to be an opportunity for Post Docs and Ph.D Candidates to present and discuss their research results and methodological approaches in a supportive environment. The topic of the colloquium is inspired by the wish to share on-going analysis, questions and exploration fields in agricultural law from a global perspective. The aim is to build a community of early career researchers interested in agricultural law and its intersections with other legal areas.

Panel on the role of corruption and impunity in large-scale land investments

Land Inc. is a documentation across Brazil, Dubai, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Madagascar the Philippines and Ukraine to document what some define as a form of neocolonialism, and others as a chance for development: land grabbing and the growing investments in industrial farming and plantations.

Forum brings together institutional investors, family offices, fund and asset managers, regulators and advisors for a discussion of agriculture as an investment option – in Australia and beyond.

An international academic conference, 5-6 June 2015, Chiang Mai University

Land grabbing, conflict and agrarian-environmental transformations: perspectives from East and Southeast Asia

Globally, powerful transnational actors are tapping into lands outside their own borders to provide sufficient food and energy security at home. The original North-South dynamic to this 'global land grab' is developing into a North-South-South dynamic with economically powerful non-Northern countries now getting involved.

This phrase - 'global land grab' - has become a catch-all to describe and analyse this explosion in transnational commercial land transactions. The reaction to this trend by state, corporate and civil society groups has been varied, moving between the extremes of seeing it as a major threat to the lives and livelihoods of rural people, to seeing it as an economic opportunity for the rural poor worldwide.

LDPI aims to provide in-depth and systematic enquiry into the global land grab in order to have deeper, meaningful and productive debates around causes and implications.

Conference papers are available online. For more informsation contact: [email protected]

La séance aura lieu Mercredi 27 mai 2015 à 19h45, au Comptoir Général à Paris (80 Quai de Jemmapes, 75010 Paris). Elle sera suivie d'une discussion libre et informelle autour d'un verre, au même endroit.

Confirmez-nous, s'il vous plait, votre présence par mail à : [email protected]