What is LDPI? More than a decade ago, the Land Deals Politics Initiative (LDPI) was launched as a loose network of scholars and activists concerned about the rise of land, water and green grabs across the world and the consequences for rural livelihoods and agrarian relations. A massive wave of investment in land, resulting in expropriation and…
Multidisciplinary practitioner with more than 10 years of working experience in the rural development sector, including state interventions, global value chain studies, and farmer organizations analysis. I hold a PhD in Rural Sociology from Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and a Master’s in International Politics (Globalization, Poverty and Development) from Newcastle University, United Kingdom. I have…
Chukwuma Ume is a lecturer at the University of Nigeria. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Nigeria and pursued his Master of Science degree in Environment and Development at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Currently, he is undertaking his PhD at the Center for…
Julio Gutiérrez is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is originally from El Salvador. His research interest focuses on the political ecology of financialization, particularly the relationship between speculative urbanism and resource grabbing in Central America. His dissertation project explores the process of gentrification in Cordillera…
Rahma Hassan, CASAS’ member, and colleagues have just published a new article in Nomadic People. Their article examines the process of securing land rights for pastoralists in Kenya, applying the concept of sedentism to understand the impact of two recent changes in Kenyan land governance. Drawing on fieldwork among pastoralists living in Samburu County in…