scholarly journals Land grab / data grab

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Global South ◽  
Agricultural Technology ◽  
Land Grab ◽  
The People ◽  
Land Grabs ◽  
Data Production ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Key Issues

Developments in the area of ‘precision agriculture’ are creating new data points (about flows, soils, pests, climate) that agricultural technology providers ‘grab,’ aggregate, compute, and/or sell. Food producers now churn out food and, increasingly, data. ‘Land grabs’ on the horizon in the global south are bound up with the dynamics of data production and grabbing, although researchers have not, as yet, revealed enough about the people and projects caught up in this new arena. Against this backdrop, this paper examines some of the key issues taking shape, while highlighting new frontiers for research and introducing a concept of ‘data sovereignty,’ which food sovereignty practitioners (and others) need to consider.

“Community Interests” and the Role of International Law in the Creation of a Global Market for Agricultural Land

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jochen von Bernstorff
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Land Grab ◽  
Large Scale Land ◽  
The One

The chapter explores the notion of “community interests” with regard to the global “land-grab” phenomenon. Over the last decade, a dramatic increase of foreign investment in agricultural land could be observed. Bilateral investment treaties protect around 75 per cent of these large-scale land acquisitions, many of which came with associated social problems, such as displaced local populations and negative consequences for food security in Third World countries receiving these large-scale foreign investments. Hence, two potentially conflicting areas of international law are relevant in this context: Economic, social, and cultural rights and the principles of permanent sovereignty over natural resources and “food sovereignty” challenging large-scale investments on the one hand, and specific norms of international economic law stabilizing them on the other. The contribution discusses the usefulness of the concept of “community interests” in cases where the two colliding sets of norms are both considered to protect such interests.

Populism and Liberal Democracy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takis S. Pappas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Comprehensive Theory ◽  
The People ◽  
Original Definition ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Great Relevance ◽  
Definition Of

Based on an original definition of modern populism as “democratic illiberalism” and many years of meticulous research, Takis Pappas marshals extraordinary empirical evidence from Argentina, Greece, Peru, Italy, Venezuela, Ecuador, Hungary, the United States, Spain, and Brazil to develop a comprehensive theory about populism. He addresses all key issues in the debate about populism and answers significant questions of great relevance for today’s liberal democracy, including: • What is modern populism and how can it be differentiated from comparable phenomena like nativism and autocracy? • Where in Latin America has populism become most successful? Where in Europe did it emerge first? Why did its rise to power in the United States come so late? • Is Trump a populist and, if so, could he be compared best with Venezuela’s Chávez, France’s Le Pens, or Turkey’s Erdoğan? • Why has populism thrived in post-authoritarian Greece but not in Spain? And why in Argentina and not in Brazil? • Can populism ever succeed without a charismatic leader? If not, what does leadership tell us about how to challenge populism? • Who are “the people” who vote for populist parties, how are these “made” into a group, and what is in their minds? • Is there a “populist blueprint” that all populists use when in power? And what are the long-term consequences of populist rule? • What does the expansion, and possibly solidification, of populism mean for the very nature and future of contemporary democracy? Populism and Liberal Democracy will change the ways the reader understands populism and imagines the prospects of liberal democracy.

scholarly journals Food Sovereignty and the Global South

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Cristian Timmermann ◽  
Georges F. Félix
Keyword(s):  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Global South

scholarly journals Facing Scarcity in a Land Grab Context in Cameroon

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 153-171
Author(s):  
Hugues Morell Meliki
Keyword(s):  
Rural Area ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Land Grab ◽  
Critical Exploration ◽  
Land Grabs

This paper undertakes a critical exploration of the mechanisms via which communities cope with scarcity resulting from land grabs. It explores two ranges of practices – residential multilocality and sorcery – through the lens of resilience. Residential multilocality appears as a novel living arrangement dealing with resource scarcity, while sorcery is used as a tool for bolstering a policy of resource regeneration. Thus, instead of rushing to nearby cities as a response to scarcity, the communities observed reinstate two silenced dynamics. Firstly, they underscore the rise of inter, and intra-rural mobility entrenched in the paradigm of residential multilocality. The paradigm embodies a scarcity management strategy in the sense that the abundance of vital resources in one rural area attracts villagers from other communities struggling with scarcity. Secondly, sorcery is used as a strategy to command eco-friendly behavior of villagers in order to successfully achieve a resource regeneration policy.

scholarly journals Food Sovereignty Practices at the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin Tsyunhehkw^ Farm

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-128
Author(s):  
Zuzanna Kruk-Buchowska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
Oneida Community ◽  
The People ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Three Sisters

The paper looks at the role of traditional foodways and related cultural practices in Oneida’s contemporary food sovereignty efforts, and the various understandings of the continuity of food and agricultural traditions in the community. The tribe’s Tsyunhehkw^’s (joon-hen-kwa) farm, whose name loosely translates into “life sustenance” in English, serves important cultural, economic and educational purposes. It grows Oneida white flint corn, which is considered sacred by the tribe and is used for ceremonial purposes, it grows the tobacco used for ceremonies and runs a traditional Three Sisters Garden. The Three Sisters – corn, beans and squash, are an important part of the Oneida creation story, as well as the vision of Handsome Lake – a Seneca prophet from the turn of the 19th century, who played an significant role in the revival of traditional religion among the People of the Longhouse.[1] They inform the work done at Tsyunhehkw^ to provide healthful food for the Oneida community. [1]The Oneida form part of the Iroquois Confederacy (as called by the French), referred to as the League of Five Nations by the English, or the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, as they call themselves. Haudenosaunee translates into the People of the Longhouse. The Confederacy, which was founded by the prophet known as Peacemaker with the help of Hiawatha, is made up of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas. It was intended as a way to unite the nations and create a peaceful means of decision making. The exact date of the joining of the nations is unknown and it is one of the first and longest lasting participatory democracies in the world (“About the Haudenosaunee Confederacy” 2019).

scholarly journals The INFLUENCE OF PRODUCTION FACTORS TOWARD ECONOMIC GROWTH IN INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-46
Author(s):  
Wilson Bangun
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Production Factor ◽  
Domestic Investment ◽  
Ordinary Least Square ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
The People ◽  
Data Production ◽  
Using Data

Economic growth as a mesurement and reflect of the people prosperity. Employee production factor have a better contribution if  to compare with capital and technology production factors on Indonesian economic growth. However, Indonesian workforce quality is lowest in ASEAN-5. The research methodology is using the Cobb-Douglas production function with the Ordinary Least Square (OLS), the using equation formulation: lnY = ln a + bi  +e. This research using data is secondary data: production factors using data of progressing of FDI and domestic investment, source of  the World Bank, 2004-2016; Employment is using data of progressing of Indonesia workforce,  sourced from the Biro Pusat Statistik Republik Indonesia, 2004-2016. The research results show that influence of the production factors toward Indonesia economic growth is strongly. This researchs aim to knowledge a large the contribution of production factors on Indonesian Economic growth.

Introduction to Agricultural Information Systems

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Narasimha Rao Vajjhala
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Management Information Systems ◽  
Farm Management ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Adoption And Implementation ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Efficiency And Productivity

This chapter provides an introduction to agricultural and farm management information systems. This chapter provides an overview of the components, subsystems, processes, and operations in agricultural information systems. This chapter also covers the impact of these systems in improving the efficiency, and productivity of farm output. This chapter introduces several technologies related to the use of information systems in agriculture, including agricultural information systems (AIS), farm management information systems (FMIS), e-agriculture, and precision agriculture. This chapter introduces state-of-the-art technologies used in agriculture in the current context apart from providing an introduction to the use and adoption rates of these information systems. This chapter concludes with a brief discussion on the issues facing the adoption and implementation of agricultural information systems and presents some of the key issues that decision makers need to take to improve the acceptance and use of these information systems.

Measuring Agreement Among Ranks

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Campbell Garwood ◽  
Alicia Graziosi Strandberg
Keyword(s):  
Specific Pattern ◽  
Comparison Methods ◽  
The People ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Good For ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Measuring Agreement ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Kendall’S W

Is it possible to compare rankings from different sources when the individual rankings of the top x elements differ? To investigate this question, 2015 sustainable rankings from 4 sources that have ranked the top globally most sustainable corporations are considered (Corporate Knights, Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies, Newsweek's Green Rankings, and Harris). These rankings are analyzed using common rank comparison methods (Spearman's ?, Kendall's t). Then, they are analyzed to see if the sources ranking the data are doing so at random or if there is a specific pattern of agreement (Kendall's W and a method by Alvo, Cabilio & Feigin (1982)). The insights from these methods as well as possible limitations are considered. A truly sustainable corporation would transcend all definitions and be good for the environment and the people relying on the company. This paper will attempt to identify data points that tend to cluster close together in one or more groups, thereby justifying the feasibility of identifying sets of companies that are truly the “most” sustainable.

East and West, Past and Present

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-57
Author(s):  
Connie Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Human Suffering ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Ancient Chinese ◽  
Peter Drucker ◽  
Chinese Philosophers ◽  
Elton Mayo

This paper explores the sayings and stories of the ancient Chinese philosophers Guanzi, Hanfeizi, Xunzi and Yanzi. Their way of ruling the state and managing the people are analysed and discussed in line with thoughts from the mainstream and modern Western management gurus, such as Warren Bennis, Peter Drucker, Mary Parker Follett, Douglas McGregor, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Elton Mayo, and Jeffrey Pfeffer. Striking similarities call for addressing key issues in human resource management. East and west thinkers across 3000 years are identified. The principles-based ruling and management were found difficult to be taken seriously in ancient times as it is today. However, these principles must be rekindled to protect organisations and the world from mischievous behaviour that has caused much human suffering.

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