SATURNINO (‘JUN’) M. BORRAS JR.
Professor of Agrarian Studies
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague
[email protected]
Version April 2015
SUMMARY
I got my PhD in Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
in The Hague on 27 September 2004, and worked as a researcher at the ISS until
December 2006. In January 2007, I was appointed Canada Research Chair (CRC) and
Associate Professor of International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University in
Halifax. I gave up my Chair after four years to rejoin ISS beginning January 2011 as
Associate Professor (and as Professor of Agrarian Studies beginning February 2015).
Below are the highlights of my accomplishments focusing on the period from January
2011 onwards, when I rejoined the ISS:
HIGHLIGHTS
February 2015 – present: Professor of Agrarian Studies, ISS
January 2011 – January 2015: ISS Associate Professor of Rural Development Studies
Program Convenor, 2012 – September 2014: Agrarian, Food & Environmental Studies
(AFES) Major, ISS
Member: Research Degrees Committee (RDC), ISS (2013 – present)
Previously:
January 2007 – December 2010: Canada Research Chair in International Development
Studies at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada (CRC Tier 2 –
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2004-2006, Academic researcher, ISS
Other Positions:
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Peasant Studies (January 2009 – present)
Adjunct Professor, College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD), China
Agricultural University, Beijing (September 2009 – present)
Fellow, Transnational Institute (TNI), Amsterdam, (2007 – present)
Fellow, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy, California (2008 –
present)
Coordinator, Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS), www.iss.nl/icas
Co-Coordinator, Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI), www.iss.nl/ldpi
Co-Coordinator, BRICS Initiatives for Critical Agrarian Studies (BICAS),
www.iss.nl/bicas
Editorial Board member:
Journal of Agrarian Change (from January 2008 - present)
Alternatives Sud
Canadian Journal of Development Studies (from October 2014 - present)
He is a co-editor of the Routledge-ISS Book Series on Rural Livelihoods. He is also a coeditor of the ICAS Book Series in ‘Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies’ the English
edition of which is published by the Canada-based Fernwood Publishing; it is available in
Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Bahasa and Thai editions to date, and will be available in
other language editions. He is the editor of Routledge’s Critical Agrarian Studies book
series.
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Research interests
He works in the broad field of agrarian studies. His thematic areas of work are grounded
on agrarian political economy and political sociology, and include: land politics and
policies, (trans)national agrarian movements, NGOs and civil society, food policies and
politics, forestry, overseas development aid, agricultural development and trade, rural
livelihoods, state-society interactions in rural development, rural conflict and
development, plantation workers, biofuels and global land grabbing, ‘land-energy-food
sovereignty’ – internationally, but with special regional interests on Southeast Asia,
China, Southern Africa, and Southern America, and on international institutional ‘spaces’
of state-society interactions.
He is an award-winning author who has authored or (co-)edited several, (co-)guest edited
several journal special issues. He has published several articles in academic journals,
including Development and Change, Review of International Political Economy,
Dialectical Anthropology, Progress in Development Studies, Journal of Development
Studies, Critical Asian Studies, Journal of International Development, Third World
Quarterly, European Journal of Development Research, Review of African Political
Economy, Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, Peace Review,
Globalizations, Journal of Agrarian Change and Journal of Peasant Studies. He has also
published several book chapters. Several of his works have been translated to Spanish,
Portuguese, French, German, Dutch, Tagalog and Bahasa. He won the prestigious
National Book Award in the Philippines in 2009 in the category of social sciences.
He has recently completed a book manuscript on transnational agrarian movements (with
Marc Edelman), for release in early spring of 2016: Political dynamics of transnational
agrarian movements, Halifax: Fernwood.
He is currently working on a book manuscript on food sovereignty, together with Martha
Robbins and Christina Schiavoni.
He is currently undertaking research on: (i) ‘flex crops’ and biofuels and their impact on
food production, land use and land property relations, (ii) transnational agrarian
movements and their various campaigns, (iii) various national land reforms, (iv) global
land grabbing and its impact on food production and existing agrarian structures, (v) the
relationship between land, energy and food sovereignty; (vi) land conflicts, (vii) boom
crops inside China and in Southeast Asia, and (viii) BRICS and the global agrarian
transformations.
The emphasis of his work is on bridging academic research, development policy practice
and civil society actions. This has been influenced by his professional background: He
has been deeply involved in rural social movements since the early 1980s. He was part of
the core organizing team that established the international peasant and farmer’s
movement La Via Campesina and was a member of its International Coordinating
Commission from 1993 to 1996. In various capacities (consultancy and political
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solidarity work), he has collaborated with several international, European, US and
Canadian nongovernmental development agencies and foundations, and has assisted
organizations and social movements of rural poor in various countries in the global
South. He has helped establish a global network of academics, development policy
experts and social movement activists, the Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS,
www.iss.nl/icas), and helps coordinate its work. ICAS has in turn spearheaded a number
of initiatives, including a book series in critical agrarian studies in multiple languages, as
well as a global network of research institutes and researchers carrying out studies on
global land-grabbing, the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI, www.iss.nl/ldpi), and
BRICS Initiatives for Critical Agrarian Studies (BICAS, www.iss.nl/bicas).
He has consulted with the FAO, UNDP-Bureau of Development Policy, UNDP-Oslo
Governance Centre, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), FAO, and
UNESCO. He is one of the chapter (on land) lead authors of UNEP’s Global
Environmental Outlook (GEO) 5 Report (released in 2012). He was one of the five
experts put together by the UN FAO through its High-Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) on
the food crisis that prepared the HLPE global report on land grabbing (July 2011). He
took the lead in a team of scholars in preparing a synthesis/reflection paper for FAO on
land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean based on 17 studies on land grabs in
17 countries in the region spearheaded by FAO (concluded in November 2011).
He has taught at the graduate level in the Netherlands, Canada, Mexico, China,
Switzerland, and Portugal on the politics of agrarian transformation.
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RESEARCH
ONGOING AND RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS AND GRANTS
Project/Period
Climate
change
mitigation policies,
land grabbing and
conflict in fragile
states:
understanding
intersections,
exploring
transformations in
Myanmar
and
Cambodia
2014-2018
Chinese extractive
investments and its
implications
for
agrarian
transformation
in
Southeast Asia
2013-2015
Competing
sovereignties in the
political construction
of food sovereignty;
Research
Talent
Grant (for Christina
Schiavoni);
2014-2017
FAO-ISS
collaborative work
on
Tenure
Guidelines in Latin
America and the
Caribbean,
20152016
ICAS collaborative
work, 2014-2016
Gulf States and
land grabbing in
Indonesia and the
Philippines (20112015)
Fund source
Netherlands
Organization
for
Scientific Research
(NWO),
WOTRO
Science for Global
Development
&
DFID
Role
Amount
Project Coordinator £ 500,000
and
Principal
Investigator (PI)
Ford
Foundation Project Holder and US$200,000
Beijing Office
Coordinator
NWO
Applicant
and € 171,500
recipient
of
the
NWO
Research
Talent Grant for
Christina Schiavoni
FAO
Project Coordinator
$40,000
ICCO
Project coordinator
€20,000
NWO-WOTRO
Co-Investigator/Co- € 650,000
Integrated Research Team leader (coProgram
supervisor for 3
PhD students and 1
postdoc)
with
colleagues
(Dr.
Rutten
&
Dr.
Nooteboom)
from
University
of
5
Amsterdam and ISS
(Prof. dr. White)
European
n Co-applicant
and Eur 972,884
Commission (EC), key
consortium
Development
partner.
Lead
Education in Europe applicant is Heinrich
Boll Stiftung, Berlin
Teaching EcoFair
Trade:
an
innovative approach
to integrate the
right-to-food in to
university lectures
in Europe (20122016)
Research on global Ford
Foundation, Through Land Deal US$120,000
land
grabbing Nairobi Office
Politics
Initiative
(2011-2013)
(LDPI),
together
with W. Wolford, I.
Scoones, R. Hall
and B. White
Co-applicant
and C$500,000
Action Research on IDRC Canada
co-coordinator (with
FAO’s Land, Water
Ruth
Hall
of
and Forest Tenure
PLAAS)
of
the
Guidelines (TGs),
scientific output of
2015-2018:
the 4-year research;
Uganda,
Mali,
fund
managed
Nigeria and South
directly by FIAN
Africa,
with
Foodfirst
Information & Sction
Network (FIAN) and
TNI as consortium
leaders
RESEARCH ALLIANCES AND NETWORKS (including PhD/post-doc grants)
Research
Institution/scholar, funding
UNRISD & Geneva
Graduate Institute
(Project application is in the
final round of application to
Swiss Development
Cooperation, SDC)
PROCIT: Fragmented
Sovereignty: Property and
Citizenship in Developing
Societies. (2012-2015), led
by Christian Lund; Danish
Theme of the proposal
Role
Global land grabbing and Project Advisory Board
gender
implications:
lessons from Ghana and
Cambodia
Research on citizenship Project Advisory
and struggles around land, member
including
REDD+
in
countries
that
include
Indonesia,
Laos,
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Board
Social Science Research
Philippines, Zimbabwe
Council
LANDac
IS-Academie Land governance, broadly Advisory Board member
(2010 – 2015), led by Prof. cast, global
Dr.
Annelies
Zoomers,
funded by NWO-WOTRO
OTHER SUCCESSFUL GRANT APPLICATIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL PhD AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
Project, granting institution
Dr Hu Zhen of China
Agricultural
University;
China Scholarship Council
(CSC) post-doc one year
grant, 2014-2015
Dr.
Sergio
Sauer
of
University
of
Brasilia;
CAPES post-doc one year
grant; 2014-2015
Dr.
Liu
Juan,
China
Agricultural
University
grant, 2013-2014
Dr. Carol Hunsberger’s 2year post-doctoral research
(2012-2014), funded by
SSHRC Canada
Dr. Wang Chunyu China
Scholarship Council (CSC)
post-doctoral
research
(2011-2012)
Liu Kun (Peking University)
doctoral research (20112012), China Scholarship
Council (CSC)
Pierre
Merlet
4-year
doctoral research grant,
VLIR-UOS
(Belgian
research council), 20122015, University of Antwerp
Boris Verbrugge, University
of Ghent, 4-year doctoral
research grant, VLIR-UOS,
2012-15.
Ben
McKay,
Canadian
SSHRC 4-year PhD grant,
2013-2017
Xu
Yunan,
China
Scholarship Council (CSC)
in collaboration of Erasmus
Theme/title of the project
Role in the project
Land property regimes and Co-applicant and
land conflicts and law supervisor
making in China
Political economy of land in Co-applicant and
Brazil and the rise of supervisor/research
BRICS
collaborator
The rise of BRICS and
implications for agrarian
transformation
Global land use change,
biofuels
Co-applicant and
supervisor
Co-applicant/post-doc
supervisor and research
collaborator
BRICS and land grabbing Co-applicant,
and implications for global supervisor and
agrarian transformation
collaborator
post-doc
research
History of land reform in the Doctoral supervisor and
Philippines
research collaborator, coapplicant
Agrarian transformation and Doctoral co-supervisor and
resource
conflict
in research collaborator (with
Nicaragua
Johan Bastaiansen)
Small scale mining and Doctoral co-supervisor (with
resource
conflict
in Koen Vlassenroot)
Mindanao, Philippines
The rise of Brazilian capital Doctoral co-supervisor
and agrarian transformation
in Bolivia
Chinese investments in Principal applicant for the
Southeast Asia
CSC-EUR joint programme,
with full fellowship from
7
University,
4-year
scholarship grant, 20132017
China Scholarship Council The politics of industrial
(CSC) 4-year PhD full tree plantation in southern
fellowship grant application China by foreign companies
for Zhang Jin (China
Agricultural
University),
2014-2018
CSC-Beijing; Supervisor for
the PhD project
Co-applicant for the CSC
grant; main PhD supervisor
PUBLICATIONS
Selected books, Monographs
Marc Edelman and Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Political Dynamics of Transnational
Agrarian Movements. Halifax: Fernwood. Spring 2016 release.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (June 2008). Competing Views and Strategies on Agrarian Reform –
volume 1: International Perspective. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University
Press/Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Winner, National Book Award (2009,
Philippines)
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (June 2008). Competing Views and Strategies on Agrarian Reform –
volume 2: Philippine Perspective. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press/Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press. Winner, National Book Award (2009, Philippines)
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2007). Pro-Poor Land Reform: A Critique. Ottawa: University of
Ottawa Press.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2004). Rethinking redistributive land reform: land and power in
the Philippines. Maastricht: Shaker; The Hague, ISS.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (1999). The Bibingka Strategy in Land Reform Implementation:
Autonomous Rural Social Movements and State Reformists in the Philippines. Manila:
Institute for Popular Democracy. (Translated to and published in Tagalog in 2000).
Selected books, edited volumes
Marc Edelman, Carlos Oya and Saturnino M. Borras Jr., editors. 2014. Global land grabs:
history, theory and method. London: Routledge. 242 pp. ISBN: 978-1-13-883053-0.
Marc Edelman, James C. Scott, Baviskar, Amita, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Eric HoltGimenez, Tony Weis, and Wendy Wolford, editors, (in press, for release early 2015).
Critical Perspectives on Food sovereignty. London: Routledge.
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Edelman, Marc, Carlos Oya, and Saturnino M. Borras Jr., editors, (in press, for release in
late 2014). Global land grabs. London: Routledge.
Wolford, Wendy, Ruth Hall, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ian Scoones and Ben White, eds.
(2013). Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land. Wiley
Blackwell. ISBN-10: 1118688260, 288 pages.
Margulis, Matias, Nora McKeon and Saturnino M. Borras Jr. eds. (2013). Land grabbing
and global governance. London: Routledge. ISBN-10: 0415628342, 232 pages.
White, Ben, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Wendy Wolford, eds.
(2013) The political economy of contemporary corporate land deals. London: Routledge.
ISBN: ISBN-10: 0415823749, 512 pages
Franco, Jennifer and Saturnino M. Borras Jr., eds. (2013). Land grabbing, land
concentration and people’s resistance in Europe. Amsterdam: Transnational Institute.
ISBN 9789491356025
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Philip McMichael and Ian Scoones, eds. (2011). Biofuels and
Agrarian Change. London: Routledge.
Borras, Saturnino Jr., editor (2009). Critical Perspectives in Rural Development Studies.
London: Routledge.
Borras, Saturnino Jr, Marc Edelman and Cristobal Kay, editors, (2008). Transnational
Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
(Translated to and published in Bahasa in 2010: Gerakan-Gerakan Agraria
Transnasional. Jakarta: SAINS/KARSA.)
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Cristobal Kay and Edward Lahiff, editors (2008). Market-Led
Agrarian Reform: Critical Reflections on Neoliberal Land Policies and the Rural Poor.
London: Routledge.
Akram Lodhi, Haroon, Saturnino Borras Jr., and Cristobal Kay, editors (2007). Land,
Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization. London: Routledge.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco (2005). On Just Grounds: Struggling for
Agrarian Justice and Citizenship Rights in the Rural Philippines. Manila: Institute for
Popular Democracy; Amsterdam: Transnational Institute.
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Guest editorship, journal special issues
Marc Edelman, James C. Scott, Baviskar, Amita, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Eric HoltGimenez, Tony Weis, and Wendy Wolford, guest editors, 2014. Critical Perspectives on
Food sovereignty. Journal of Peasant Studies, 41(5) special issue.
Edelman, Marc, Carlos Oya and Saturnino M. Borras Jr., eds. (2013). Global land grabs.
Third World Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 9.
Wolford, Wendy, Ruth Hall, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ian Scoones and Ben White, eds.
(2013). Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land.
Development and Change, vol. 44, no. 2.
Margulis, Matias, Nora McKeon and Saturnino M. Borras Jr. eds. (2013). Land grabbing
and global governance. Globalizations, vol.10, no. 1.
Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Sergio Gomez, Cristobal Kay and John Wilkinson, eds (2012).
Land grabbing in Latin America. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, vol. 33, no.
4.
Borras, Saturnino Jr., guest editor (2009). Critical Perspectives in Agrarian Change and
Peasant Studies. Journal of Peasant Studies, 36(1), special issue.
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Marc Edelman and Cristobal Kay, guest editors (April 2008).
‘Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization,’ Journal of Agrarian
Change special double issue, volume 8, nos. 2 and 3.
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Cristobal Kay and Edward Lahiff, guest editors (December 2007).
‘Market-Led Agrarian Reform: Contestations and Trajectories,’ Third World Quarterly,
volume 28, no. 8 (December 2008).
Borras, Saturnino Jr and Eric Ross, guest editors (2007). Land Rights and Violent
Conflicts, Peace Review, special issue, 19(1).
Selected articles
Ruth Hall, M. Edelman, S. M. Borras, I. Scoones, B. White and W. Wolford. 2015.
Resistance, acquiescence or incorporation: Land grabbing and political reactions ‘from
below’. Journal of Peasant Studies, 42(3).
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Jennifer C. Franco and Sofia Monsalve Suarez. 2015. Land and
food sovereignty. Third World Quarterly. 10.1080/01436597.2015.1029225
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Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Todd Holmes, Eric Holt-Giménez and
Martha Jane Robbins. Food sovereignty: convergence and contradictions, condition and
challenges. Third World Quarterly, 34(4).
Marc Edelman, Tony Weis, Baviskar, Amita, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Deniz Kandiyoti,
Eric Holt-Gimenez, and Wendy Wolford, editors, (2014). Critical perspectives on food
sovereignty, Journal of Peasant Studies, 41(6): 911-931.
Edelman, Marc, Carlos Oya and Saturnino M. Borras Jr. (2013). Global Land Grabs:
historical processes, theoretical and methodological implications and current trajectories,
Third World Quarterly, 34(9): 1517-1531.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco (2013). Global Land Grabbing and Political
Reactions ‘From Below’, Third World Quarterly, 34(9): 1723-1747.
Wolford, Wendy, Ruth Hall, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ian Scoones and Ben White (2013)
Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land, Development
and Change, 44(2): 189-210.
Margulis, Matias, Nora McKeon and Saturnino M. Borras Jr., (2013). Land Grabbing and
Global Governance: Critical Perspectives, Globalizations 10(1): 1-23.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. Jennifer Franco and Wang Chunyu (2013). The Challenge of Global
Governance of Land Grabbing: Changing International Agricultural Context and
Competing Political Views and Strategies, Globalizations 10(1): 161-179.
Ian Scoones, Ruth Hall, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ben White and Wendy Wolford (2013).
The politics of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush, Journal
of Peasant Studies 40(3): 469-483.
Ian Scoones, Ruth Hall, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ben White and Wendy Wolford (2013).
The politics of evidence: A response to Rulli and D'Odorico, Journal of Peasant Studies
40(5).
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Cristobal Kay, Sergio Gomez and John Wilkinson (December
2012). Seven characteristics of land grabbing in Latin America. Canadian Journal of
Development Studies, 33(4): 2-16.
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Jennifer Franco, Cristobal Kay, Sergio Gomez and Max Spoor
(2012). Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean. Journal of Peasant Studies,
39(304).
White, Ben, Borras, Saturnino Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, and Wendy Wolford (2012).
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals. Journal of Peasant
Studies, 39(3-4).
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Borras, Saturnino Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Ben White and Wendy Wolford
(forthcoming, 2013). Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for
Land: editors’ introduction. Development and Change special issue on ‘Land grabs and
the role of the state’.
Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Cristóbal Kay, Sergio Gómez y John Wilkinson. 2013.
Acaparamiento de tierras y acumulación capitalista: aspectos clave en América Latina.
Revista Interdisciplinaria de Estudios Agrarios, Nº 38, 1er semestre de 2013, pp. 75-104.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. and Jennifer Franco (2012). Global land grabbing and trajectories of
agrarian change: a preliminary analysis. Journal of Agrarian Change, 12(1), January
2012.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. Jennifer C. Franco, Cristobal Kay and Max Spoor (2011). ‘Land
grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean viewed from broader international
perspectives’. Santiago, Chile: FAO.
Borras, Saturnino Jr., David Fig and Sofia Monsalve (2011). The politics of mega landwater deals insights from the ProCana agrofuel case, Mozambique. Review of African
Political Economy, 38(128), June 2011, pp. 215-234.
Vellema, Sietze, Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Francisco Lara Jr. (2011). The agrarian
roots of contemporary violent conflict in Mindanao, Southern Philippines. Journal of
Agrarian Change, July 2011, 11(3).
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Ben White and Wendy Wolford (2011).
Towards a better understanding of global land grabbing: an editorial introduction (to JPS
Forum on Global Land Grabbing special section), Journal of Peasant Studies, 38(2): 112.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. 2010. The Politics of Transnational Agrarian Movements.
Development and Change, 41(5): 771-803.
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Philip McMichael and Ian Scoones (2010). ‘The Politics of
Biofuels and Agrarian Change: an introduction’. Journal of Peasant Studies special issue
on ‘Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change’, 37(4), October 2010.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco (2010). ‘From threat to opportunity?:
Problems with the idea of a ‘code of conduct’ for land grabbing’. Yale Human Rights and
Development Law Journal, vol. 13, no. 1.
Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Jennifer C. Franco (2010). Codes de bonne conduite: une réponse
à l’accaparement des terres ? Alternatives Sud, 16(1).
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Borras, Saturnino Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco (2010). ‘Contemporary Discourses in and
Contestations around Pro-Poor Land Policies and Land Governance. Journal of Agrarian
Change 10(1).
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2009). ‘Critical Perspectives in Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies:
Changes, Continuities and Challenges.’ Journal of Peasant Studies, 36(1), pp. 5-31.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco (April 2009). ‘Transnational Agrarian
Movements Campaigning for Land and Citizenship Rights’. IDS Working Paper No. 323
(April 2009), Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2008). ‘Re-examining the Agrarian Movement-NGO Solidarity
Relations Discourse.’ Dialectical Anthropology, 2008(32): 203-209.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (April 2008). La Via Campesina and its Global Campaign for
Agrarian Reform. Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 8, nos. 2 and 3.
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Marc Edelman, and Cristobal Kay (April 2008). Transnational
Agrarian Movements: Origins and Politics, Campaigns and Impact. Journal of Agrarian
Change, vol. 8, nos. 2 and 3.
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Cristobal Kay and Edward Lahiff (2007). Market-Led Agrarian
Reform: Policies, Performance and Prospects. Third World Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 8.
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Danilo Carranza and Jennifer Franco (2007). Anti-Poverty or AntiPoor? World Bank’s Experiment with Market-Led Agrarian Reform in the Philippines.
Third World Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 8.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2007). ‘“Free Market,” Export-led Development Strategy and its
Impact on Rural Livelihoods, Poverty and Inequality: The Philippine Experience seen from
a Southeast Asian Perspective,’ Review of International Political Economy, volume 14 (1).
Borras, Saturnino Jr and Jennifer Franco (2007). ‘Struggles over Access to and Control
over Land Resources and Violence in the Philippine Countryside,’ Peace Review – A
Journal of Social Justice, 19(1).
Borras Saturnino Jr. and Eric Ross (2007). ‘Land Rights and Violent Conflicts’, Peace
Review – A Journal of Social Justice, 19(1).
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2006). ‘The Philippine Land Reform in Comparative Perspective:
Conceptual and Methodological Implications’, Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 6, no.1.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2006). ‘Redistributive Land Reform in Public (Forest) Lands?
Rethinking Theory and Practice with Evidence from the Philippines,’ Progress in
Development Studies 6(2).
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Borras, Saturnino Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco (2005). ‘Struggles for Land and Livelihood:
Redistributive Reform in Philippine Agribusiness Plantations,’ Critical Asian Studies, Vol.
37, No. 3, pp. 331-361.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2005). ‘Can Redistributive Reform be Achieved via Market-Based
Land Transfer Schemes?: Evidence and Lessons from the Philippines,’ Journal of
Development Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 90-134.
Gutierrez, Eric and Saturnino M. Borras Jr. (2004) ‘The Moro Conflict: Landlessness and
Misdirected State Policies’, East-West Center – Washington, Policy Studies Series 8,
pp. 1-89 (for PDF version, see www.eastwestcenterwashington.org).
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (October 2004). ‘La Via Campesina: an Evolving Transnational
Social Movement’, TNI Briefing Paper Series 2004/6, 30pp. Amsterdam: Transnational
Institute.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (November 2004). La Via Campesina: Un Movimiento en
Movimiento, Fundacion de Investigaciones Marxistas (FIM): Barcelona, Spain;
Transnacional Institute (TNI): Ámsterdam, pp. 36.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2003). ‘Inclusion-Exclusion in Public Policies and Policy
Analyses: The Case of Philippine Land Reform, 1972-2002,’ Journal of International
Development, 15(8): 1049-1065.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2003). ‘Questioning Market-Led Agrarian Reform: Experiences
from Brazil, Colombia and South Africa,’ Journal of Agrarian Change, 3(3): 367-394.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2003). ‘Questioning the Pro-Market Critique of State-Led Agrarian
Reforms,’ European Journal of Development Research, 15(2): 105-128.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2002). ‘Towards a Better Understanding of the Market-led
Agrarian Reform in Theory and Practice: Focusing on the Brazilian Case,’ Land Reform,
Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 2002(1): 33-50.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2002). ‘La Reforme Agraire Assistee par le Marche: Les Cas du
Bresil, de L’Afrique du Sud et de la Colombie et Leurs Implications pour les
Philippines,’ Alternatives Sud, IX(2): 119-184.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2002). ‘Die Sandwich-Strategie: Bodenreform auf den Philippinen
– mit Deutscher Unterstutzung,’ in E + Z Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit, 43(11):
312-315. Frankfurt: Deutsche Stiftung fur Internationale Entwicklung (DSE).
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2002). ‘Problems and Prospects of Redistributive Land Reform in
Mindanao, 1972-2002,’ Mindanao Focus Journal, 2002(1): 1-45. Davao: Alternate
Forum for Research in Mindanao (AFRIM).
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Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2001). ‘State-Society Relations in Land Reform Implementation in
the Philippines,’ Development and Change, 32(3): 545-575.
Refereed Book chapters
Marc Edelman, Carlos Oya and Saturnino M. Borras Jr. historical processes, theoretical
and methodological implications and current trajectories, pp. 1-21, in M. Edelman, C.
Oya and S. M. Borras Jr., editors. 2014. Global land grabs: history, theory and method.
London: Routledge.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. and Jennifer Franco. 2014. Food, Justice and Land, in R. Herring,
ed. Oxford Handbook on Food, Politics and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
0195397770.
Hunsberger, Carol, SM Borras Jr, JC Franco, W Chunyu (2014). Actors, Agencies and
Interactions, pp. 201-216, in K. Seto and A. Reenberg, eds. Rethinking Global Land Use
in an Urban Era. Boston: MIT Press. ISBN-10: 0262026902
Borras, Saturnino and Jennifer Franco (2014). From Threat to Opportunity? Problems
with Codes of Conduct for Land Grabbing, pp. 147-162. In P. Claeys et al. eds.
Rethinking Food Systems. Netherlands: Springer.
White, Ben, Saturnino Borras Jr. and Ruth Hall. 2014. ‘Land Reform’, in B. Currie-Alder
et al., ed. International Development Ideas, Experience, and Prospects. Oxford. Oxford
University Press.
White, Ben, Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Ruth Hall. 2014. Land reform, in V. Desai and
R. Potter eds. 2014. The companion to development studies, Third Edition. London:
Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-44-416724-5
Margulis, Matias, Nora McKeon and Saturnino M. Borras Jr., (2013). Land Grabbing and
Global Governance: Critical Perspectives, pp. 1-23, in Margulis et al., eds. Land
Grabbing and Global Governance: Critical Perspectives. London: Routledge.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. Jennifer Franco and Wang Chunyu (2013). The Challenge of Global
Governance of Land Grabbing: Changing International Agricultural Context and
Competing Political Views and Strategies, pp. 161-179, in. Margulis, et al., eds. Land
Grabbing and Global Governance: Critical Perspectives. London: Routledge.
Wolford, Wendy, Ruth Hall, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ian Scoones and Ben White (2013)
Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land, in Wolford et
al., eds. Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land. Wiley
Blackwell.
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Borras, Saturnino Jr., Jennifer Franco, Cristobal Kay, Sergio Gomez and Max Spoor
(2013). Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean, in White et al., eds. The new
enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals. London: Routledge.
White, Ben, Borras, Saturnino Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, and Wendy Wolford (2013).
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals, in White et al., eds. The
new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals. London: Routledge.
Borras, Saturnino and Jennifer Franco (2013). From Threat to Opportunity? Problems
with Codes of Conduct for Land Grabbing, in N. Lambek, P. Claeys, and A. Wong, eds.
Rethinking Food Systems: structural challenges, new strategies and the law. Springer.
ISBN-10: 9400777779
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2013). Foreword, 7pp., in Oliver Pye and Jayati Bhattacharya, eds.
The Palm Oil Controversy in Southeast Asia: A Transnational Perspective. Singapore:
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. ISBN-10: 9814311448
Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco (2013). Land
concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe: an overview, pp. 6-30, in
J. Franco and S. Borras eds. Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in
Europe. Amsterdam: TNI. ISBN 9789491356025
Borras, Saturnino, Jennfer Franco, Sergio Gomez, Cristobal Kay and Max Spoor (2013).
El acaparamiento de tierras en América Latina y el Caribe visto desde una perspectiva
internacional más amplia, pp. 15-68, in S. Gomez, ed. Reflexiones sobre la concentracion
y extranjerizacion de la tierra en America Latina y el Caribe. Santiago: Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO). ISBN: 978-92-5-307364-1
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2011) ‘Contemporary land policies’, in H. Veltmeyer, eds. Critical
Development Studies: Tools for Change. London: Pluto.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2011). ‘La Via Campesina: Transnational Agrarian Movements’, in
Barry Solomon et al, editors. ‘Sage Encyclopedia of Geography’. CA: Sage. (note: 4,000
words contribution)
Borras, Saturnino Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco (2010). ‘Transnational Agrarian Movements
Campaigning for Land and Citizenship Rights’, in John Gaventa and Rajesh Tandon, eds.
Globalizing citizens the new dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. London: Zed Books.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco (2010). ‘Redistributing land in the
Philippines: Social movements and State reformers’, in John Gaventa and Rosemary
McGee, eds. Citizen Action and National Policy Making Change Happen. London: Zed.
Borras, Saturnino Jr and Jennifer C. Franco (2010). ‘Food Sovereignty and Land Reform:
Exploring Tensions and Synergies’, in H. Wittman, A. Desmarais and N. Wiebe, editors.
Food Sovereignty. Halifax: Fernwood.
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Jennifer C. Franco and Saturnino M. Borras Jr. (2009). Paradigm shift: The ‘September
Thesis’ and rebirth of the ‘Open’ peasant mass movement in the era of neoliberal
globalization in the Philippines’, in D. Caouette and S. Turner, eds. Agrarian Angst and
Rural Resistance in Contemporary Southeast Asia. London: Routledge.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (June 2009). ‘Land Redistribution in the Philippines’, in
Binswanger-Mkhize Hans P., Camille Bourguignon and Rogier van den Brink (eds).
2009. Agricultural land redistribution: toward a common vision.? Washington DC:
World Bank, The World Bank, Agriculture and Rural Development Series.
Haroon Akram Lodhi, Cristóbal Kay and Saturnino M. Borras Jr. (2009). The political
economy of land and the agrarian question in an era of neoliberal globalization, in H.
Akram Lodhi and C. Kay, eds. Peasants and Globalization: Political economy, rural
transformation and the agrarian question. London: Routledge.
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Cristobal Kay and Edward Lahiff (April 2008). ‘Market-Led
Agrarian Reform: Policies, Performance and Prospects’, in S. Borras, C. Kay and E.
Lahiff, editors, Market-Led Agrarian Reform: Critical Insights on Neoliberal Land
Policies and the Rural Poor. London: Routledge.
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Danilo Carranza and Jennifer Franco (April 2008). ‘Anti-Poverty or
Anti-Poor? World Bank’s Experiment with Market-Led Agrarian Reform in the
Philippines’, in S. Borras, C. Kay and E. Lahiff, editors, Market-Led Agrarian Reform:
Critical Insights on Neoliberal Land Policies and the Rural Poor. London: Routledge.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2006). ‘The Underlying Assumptions, Theory, and Practice of
Neoliberal Land Policies,’ in P. Rosset, R. Patel and M. Courville (eds), Promised Land:
Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform. Oakland: Food First Books.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2006). ‘É possível implementar a reforma redistributiva através de
esquemas de transferência voluntária de terra com base no mercado? Evidências e lições
das Filipinas,’ in S. Sauer and J. M. Mendes Pereira, eds. Capturando a terra: Banco
Mundial, políticas neoliberais e reforma agrária de mercado, pp. 131-167. São Paolo:
Editora Expressão Popular.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2006). ‘Integración regional Sureste Asiático y competición y pobreza
persistente e inigualdad en las Filipinas: Una perspectiva desde el paisaje,’ Sean Golden y
Max Spoor, eds., Regionalismo y Desarrollo. Barcelona: CIDOB.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2005). Markets, Land Redistribution and Rural Social Movements
in the Philippines, in K. Ghimire, ed., Civil Society and the Market Question: Dynamics
of Rural Development and Popular Mobilization. London: Palgrave Macmillan; Geneva:
UNRISD.
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Borras, Saturnino Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco (2006). ‘Perubahan Pola-Pola Mobilisasi Petani
untuk Tanah dan Demokrasi di Filipina’, in N. Fauzi, ed., Gerakan-gerakan Rakyat Dunia
Ketiga. Yogyakarta: Resist Book (in Bahasa).
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2001). Agrarian Reform in the Philippines: Relatively Vibrant Land
Redistribution Amidst Less-Than-Dynamic Agricultural Transformation, in H. Morales Jr.
and J. Putzel (eds.), Power in the Village: Agrarian Reform, Rural Politics, Institutional
Change and Globalization, pp. 245-322. Manila: University of the Philippines Press.
Refereed major reports
Borras, Saturnino Jr. 2012. ‘Global land grabbing: some critical reflections’, pp. 16-18, in
La Via Campesina. 2012. La Via Campesina Notebook No. 3: International Conference
of Peasant and Farmers: Sop Land Grabbing! Jakarta: La Via Campesina, 26 pp. April
2012.
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Jennifer C. Franco, Cristobal Kay and Max Spoor (2011). Land
grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean viewed from broader international
perspectives.’ Santiago, Chile: FAO., 53pp.
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Jennifer C. Franco, Cristobal Kay and Max Spoor (2011). El
acaparamiento de tierras en América Latina y el Caribe visto desde una perspectiva
internacional más amplia. Santiago, Chile: FAO, pp. 65.
Toulmin, Camilla, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Prem Bindraban, Esther Mwangi and Sergio
Sauer (2011). Land tenure and international investments in agriculture. A report by the
FAO High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition. Rome: FAO.
Workshop/Conference/Working Papers
Borras, Saturnino Jr., Jennifer C. Franco, Ryan Isakson, Les Levidow, and Pietje Vervest.
Towards an initial understanding of the politics of flex crops and commodities:
implications for research and policy advocacy. Think Piece Series on Flex Crops and
Commodities No. 1. Amsterdam: Transnational Institute (TNI), 2014.
Borras, Saturnino Jr and Jennifer C. Franco (2011). Land, conflict and the challenge of
pro-poor peace-building. FriEnt: Working Group on Peace and Development, Bonn,
Germany: BMZ.
Borras, Saturnino Jr and Jennifer Franco (2011). ‘Political Dynamics of Land Grabbing
in Southeast Asia: Understanding Europe’s Role’. Amsterdam: Transnational Institute
(TNI) Discussion Paper (January 2011).
Borras, Saturnino Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco (2010). Towards a Broader View of the
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Politics of Global Land Grab: Rethinking Land Issues, Reframing Resistance. ICAS
Working Paper Series 001, co-published by the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) and
the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam.
Borras, Saturnino Jr and Jennifer C. Franco (2010). Vers une perspective plus élargie de
la politique de l’accaparement mondial des terres: repenser aux questions foncières,
encadrer à nouveau la résistance. ICAS Working Paper Series 001, co-published by the
Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco (2010). La política del acaparamiento
mundial de tierras Replanteando las cuestiones de tierras, redefiniendo la resistencia.
ICAS Working Paper Series 001, co-published by the Land Deal Politics Initiative
(LDPI) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco (2009). ‘The Politics of (Trans)national Land
Deals: Competing Views, Strategies and Alternatives.’ Paper prepared for and discussed
at the Agrarian Studies Colloquium, Yale University, 30 October 2009.
http://www.yale.edu/agrarianstudies/real/colloq2.html#Fall
Other Refereed papers
Borras, Saturnino and Terry McKinley (2006). ‘The Unresolved Land Reform Debate:
Beyond the State-Led and Market-Led Models’, IPC Policy Brief No. 2, Brasilia:
(UNDP’s) International Poverty Centre.
Borras, Saturnino and Jennifer Franco (September 2007). ‘The National Land Reform
Campaign in the Philippines.’ Institute of Development Studies, Participation Program,
University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/Part/proj/pnp.html
Borras, Saturnino and Jennifer Franco (April 2008). OGC Brief 1: Land Policy and
Governance: Gaps and Challenges in Policy Studies. Oslo: United Nations Development
Programme, Oslo Governance Centre.
http://www.undp.org/oslocentre/overview/governance_poverty_eradication.html#landgov
Borras, Saturnino and Jennifer Franco (April 2008). OGC Brief 2: Land Based Social
Relations: Key Features of a Pro-Poor Land Policy. Oslo: United Nations Development
Programme, Oslo Governance Centre.
http://www.undp.org/oslocentre/overview/governance_poverty_eradication.html#landgov
Borras, Saturnino and Jennifer Franco (April 2008). OGC Brief 3: How Land Policies
Impact Land-Based Wealth and Power Transfer. Oslo: United Nations Development
Programme, Oslo Governance Centre.
http://www.undp.org/oslocentre/overview/governance_poverty_eradication.html#landgov
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Borras, Saturnino and Jennifer Franco (April 2008). Discussion paper 3: Pro-Poor Land
Tenure Reform and Democratic Governance. Oslo: United Nations Development
Programme, Oslo Governance Centre.
http://www.undp.org/oslocentre/overview/governance_poverty_eradication.html#landgov
Borras, Saturnino Jr. and Michel Merlet (March 2007). ‘Pro-Poor Land Policy’. Rome:
UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). A Comprehensive
Background paper for IFAD’s global land policy.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2006). ‘Land, Empowerment and the Rural Poor: Challenges to Civil
Society and Development Agencies’. Rome: International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD).
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2002). ‘Land Reform – Stuck in the Mud: CARP in its 14th Year,’
in IPD Political Brief, 10(3): 1-27. Quezon City: Institute for Popular Democracy.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (2000). ‘CARP in its 12th Year: A Closer Examination of the
Agrarian Reform Performance,’ in IPD Political Brief, 8(6): 1-35. Quezon City: Institute
for Popular Democracy.
Borras, Saturnino and Jennifer C. Franco (1999). ‘The World According to CARP:
Agrarian Reform Under the Morales DAR,’ IPD Political Brief, 7(2): 1-25. Quezon City:
Institute for Popular Democracy.
Borras, Saturnino and Jennifer C. Franco (1999). ‘A Critical Analysis of the Comprehensive
Agrarian Reform Program CARP,’ Philippine International Review, 1(1): 3-10. Philippine
Solidarity Network in Europe (PSNE): Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (1998). ‘The Politics of CARP Implementation Process,’ IPD
Political Brief, August 1998, 6(3): 1-24. Quezon City: Institute for Popular Democracy.
Borras, Saturnino and Manuel Quiambao (1998). ‘The Difficult Challenge of Agrarian
Reform, Rural Development and Democratization in Banana Plantations,’ Conjuncture,
10(4): 8-10. Quezon City: Institute for Popular Democracy.
Borras, Saturnino Jr. (1998). ‘The Bibingka Strategy in Land Reform Implementation:
Autonomous Peasant Mobilizations and State Reformists in the Philippines,’ ISS Working
Papers Series 274. The Hague: Institute of Social Studies.
Popular publications
Borras, Saturnino and Jennifer Franco (December 2010). ‘Regulating Land Grabbing?’
Pambazuka News.
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Borras, Saturnino, Mary Ann Manahan and Eduardo Tadem (2008). ‘Foreign Aid and
CARP Extension’. Opinion: Talk of the Town, Philippine Daily Inquirer (page long), 5
July 2008.
Borras, Saturnino, et al. (2007). The Philippine Comprehensive Agrarian Reform
Program (CARP): A Critical Overview. CBCP News Magazine. Manila: Catholic
Bishops Conference of the Philippines.
(2004) ‘Valstrik voor Echte Herverdeling: Landhervorming en de Vrije Markt’, Tambuli
Filipijnenmagazine, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 8-11 (Utrecht: Filipijnen Groep
Nederland/FIDOC; translated from English).
Borras, Saturnino Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco (1998). “A Critical Review of CARP
Accomplishment”, serialized in The Manila Times, on 9, 10 and 11 June 1998.
MAJOR CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANIZING EXPERIENCE, RELATED TO
RESEARCH
Lead co-organizer, international conference on BRICS Initiatives for Critical Agrarian
Studies (BICAS — see, www.iss.nl/bicas), University of Brasilia, Brazil, May 2014.
Lead organizer (with Max Spoor) a day long agrarian studies colloquium, International
Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague on ‘food sovereignty: a critical dialogue’.
Speakers include: Teodor Shanin, Susan George, Olivier de Schutter, Tania Li, Peter Rosset,
et al. 24 January 2014. 350 people from across Europe participated.
Lead organizer (with Transnational Institute), a day long international workshop with 24
international participants on the politics of ‘flex crops and commodities’, ISS, The Hague.
Lead organizer (with James C. Scott and Shivi) agrarian studies colloquium, Yale
University, USA on ‘food sovereignty: a critical dialogue’. Speakers include: Teodor
Shanin, Bina Agarwal, Henry Bernstein, Olivier de Schutter, Peter Rosset, et al.14-15
September 2013. 250 people from across North America participated.
Lead organizer, founding international workshop of BRICS Initiatives for Critical Agrarian
Studies (BICAS — see, www.iss.nl/bicas), China Agricultural University, Beijing, April
2013.
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Lead organizer (together with Ian Scoones, Ben White, Wendy Wolford, and Ruth Hall)
‘Global Land Grabbing’, an international workshop/conference, Cornell University, New
York, 17-19 October 2012.
Lead organizer (with Ben White and Max Spoor) a day long agrarian studies colloquium,
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague on the issue of global land
grabbing. Speakers include: Ian Scoones, Philip McMichael, Melissa Leach et al. June 2012.
250 people from across Europe participated.
Lead organizer (with Max Spoor) a day long agrarian studies colloquium, International
Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague on the issue on the food crisis and
agroecological movements. Speakers include: Miguel Altieri, Olivier de Schutter, Tony
Weis, Eric Holt-Gimenez, et al. December 2011. 250 people from across Europe
participated.
Lead organizer (together with Ian Scoones, Ben White, Wendy Wolford, and Ruth Hall)
‘Global Land Grabbing’, an international workshop/conference, IDS-Sussex, 6-8 April
2011.
Lead organizer (with Max Spoor) a day long agrarian studies colloquium, International
Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague on the issue of labour and agrarian
transformation. Speakers include: Tania Li, Andries Du Toit, Camilla Toumin, et al. May
2011. 200 participants from across Europe.
Lead organizer (with Ben White and Max Spoor) a day long agrarian studies colloquium,
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague on the issue of land and social
movements. Speakers include: Henry Bernstein, Ian Scoones, Wendy Wolford, Ruth Hall,
Christian Lund, Bernardo Mancano Fernandes, Raul Delgado Wise, Henry Veltmeyer and
Ye Jingzhong. January 2011. 200 participants from across Europe.
Lead organizer, ‘Global land grabbing and its implications for food sovereignty’, a sideevent at the 13th Session of the World Committee for Food Security, Rome, October 2010,
together with the Transnational Institute and the land Deal Politics Initiatives (LDPI) cocoordinators: Ian Scoones, Ben White, Wendy Wolford and Ruth Hall.
Lead organizer (with Ian Scoones and Phil McMichael), global workshop on the politics of
biofuels, land and agrarian change. Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October
2009.
Co-organizer (with Henry Veltmeyer, Raúl Delgado Wise, et al), Global food crisis
conference, August 2009, Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico.
Co-organizer (with Max Spoor), ‘Civil Society Building in Transition’ (with specific
reference to the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Southeastern Europe), in collaboration with
Oxfam-Novib, ICCO, Hivos and Cordaid, as well as the DPRN. 8 December 2006, ISS, The
Hague.
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International Conference on Land, Poverty, Social Justice and Development, 9-14 January
2006, ISS, The Hague. Together with ISS colleagues, conceptualized this major
international conference on land, poverty, social justice and development, which was
participated by around 320 academics, rural social movement activists, and development
policy experts. About 120 papers were presented at this conference. On the issue of land
reform: at this scale, and the almost equal distribution of participants among the three types
of development policy actors (academic, policy practitioners and social movement activists),
it is most likely that it is the first of its kind internationally, historically.
International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, ICARRD,
Philippines, December 2000. This was an international conference, with papers and
presentations about various country experiences, but with special interest on the ongoing
land reform process in the Philippines. It was also probably at this conference that a more
systematic face-to-face encounter between the advocates of market-led approaches to land
reform and those that are opposed to such approaches has first occurred first on such a large
scale. The conference had about 300 participants, although most of whom were from the
Philippines. Dr. Borras was a member of the conference organizing committee.
International Peasants’ Conference Against Neoliberalism, April 1996, Tlaxcala, Mexico.
This conference was also the second international assembly of La Via Campesina. Co-chair
of the conference organizing committee.
TEACHING & PhD STUDENT SUPERVISION/EXAMINATION &
POST-DOC SUPERVISION
TEACHING
2011 onwards – coordinates and teaches the course ‘Politics of Agrarian Transformation’ at
the ISS every term 3: April to June.
September 2012 – August 2014, Program Convenor, Agrarian, Food and Environmental
Studies (AFES) Major, ISS, The Hague; 2011-2012, Program Convenor Agriculture and
Rural Development (ARD) Specialization in ISS
Lectured on agrarian political economy and political sociology, at the MA and PhD level, in
the Netherlands, Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, Portugal and China
2004-2006, Institute of Social Studies, part of the teaching team in the course ‘theories and
debates in agrarian transformation’, together with Cristobal Kay and Haroon Akram Lodhi.
2007-2010, Saint Mary’s University, Canada: Agrarian Transformation Course (MA level +
Honours/senior undergraduate); Thesis Research Course (MA level).
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May 2010, member of the teaching team, PhD/MA course on ‘Critical Development
Studies’ at the College of Humanities and Development, China Agricultural University –
together with Henry Bernstein and Jan Douwe van der Ploeg.
PhD STUDENT (CO)SUPERVISION – at the ISS
2015
Ratha Thuon, NFP fellowship, land grabbing in Cambodia (promotors: Borras and Spoor)
Martha Robbins, own cost, food sovereignty (promotors: Borras and Spoor)
2014
Christina Schiavoni (NWO Research Talent), on food sovereignty (Promotor Spoor, copromotor Borras)
Zhang Jin (China Scholarship Council), on the political economy of industrial tree
plantation expansion in China (promotor Spoor, co-promotor Borras)
Salena Tramel (own cost) intersections in transnational agrarian and environmental justice
movements (promotor Spoor; co-promotor Borras)
Cecile Fameree, own cost, Corporate land deals and peasant resistance in Peru. (Promotor
Spoor, co-promotor Borras)
2013
Clara Mi-young Park (own cost), ‘Land Enclosures, Gender and Trajectories of Agrarian
Change - The gender impacts of corporate land deals on land rights, labour and income
generating opportunities’ (Promotor Spoor, co-promotor Borras; White, member of
supervisory team).
Daniele Andrade, ISS (own cost), ‘Political Economy of Agrarian Transformation in
Mozambique: following the Brazilian Example?’ (Promotor Spoor, Co-promotor Borras).
SiuSue Mark (own cost), 'Political Economy of Land Reform in National Regime
Transitions in the Era of Global Land Grabbing: The Multi-ethnic Case of Myanmar'
(Promotor Spoor, Co-promotor Borras).
Eric Gutierrez (own cost), 'Criminals without Borders: Land-grabbing and the Illicit
Economy' (Promotor Spoor, Co-promotor Borras).
Zoe Brent (own cost), 'Land Access Mechanisms in the Global North´ (Promotor Spoor,
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Co-promotor Borras).
Xu Yunan, (full scholarship from China Scholarship Council, CSC) ´The Political
Economy of Chinese Extractive Investments in China and Southeast Asia´ (Promotor
Spoor, Co-promotor Borras).
2012
Natalia Mamonova, ERC scholarship, ‘Land Grabbing and Rural Social Movements in
Russia and Ukraine’ (Promotor Spoor, co-promotores Visser and Borras).
Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, own cost: ‘Land Grabbing in Guatemala’ (Promotor Spoor, copromotor Borras).
Benedict McKay, full scholarship from Canadian SSHRC: ‘Competing models of and
strategies for socially-inclusive and environmentally sustainable rural development:
Brazil and Bolivia compared’, (Promotor Spoor, co-promotor Borras).
2011
Tsegaye Morade Shegro, NOW scholarship: ‘Rural Livelihoods and Food Security in the
Gondar Region, Ethiopia’ (Promotor Spoor, co-promotores Büscher and Borras)
2007
Martua Sirait, Land reform in Indinesua (Promotor Ben White, co-promotor Borras)
PhD STUDENT SUPERVISION – OUTSIDE THE ISS
2011 – , Lisa Alano, WOTRO Fellowship, ‘Gender and labour transformation amidst largescale land deals: the case of the Philippines’, University of Amsterdam (with Prof. B. White
and Dr. R.A. Rutten, and Dr. Borras as co-promotor)
2011- , Tania Salerno, WOTRO Fellowship, ‘Finance capital and global land deals:
Indonesia and Philippines compared’, University of Amsterdam (with Prof. B. White and
Dr. R.A. Rutten, and Dr. Borras as co-promotor)
2013-2016, Almudena Garcia, Marie Curie grant, ‘The political economy and ecology of
soya complex in Paraguay’, (with Esteva Corbera, and Dr. Borras as co-promotor)
2010 -2016, Melanie Sommervile, IDRC doctoral grant, ‘Financialization of agriculture in
the North: the Canadian First Nations and South Africa compared’. University of British
Columbia, Canada
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2012-2015, Pierre Merlet 4-year doctoral research grant, VLIR-UOS (Belgian research
council), University of Antwerp (with Johan Bastiansen as promotor, and Dr. Borras as
co-promotor)
2012-2015, Boris Verbrugge, University of Ghent, 4-year doctoral research grant, VLIRUOS, small scale mining in the Philippines (with Prof Dr. K. Vlassenroot as promotor,
and Dr. Borras as co-promotor).
2014 - , Robin Thiers, post-land redistribution agrarian change in the Philippines
(Promotor: K. Vlassenroot; Borras, co-promotor)
PhD EXAMINATIONS
Leah Temper, December 2014. Autonomous University of Barcelona. On the politics of
land grabbing. Promotor: Joan Martinez-Alier
Deniz Aksin, 2014. ISS on peasant resistance to neoliberalization of agricultural policies in
Turkey (I was a member of the IDC that completed work in August 2014; formal defence in
December 2014)
Hannington Odame, 2014. ISS. On biotechnology in Kenya.
Meng Xiangdan, 2014. Wageningen University. Feminization of agricultural production in
rural China: sociological analysis
Nicolette Anne Larder, 2014. The efficacy of ‘land grabbing’: resonance of the land
grabbing frame in Mali, West Africa, The University of Queensland, Australia
2011, University of Leeds, Giuliano Martinello, ‘Accumulation by dispossession in
contemporary South Africa: experiences in the land reform process’ (promotor: Ray
Bush)
2012, ISS, The Hague, Donald Mmari, Livelihoods of smallholders in Tanzanian
(promotor: Marc Wuyts)
2012, Priscilla Claeys, ‘The right to food and food sovereignty’, University of Louvain,
Belgium, ‘ (promotor: Olivier de Schutter)
2012, Hermine Stelzhammer, University of Vienna and Macquarie University, Australia,
‘Livelihoods in the Lake Gariep Region: A Study of Socio-Economic Conditions in PostApartheid Rural South Africa’ (promotor: Steve Wood)
2013, Nick Rose, Optimism of the Will: Food Sovereignty as Transformative CounterHegemony in the 21st Century, School of Graduate Research RMIT University,
Melbourne, Australia (promotor: Paul James)
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2013, Tim Siegenbeek van Heukelom, Food As Security: The controversy of foreign
agricultural investment in the Yala Swamp, Kenya, University of Sydney (promotor:
Peter Curson)
28 June 2013, Arnim Scheidel, ‘The political economy/political ecology of large-scale
land investments in Cambodia,’ Autonomous University of Barcelona (promotor: M.
Giampietro)
20 July 2013, Richard Ampadou, ‘Land rights in Ghana’, ISS, The Hague (promotors:
Ben White and Max Spoor)
EXTERNALLY FUNDED POST-DOC SUPERVISION
Dr. Sergio Sauer, University of Brasilia, CAPES, 2014-2015, land politics and peasant
movements
Dr. Hu Zhen, China Agricultural University, China Schlarship Council, 2014-2015, land
property regimes and land conflicts in China.
Dr. Carol Hunsberger, SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship, 2012-2014, land use change
Dr. Wang Chunyu, China Scholarship Council fellowship, 2012-2013, the rise of BRICS
and its implications for agrarian transformation
Dr. Liu Juan, China Agricultural University fellowship, 2013-2014, the rise of BRICS
and its implications for agrarian transformation
SOCIETAL IMPACT AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
FAO-ISS strategic partnership through collaborative research and policy/scientific
advice, with Dr. Borras as coordinator, 2014 – present.
UN CFS High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) on Food Security and Nutrition. Member,
UN FAO High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) Project Team that prepared a major global
report on International Land Investments released and addressed in the plenary discussion
of the UN Committee of Food Security in 2011. The 5-person team was coordinated by
Camilla Toulmin.
FAO Latin America and the Caribbean. Provided a synthesis study of the FAOcommissioned 17 studies of land grabbing in 17 countries in the region. Together with
other colleagues (including ISS’s Max Spoor and Cristobal Kay), took the lead in doing
the study and writing the paper.
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UN Rapporteur for the Right to Food internal workshop-consultation with 25
international experts on biofuels. Brussels. 24–25 November 2011.
UNESCO International Strategic workshop planning for 2012-2016 plan – focusing on
development and ethics. I was a resource person for this strategic planning workshop,
held in Mexico City in August 2011.
UNEP Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-5). I was a co-lead author of the GEO-5
Report, chapter on land, which was the main document for the Rio+ 20 huge gathering in
Brazil in June 2012.
La Via Campesina International Conference Against Land-Grabbing. In November 2011,
La Via Campesina, today’s largest and most important international peasant and farmer’s
movement held its first ever international conference against land grabbing by peasant
movements themselves. I gave a plenary input.
La Via Campesina International Conference on Struggles for Land and Territory. In July
2012, La Via Campesina held another international conference on the pro-active struggles
for land and territory. I gave a plenary input.
Dutch National Parliament Public Hearing on Land Grabbing, February 2013. Provided
an expert’s testimony about global land grabbing.
SELECT KEYNOTE/PLENARY TALKS
25 March 2015, Keynote, seminar on land grabs, peace settlement and international
governance, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogota
16 March, Geneva Graduate Institute, keynote, launch of the 2015-2021 research on land
grabs and gender implications.
30- Jan – 1 February 2015, NPT, Myanmar, Experts meeting on the National Land Use
Policy, keynote address
2-3 February 2015, National teach-in/conference of ‘Land In Our Hands’ national
network of grassroots rural organizations; gave the main input for two day
6-8 May 2014, University of Brasilia, Brazil. Plenary speaker, international conference on
the rise of BRICS and its implications for global agrarian transformation
28 Feb to 2 March 2014, MIT, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, plenary speaker, international
conference on alternative land property rights from below.
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13-15 February 2014, The Arrighi Centre, Johns Hopkins University, USA, keynote on
transnational agrarian movements and political reactions from below in the context of global
land grabbing
Keynote speaker (together with Professor Benedict Anderson), University of Montreal,
17-19 October 2013, Biannual Conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian
Studies (CCSEAS)
Keynote speaker, Land Grab, rural development and the right to food: international
conference on the land question in Colombia, 9-11 October 2013, Colombia, Universidad
Externado de Colombia
Plenary speaker (together with Olivier de Schutter, among others), 6-7 May 2013,
University of California, Berkeley’s launch of its new Berkeley Food Institute
Keynote, Burma, 19 May 2012, co-organized by the Food Security Working Group,
Transnational Institute and the Office of the Prime Minister. ‘On conflict transformation
and pro-poor land policy’
China Agricultural University, Beijing, Critical Agrarian and International Development
Studies Seminar Series, November 2012, Beijing, ‘Why land politics matter’.
Keynote, Burma, November 2012 co-organized by the Food Security Working Group,
Transnational Institute and the Office of the Prime Minister. ‘On conflict transformation
and pro-poor land policy’.
Plenary speaker, Global Soil Week, Berlin, November 2012, sponsored by the Potsdam
Institute for Sustainability and Climate Change. Making Soil Governance Work for
Sustainable Livelihoods.
Resource person, international workshop on land grabbing in the Americas, Oakland,
California, Food First, June 2012.
Keynote speaker, land grabbing in Southeast Asia, Bali, Indonesia, July 2012, organized
by various social movement organizations
Keynote speaker, global partners’ strategy workshop on land grabs (attended by 50 key
social movement groups), Berlin, July 2012
Seminar speaker, University of Copenhagen, conference on land politics, sovereignty and
citizenship, PROCIT-sponsored, organized by Christian Lund, May 2012.
Keynote speaker, Yale Sustainable Food Conference, New Haven, The politics of food
and global land grabbing, 31 January 2012
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Main speaker, with Tony Bebbington, Wageningen University, December 2012, on
contemporary agrarian-environmental movements
UNRISD-Geneva Graduate Institute in Development Studies, on gender dimension of
land grabbing 2012.
Keynote speaker, November 2011, Santiago, Chile, Land grabbing in Latin America and
the Caribbean, FAO, attended by a dozen ministers from across the region.
Keynote speaker, November 2011, German Ministry for Development Assistance (BMZ)
and GIZ and key NGOs under the umbrella of Fri-Ent, on conflict and land issues
Plenary speaker, Utrecht University, international conference eon ‘green criminology,
focusing on Brazil and Colombia’, April 2012
Key resource person, UNESCO strategic planning workshop, Mexico City, August 2011.
Resource person, international workshop on global agrarian transformations, lessons for
South Africa, Beijing, February 2012, led by Fred Hendricks, South Africa, for a
SANPAD project
University of Leeds, seminar main speaker, the politics of land grabbing, 17 February
2011
SELECT MEDIA INTERVIEWS
Selected interviews:
2013
The Guardian, April 2013, on land grabbing in Europe
Volkskrant, April 2013, on land grabbing in Europe
OneWorld Magazine, October 2013, on food security worldwide and the
Netherlands
Magazine L'actualité in Montreal (www.lactualite.com), for release in
June, on global land grabs
2012
Burma Times, November 2012, on land issues in Burma and worldwide
Burma top TV channel, November 2012, on land issues in Burma and worldwide
Burma Times, May 2012, on land issues in Burma and worldwide
Waterchannel (video interview), April 2012, The Netherlands
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2011
Volkskrant, January 2011, on ‘slave-like’ workers in Brazilian sugarcane
plantations
The Guardian, April 2011, on land grabbing
Plus:
2008. Brazil, State of São Paolo, re our field visits and analysis of the social impact of
sugarcane mono-cropping.
South Africa, on prospects of land reform in South Africa, October 2008.
Indonesia, on some strategies on how to achieve pro-poor land reform, October 2003.
Philippines, multiple, mostly on land reform; in 1998, 1999, 2008, 2009 (The Manila Times
and the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Ithaca, New York, April 2009, Ithaca News, on the global food crisis.
Halifax, Canada (Chronicle Herald), 2007, about my research on land, food security and
global poverty.
TV
25 March 2015, National TV, Bogota, Colombia
Philippine’s ABS-CBN, June 2008 re 20th year anniversary of the Comprehensive Agrarian
Reform Program (CARP) and the future of land reform in the country.
Radio
The New Internationalist, re global mainstream initiative on land titling and dispossession.
Video/Internet
ICCO in Brazil, July 2008. Video interview, for internet feature video clips for ICCO global
networks re Brazilian landless movement’s struggles for land in the context of expanding
biofuel production.
ICCO General Assembly, September 2009, Utrecht, for ICCO’s global network, re global
food and energy crisis.
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Yale School of Law, April 2010, on global land grabbing.
New York University, February 2009, on the global food and energy crisis and global land
grabbing.
The Broker, The Netherlands, summer of 2012, on land grabbing.
The WaterChannel, The Netherlands, summer 2012, on land grabbing
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