The International Land Coalition has created a new website that compiles data about large-scale land deals around the world. It is quite a remarkable site, and worth exploring:
Land Matrix | Land Portal
Friday, April 27, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
resistance to land grabbing in Mali and Uganda
An excellent expose of the impact of land grabbing in Mali:
Followed by an excellent expose of the impact of land grabbing in Uganda:
Thursday, April 19, 2012
What does the rapid uptake of mobile money transfer in Kenya really mean for financial inclusion?
An excellent analysis of mobile money transfer that pours cold water on the way that it is perceived by the global development institutions:
What does the rapid uptake of mobile money transfer in Kenya really mean for financial inclusion?
What does the rapid uptake of mobile money transfer in Kenya really mean for financial inclusion?
Thursday, April 5, 2012
current activities, winter 2012
This winter I will continue teaching our first year introduction to international development at Trent University, Human inequality in global perspective. I will also do my graduate teaching, Development economics, on the Master's in Development Practice Program at Emory University, Atlanta, USA. My administrative responsibilities as Chair of the Department of International Development Studies will continue, particularly in light of the academic planning exercise now being undertaken by the University. I will continue my advisory work for the Gender and Economic Policy Management Initiative of the United Nations Development Programme' Gender Team. This will see me travel to once more to Korea as well as the Middle East. I will also finish the revisions to my current paper on contextualizing land grabbing in the developing world, and return to my as-yet unfinished manuscript, Hungry for Change? Farmers, Agrarian Questions and the Global Food Crisis. It will be busy.
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