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Land grabbing and share of the value added in agricultural processes. A new look at the distribution of land revenues. (Hubert Cochet and Michel Merlet)

AGTER took part in the International Conference Global Land Grabbing (Brighton 6-8 April 2011), organized by the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI), the Journal of Peasant Studies et the Future Agricultures Consortium of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS, Sussex University). Hubert Cochet (Professor, AgroParisTech [Paris Institute of Technology for Food and Environmental Sciences] and Chairman of AGTER) and Michel Merlet (Director of AGTER) presented a paper which explore the (...)

In June 2010, the Technical Committee on “Land Tenure and Development” published the document "Large scale land appropriations: Analysis of the phenomenon and proposed guidelines for future action", result of the reflexions facilitated by AGTER about large scale land appropriations. The working group has included members of the Technical Committee, members of the French Interministerial Group on Food Security (GISA) and representatives of civil society organisations. This process of analysis (...)

Synthesis of the contributions of a working group composed of the ’Land tenure and development’ technical committee’s members and other institutional and NGO’s experts.

Call-Voluntary guidelines The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations- FAO has initiated a process of discussion which should lead to the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines for Land and Natural Resource Tenure. The attached text gives a quick overview of this process along with its objectives and structure. It is within this context that the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty has convened and hosted the regional meeting of Civil Society (...)

Securing land rights as a Global Public Good. By Pierre Merlet

During the last 20 years, an increased concern about global issues has emerged. Some problems like global warming, financial instability or global conflicts have led to the development of global governance schemes in order to try to solve them. Recently, the phenomena of massive land acquisitions in developing countries by private investors or foreign states (usually called “land grab” in the press) have led to a new demand for the implementation of global governance mechanisms in relation (...)