Land Grabs & Food Security Geographies

http://anticap.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/agro-imperialism/ Land Grabs & Food Security

“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 AssociationJohn McLavertyYouth and Schools Coordinator, London & SEOxfam GB

Geographies of Food“Living Geography” Image: Carl Warner http://slideshare.net/geoblogs

Context... 2009: Manchester Controversial Issues: Resourcing the Food Crisis http://geography.org.uk/cpdevents/onlinecpd/foodsecurity/

2010: Derby Second Helpings: the food crisis one year on http://geography.org.uk/cpdevents/onlinecpd/geographyoffood/

Land Grabs http://farmlandgrab.org/8066

Curriculum MakingFood in the CurriculumKS3GCSE‘A’ level

The Independent – 11th April

Guardian Podcasthttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/audio/2011/jan/28/guardian-focus-podcast-land-grabs Jan 2011 Libya 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 QuestionsWhat are land grabs ? Are you eating food grown on land that was grabbed ?Will land grabs become more common in the future ?

John McLavertyOXFAM GBJohn’s slides here...

Land Grabs? ? Large Scale Agricultural Investment?

English Enclosures 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. Loxley Chase, west of Sheffield

‘Land Grabs’ seem to be everywhere…

Imperial Expansion ‘Banana Republics’

21st Century Food A New Age of Scarcity?

Land Grabs - What’s new? ,[object Object],A single farm in Ethiopia is 300,000 hectares – 75 miles across Total land under contract globally – 2 x size of the UK ,[object Object], rather than cash crops ,[object Object], 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) ,[object Object]

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Final thought Are land grabs really water grabs?

Learn More www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p www.guardian.co.uk/global-development www.globaldashboard.org

Do more Oxfam Water Week 11 – 17 July www.oxfam.org.uk/waterweek Resources on land grabs Autumn 2011 www.oxfam.org.uk/education

Thankyou! John McLaverty Youth and Schools Campaigner 0207 802 9981 jmclaverty@oxfam.org.uk

Where are land grabs happening ?http://bighugelabs.com/map.php

Cook it… 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. Ingredients. ,[object Object]

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