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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 displacement had emerged following the financial, food and energy
crises of 2008-09. We wanted to understand what was going on and how best to respond.
The global debate around land deals has diminished in the last several years, but important
research and political questions remain.
- What happened to the hundreds of land grabs documented by researchers, non-governmental organizations, activist groups, news media, and aid agencies?
- What new configurations of land, labour and capital have emerged since?
- How has the rise of authoritarian, state-led populism and politics re-shaped the tensions between ‘foreignization’ and extraction?
25 research grants
This call invites applications for small grants to support research and writing around old and new
themes related to land grabbing, aiming to understand the contemporary dynamics of land and
resource ‘grabbing’.
Twenty-five grants of $3000 each are available to researchers based in the ‘Global South’ who have undertaken original empirical research and wish to write this up.
Full details of the LDPI, the call and how to apply can be found in the document below.
Application deadline - 31 May 2023
Full paper due date - 15 January 2024
Successful applicants will be informed by 30 June 2023 and full papers will be due by
15 January 2024.
Full papers can be co-authored with others including with researchers who are not from the
Global South. The aim is to publish the papers online in the LDPI Working Paper series and
share them at a major international event to be held in Colombia in March 2024, which will include researchers, activists and policymakers from across the world.
We hopefully can facilitate attendance of successful grant applicants at the event.
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