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Land Grabs & Food Security h t t p : / / a n t i c a p . w o r d p r e s s . c o m / 2 0 0 9 / 1 1 / 2 3 / a g r o - i m p e r i a l i s m /
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Lecture/workshop thing at GA Conference 15th April 2011 - #gaconf11
Transcript of Land Grabs
Land Grabs & Food Security
http://anticap.w
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perialism/
“land is not just a resource to be exploited, but a crucial
vehicle for the achievement of improved socio-economic,
biological, and physical environments”
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (1999)
Your presenters...
Alan ParkinsonSecondary Curriculum Development Leader
Geographical Association
John McLavertyYouth and Schools Coordinator, London & SE
Oxfam GB
Geographies of Food“Living Geography”
Imag
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http://slideshare.net/geoblogs
Context...2009: ManchesterControversial Issues: Resourcing the Food Crisishttp://geography.org.uk/cpdevents/onlinecpd/foodsecurity/
2010: DerbySecond Helpings: the food crisis one year onhttp://geography.org.uk/cpdevents/onlinecpd/geographyoffood/
‘Geography’ article...
Food as geopolitics...
http://farm
landgrab.org/8066
Land Grabs
CURRICULUM
PEDAGOGY
Curriculum MakingFood in the Curriculum
KS3
GCSE
‘A’ level
The Independent – 11th April
Guardian Podcasthttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/audio/2011/jan/28/guardian-focus-podcast-land-grabs
Jan 2011Libya in
Mali
John Vidal in Ethiopia’s Gambella regionGuardian video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/video/2011/mar/21/ethiopia-land-rush
Enquiry Questions
What are land grabs ? Are you eating food grown on land
that was grabbed ?Will land grabs become more
common in the future ?
Global Connections
£17
John McLavertyOXFAM GB
John’s slides here...
Land Grabs?
Large Scale Agricultural Investment?
?
English Enclosures
Loxley Chase, west of Sheffield
The law doth punish man or woman
That steals the goose from off the common
But lets the greater felon loose
That steals the common from the goose.
‘Land Grabs’ seem to be everywhere…
Imperial Expansion
‘Banana Republics’
21st Century Food
A New Age of Scarcity?
Land Grabs - What’s new?• Scale
A single farm in Ethiopia is 300,000 hectares – 75 miles across
Total land under contract globally – 2 x size of the UK
• Foods and biofuels
rather than cash crops
• State and parastatal investment
rather than private companies
Who’s grabbing?
The Economist, May 21 2009
Where’s getting grabbed?
The Economist, May 21st 2009
Grabbing – good or bad?
Who are the stakeholders? (on the ground/behind the scenes)
• winners? How?
• losers? How?
• make a judgement
Making ‘Land Grabs’ Fair
Re-read the case studies
Design a charter of rights or ethical guidelines• Protecting people • Protecting the environment• Getting a fair deal
Final thoughtAre land grabs really water grabs?
Learn More
www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p
www.globaldashboard.org
www.guardian.co.uk/global-development
Do more
Oxfam Water Week11 – 17 Julywww.oxfam.org.uk/waterweek
Resources on land grabsAutumn 2011www.oxfam.org.uk/education
“5 a day”
images
stories
Cook it…
Design a geographical recipe.With thank to Tony Cassidy for inspiration here
Ingredients.
• Fossil fuels•Deforestation•Cattle•Rice
Global Warming Recipe.
Cooking Instructions
1.Liberally burn fossil fuels from the industrial revolution to the present. Making sure none of the carbon is offset.2. At the same time, cut down significant numbers of trees and replace with pastoral land.3. Put significant numbers of cattle on the pastoral land, ensuring they are fed with high protein feed, allow them to pass huge volumes of methane.4. Make sure you are growing significant amounts of rice as a side to the main dish.5. Continue to cook for at least a hundred years and serve piping hot.
References http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/pdfs/LandGrab_final_web.pdf
- useful report on land grabsMy FOOD Flickr set
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