Invitation: RCSD Seminar on Responsible Large-Scale Agricultural Acquisitions (Wed.17 Jan.2018)

[RCSD Chiang Mai University]

Dear All,

Please be invited to join RCSD Seminar on 

"Responsible Large-Scale Agricultural Acquisitions"

SPEAKERS
Dr Jean-Christophe Diepart (Mekong Region Land Governance project): Responsible large-scale land acquisitions in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam

Professor Philip Hirsch (Chiang Mai University): Large-scale land acquisitions – a perspective on Thailand

Dr Shalmali Guttal (Focus in the Global South): Framing a relationship between investment and land tenure

Moderator: Daniel Hayward (Mekong Land Research Forum)

Date: Wednesday 17 January 2018

Time: 13.00-16.00 hrs

Venue: Meeting Room, 4th Floor of Operations Building, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University

Since the 1990s, a new wave of large-scale land acquisitions for agricultural investments has emerged world-wide and in particular in the Mekong region. This seminar aims to provide a historical overview of the dynamics through which these investments have emerged. A synthesis of data is offered for a present-day analysis, allowing for country comparison and regional synthesis. What have been the effects of land acquisitions, both in terms of spurring national economic growth, and impacts upon smallholder farming systems? What are appropriate frameworks with which to understand strategies of capital investment, and their relationship with land tenure? The seminar intends to explore the existing data on these themes and look for gaps for future research.

Best regards,

RCSD Team

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Regional Center for Social Science
and Sustainable Development (RCSD)
Faculty of Social Sciences
Chiang Mai University
Chiang Mai 50200 THAILAND
Tel: +66-0-5394-3595 to 6
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Email: rc...@cmu.ac.th
http://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th

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