This brief summarises a number of findings from the DEMETER project, focusing on the social, cultural, and economic outcomes of commercialisation and on the ways in which these affect the rights to food, land, decent work and social security. Adu Ankrah, Daniel, Anna Antwi, Peter Atupare, Marta Awo, Joanna Bourke Martignoni, Fred Dzanku, Promise Eweh,…
In her PhD thesis in International Relations/Political Science Saba Joshi studies the contemporary politics of land grabbing in Cambodia with a tripartite focus on gender, resistance and state formation. Drawing on fieldwork that she conducted between 2015 and 2019, Saba Joshi examines contestation against large-scale land acquisitions, gendered experiences of dispossession and resistance, and how…
Dr Saba Joshi, a member of DEMETER’s Cambodia team has published a new article in Third World Quarterly. The piece focuses on issues of hybrid governance and legal pluralism in order to better understand the potential and limitations of the use of ‘forum shopping’ by rural communities seeking redress in cases of land grabbing. The…
Kimsan Soy, Christophe Gironde, Alice Beban et Sokmao Chheang – members of the research team in Ratanakiri Following the quantitative household survey in Ratanakiri and Kampong Thom provinces that was carried out by our team last year we’re engaging in a series of policy dialogue and research validation events in the two provinces. Team…
Our annual meeting was held in July 2019 in Bangkok. This provided us with an opportunity to reflect on the progress of the research so far, to draw comparisons between our two case study countries and to consider the situation of other countries within the South East Asian region and to engage in outreach with…
Team members Christophe Gironde and Joanna Bourke Martignoni attended an academic meeting on the Future of Food Systems at FAO headquarters in Rome on 10-11 June 2019. They were able to present our DEMETER research and to recall the importance of continuing to integrate a right to food and feminist perspective within food policy-making in…
Date: 22 July 2019, 18:00-19:30 Venue: 6th floor, Kasem-uttayanin building (Rattasart Hok Sib Pee), Faculty of Political Science Chulalongkorn University Southeast Asia is going through accelerated agrarian transition due to a number of factors, including transnational land acquisitions, domestic investors, migrants, conservation efforts, and government policies. This affects rural livelihoods, impacting food security and social…
DEMETER team members Kristina Lanz and Elisabeth Prügl have published a new article in the Journal of Peasant Studies. The article examines the adoption of feminist ideas by neoliberal agricultural actors working through public-private partnerships and in agribusiness. Rhetorically committed to gender equality, these new development actors have reduced equality to a matter of numbers, seeking…
Gironde, C. and A. Torrico Ramirez. 2019. Dépossession foncière, transition agraire et capacité d’adaptation: Devenir des populations autochtones de Ratanakiri (Cambodge). Revue internationale des études du développement. 238(2): 291-322. DEMETER team members Christophe Gironde and Andres Torrico Ramirez recently published some of the results of their work in Northeastern Cambodia in the Revue internationale des…
Dr Joanna Bourke Martignoni, Gender Centre affiliate and coordinator of the DEMETER (Gender, land and the right to food) research project, participated as part of a panel in a side event on “Exploring the economic and social dimensions of the right to life” during the Human Rights Council. The purpose of the discussion was to…
