Agriculture Beyond Food
Suraya Afiff , Jacqueline Vel , Huub Löffler , Cora Govers | 05 December 2025This blogpost is about the master class Agriculture Beyond Food that took place the first week of December in Indonesia. One of the main challenges discussed is how to choose for the food and fuel option, rather than food or fuel.
▶The new bad guys
Jojanneke Spoor | 07 June 2025The land is clear, empty. Pictures appear on the screen as Jun Borras talks and they show nothing – just barren land. Borras is talking about global land grabs at the TNI Fellows Meeting (3-4 June). He talks about the new bad guys, the big co…
▶Dimensions of global land grabbing
Jojanneke Spoor | 05 June 2025Jun Borras is Associate Professor in Rural Development, Environment and Population at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS). At the 2011 Fellows Meeting of the Transnational Institute, Borras talked about land grabbing. He has spent the last few y…
▶Water- the perfect commodity
Jojanneke Spoor | 05 June 2025Maryann Manahan, researcher with Focus on the Global South, discusses the issue of water grabbing at the TNI Fellows Meeting 2011. How does this kn…
▶UK leads the run for biofuels in Africa
Evert-jan Quak | 31 May 2025Yesterday, The Guardian published an interesting investigation on biofuels in Africa. Although it is difficult to have a complete picture of all land acquired by foreign companies for biofuel production as there are no central records of land…
▶Leaked report for G20 to tackle food price volatility
Evert-jan Quak | 11 May 2025Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest (11th May 2011) reveals new details from a leaked report urging G-20 to tackle food price volatility by reforming biofuel policies, curbing the use of agricultural export restrictions, and rebuilding emergency food…
▶The myths of global land grabbing untangled
Evert-jan Quak | 03 April 2025This week the three-day international conference on Global Land Grabbing will start in Brighton, United Kingdom. Land grabbing has been an issue for some years now, but the focus among academics seems to be changing. This is the outcome of the “Th…
▶Commission explores threats of climate change to food security
13 March 2025An agriculture research consortium (Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security; Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research; Earth System Science Partnership; Global Donor Platform for Rural Development) announced on 11 March, 201…
▶Climate smart agriculture is climbing hill after hill
Johnny Ogunji | 28 February 2025The second day of NASAC-KNAW Scientific Conference on ‘The Impact of and Adaptation to Climate Change in Relation to Food Security in Africa’ in Nairobi, Kenya, became more intense. Speakers reiterated the fact that Africa is particularly vulnerab…
▶The emerging securitisation of food
Tim Siegenbeek van Heukelom | 28 February 2025When we speak of ‘food security’ we generally refer to ‘a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences fo…
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