Haroon's devlog

This  is without doubt the best explanation of the history, structure and impact of successive US Farm Bills that I have seen.  Clear, acce...

An article in the current Watershed Sentinel that draws upon an interview that I gave a few days ago: Land Grabs & the Canadian Co...

 The International Land Coalition has created a new website that compiles data about large-scale land deals around the world.  It is quite a...

An excellent expose of the impact of land grabbing in Mali: Followed by an excellent expose of the impact of land grabbing in Uganda:

An excellent short animation from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations that shows how so much water is embedded withi...

An excellent, provocative piece by Raj Patel in February's The Atlantic makes a clarion call: abolish the food industry. Abolish the Fo...

From the Union of Concerned Scientists in the United States, an excellent introduction to the failures of industrial agriculture by way of M...

An excellent assessment of the Draft Political Resolution of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which highlights the extent to which it...

This is an interesting analysis by Justin Sandefur of the Center for Global Development in Washington. I don't agree with all of it, bu...

On 27 October while on mission in Korea for the United Nations Development Programme I along with several others received a request from the...

An excellent short video from Oxfam that explains the motivations behind land grabbing in developing countries.

An excellent article from The Hindu on how social inequality in access to mobile telephones in rural India mirrors social inequality in acc...

Sent to me by one of my students, this BBC posting provides a fascinating glimpse into the logic of the world food system, as thousands of f...

An excellent video article from the Financial Times on agribusiness in Brazil, the superpower of the new agricultural countries. http://www....

Jyoti Basu, who was the longest-serving democratically-elected communist leader in the world, has died in Kolkata. For students of internat...

I have just been sent this excellent report from the NHK World Service on land grabbing in Africa. It is well worth the 9 minutes it takes ...

The international community has turned its full attention to Yemen in the wake of the attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound aircraft on Christm...

The international community has turned its full attention to Yemen in the wake of the attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound aircraft on Christm...

The BBC Vietnamese service has followed up my earlier interview with a further series of questions regarding international attitudes towards...

Last week the BBC's Vietnamese service did an interview with me on land disputes in Vietnam. The full text, in Vietnamese, is available...