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The Newsletter 58 Autumn 2011
Food Security and Land Grabbing
Local crop or foreign commodity? Guest editor Annelies Zoomers considers the food security debate in Asia, in the context of domestic and international land acquisitions intended to meet increasing demands for both food and (bio)energy. Various strategies, such as offshore farming, the creation of agro-hubs, and foreign investors, aim to increase food security, yet often have an adverse impact on local communities and their ecosystems.
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4 - 5 Maclaine Pont and the discovery of Bharada's Hermitage |
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6 - 7 The Chinese century |
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8 - 9 Shanghai under siege: letters and photographs of Karel Frederik Mulder |
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10 The cultural crossroads: St. Petersburg, Batavia, Amsterdam |
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11 Chinese logic and Chinese philosophy: reconstruction or integration? |
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12 - 13 Power politics and the contested meaning of heritage: Nepal’s civil war (1996-2006) |
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14 - 15 The making of Southeast Asian silicon valleys: the perspective of the geeks |
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16 - 17 Pyongyang goes back to the Party |
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19 - 20 Food security strategies in South and Southeast Asia |
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21 Rethinking China's 'land grabs' |
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22 - 23 A new equation for oil palm |
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24 - 25 Food security and energy development in Vietnam |
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26 - 27 Land acquisitions by non-local actors |
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28 - 29 Forests and food security |
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31 Indigenous history: an antidote to the Zomia theory? |
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32 - 33 Upward and downward mobility through migration: responses to an anthropological documentary on Indian youngsters in London |
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34 - 35 Peripheral Philippines |
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36 Festschrift: Asia in three parts |
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36 - 37 Double feature |
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37 Powerplay |
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38 - 39 Lontar: found in translation |
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| 40 - 42... | News from Asia |
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| 43.......... | IIAS News |
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| 44.......... | IIAS Research Projects |
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| 45.......... | IIAS Fellows |
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48 George Chinnery comes home |
