{"id":4136,"date":"2016-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T09:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.voelkerrechtsblog.org\/articles\/grab-me-if-you-can\/"},"modified":"2020-12-09T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T12:28:18","slug":"grab-me-if-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/grab-me-if-you-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Grab me if you can?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post opens our symposium on \u201cLand governance\u201d, which accompanies an international conference<\/a> at the Law and Society Institute<\/a> of Humboldt University Berlin. Lawyers and political scientists from Germany, India and Brazil will reflect on the global scramble for land in local contexts.<\/p>\n

Land as such is a rather localized phenomenon, but land governance matters in much wider political, economic, social and ecological contexts: Control over land has always been linked to political and economic order \u2013 from feudalism<\/a> through capitalist industrialization<\/a> to (neo)liberal globalization<\/a>. Property rights in land shape relations between government and society<\/a>, state and markets, parliaments and courts, the national and the international. They implicate all layers of law<\/a> \u2013 from local customary law through national constitutions to international human rights law and investment treaties like TTIP and CETA.<\/p>\n

Besides, land governance also affects the ways in which\u00a0housing and food<\/a> are accessed and distributed. It is closely linked to inequality and poverty – whether we look at gentrification and evictions in urban Europe and America<\/a>, at development-induced displacement in Asia<\/a>, or at smallholders in rural Africa who struggle against the forces of global land markets<\/a> \u2013 or \u201cland grabbing\u201d, as critics<\/a> say. As global prices for land rise, should anyone just grab it if they\u00a0can?<\/p>\n

More than ever, land governance also matters for the environment and biodiversity<\/a>. Land governance is natural resource governance. Ownership of forests is becoming a regulatory tool to save the global climate. And as climate policy seeks to save the forest, indigenous peoples<\/a> in many places face their third dispossession \u2013 after colonialism and industrialization this time in the name of green economy.<\/p>\n

In this symposium, we hope to capture some of these multi-disciplinary and multi-level aspects of land governance \u2013 and to discuss them with our readers and commentators.<\/p>\n

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Michael Riegner <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Cite as: Michael Riegner, \u201cGrab me if you can? The global scramble for land in local context\u201d, V\u00f6lkerrechtsblog,<\/em> 31 October 2016, doi: 10.17176\/20180522-185151.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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