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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

3 years

Pleased to say that my podcast, Peasants, food and agrarian change, is now available on Spotify:

Listen to Peasants, Food and Agrarian Change on Spotify. More than 3.4 billion people live in the countryside of developing countries. The vast majority of these women and men rely, to a lesser or...

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

I am very pleased to have received my editor's copy of my new co-edited book, Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies, published by @ElgarPublishing . Thanks to my co-editors, Ben McKay, Bettina Engels and @dietz_kristina . It is a handsome - and big! - volume

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

6 months

It's my 65th birthday and what a present! Our new #OpenAccess book, "Becoming a Young Farmer: Young People's Pathways into Farming - Canada, China, India, Indonesia" is now available for download:

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 months

A remarkable new book that can be had #OpenAccess at : "Epistemologies of Land," edited by Felix Anderl. Check it out

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

I am really pleased that my second year course @TrentUniversity , "Peasants, food and agrarian change," is now available for all as a podcast:

Peasants, Food and Agrarian Change - voicEd

More than 3.4 billion people live in the countryside of developing countries. The vast majority of these women and men rely, to a lesser or great extent, on small-scale farming as the basis of their...

voiced.ca

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

I am very pleased to say that this morning we have submitted the final manuscript of the @EdwardElgar Handbook of #CriticalAgrarianStudies . It has taken almost 4 years to get to this point, but the final manuscript is possibly the best thing that I have done #globaldev

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

This is global human inequality:

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

"There is no question on Earth as powerful as land." The incoming Editors of @Peasant_Journal lay out an agenda for critical agrarian studies:

Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions

The politics of food, climate, energy, and the yet unfinished work of ending colonialism run square through questions of land. The classical agrarian question has taken on new forms, and a new inte...

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

9 months

Coming in September, and essential to @IAFFE and beyond: Feminist Political Economy, by Cantillon, Mackett and @SaraStevano . I'm looking at it now and it is quite brilliant

Feminist Political Economy | Columbia University Press

Feminist political economy is essential to understanding the power relations and hierarchies that shape and sustain contemporary capitalism. Motivated by the... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

4 months

It is always great when you finally hold your work in your hands. I have three contributions in this #OpenAccess book, available at no cost here:

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

4 years

I am pleased to share the draft table of contents of our forthcoming @ElgarPublishing Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies. With over 70 contributions, and after more than 2 years of work, the manuscript is almost done #globaldev @Peasant_Journal @AgrarianChange #foodsovereignty

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

Coming in December. When Barbara Harriss-White saw the Table of Contents, she wrote back: "WOW!"

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

For one week only, 45 free access articles from @Peasant_Journal , the premier journal in critical agrarian and rural studies - including my own "Agroecology and the agrarian question in the 21st century"

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

Why #foodsystems are critical to the #COP27 agenda @sprasadfj @IPESfood @hlpe_cfs @JoseLViveroPol @JennClapp @WilliamGMoseley @cadwego @mjahi @nadialambek @UN_CFS @bdowduribe @Peasant_Journal @NFUcanada @NFUOntario @Envirofood @RuthHallPLAAS @fmlappe @lizwcarlisle @MichaelFakhri

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

If you are attending #COP15 think about attending our side event on #biodiversity and the future of the #foodsystem . Many thanks to @IPESfood for assisting in the organization of this event

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

In some personal news: I am leaving academia to take a senior role in global risk management for @BlackRock

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

I am pleased to say that Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies, co-edited by myself, Bettina Engels, @dietz_kristina and @bmmcky is finally available in paperback It's still very pricey, but far less so than it was

Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies

‘This impressive Handbook captures and reflects the vibrancy of, and will propel further, the rapidly expanding field of critical agrarian studies. It is an indispensable reference in the field for...

www.e-elgar.com

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

The time of my writing retreat is almost at an end. But while the text may be rough, I've been able to write around 40,000 words at this spot, 50m from Morjim beach. By my standards, that's a lot. So I'd call it a success

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

So this is interesting. @JennClapp introduced me to a tool on @FT of which I was not aware. The spike in key #cropfutures began around July 2020; the war in #Ukraine only aggravated the underlying trend. Big agriculture was not as resilient during #COVID19 as is made out

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

Today would have been my mother's 87th birthday. It is remarkable that, only 10 years after her death, I am most likely the only person on the planet who knows that today would have been her birthday. It is a testimony to how ephemeral our lives are

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

7 years

Every Canadian needs to read this. I will put it in my first year number 3 lecture on colonialism #globaldev

Sylvia

@LawladyINM

7 years

My mom passed away so purging her papers & came across this #UNsettle150 @canada150th @RussDiabo @1mohawklawyer @LeahArcand @LeahGAZ

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 months

#LandGrabbing2024 is 60 % academic, 30 % peasant movements, and 10 % agrarian civil servants. So it makes sense that the first speaker is a Colombian peasant leader

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

Day 1 of my writing retreat: two and a half pretty good paragraphs is not bad considering how jet lagged I feel. Now it's time for one of these, I think

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

Interested in undertaking doctoral research in #foodsystems ? There are 15 -- count 'em, 15! -- fully-funded places available here:

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

Words every author loves to read: "It is my pleasure to inform you that your book has now gone to print."

Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies

‘This impressive Handbook captures and reflects the vibrancy of, and will propel further, the rapidly expanding field of critical agrarian studies. It is an indispensable reference in the field for...

www.e-elgar.com

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

Jun Borras' valedictory article on his departure as editor of @Peasant_Journal is an important "state of the art" read: "Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today." #OpenAccess

Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today

Critical Agrarian Studies has three actual and aspirational interlocking features which together connect the worlds of academic research and practical politics: it is politically engaged, pluralist...

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

John Toye has died. "Dilemmas of Development" was a direct challenge to the orthodoxies of the 1980s. Unfortunately, it is more relevant than ever. He will be missed

John Toye obituary

Other lives: Economist who examined the effect of free-market policies on developing countries

www.theguardian.com

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

After a long gestation, I am pleased that this article has now seen the light of day: "The ties that bind? Agroecology and the agrarian question in the twenty-first century" @Peasant_Journal

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

My new article in @Peasant_Journal , "The ties that bind? Agroecology and the agrarian question in the twenty-first century," is now #freeaccess

The ties that bind? Agroecology and the agrarian question in the twenty-first century

This paper argues, firstly, that the notion that a resolution of the agrarian question requires the dissolution of small-scale farming is not what Marx thought. It argues, secondly, that extractivi...

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

Co-edited with Bettina Engels, @dietz_kristina and Ben M McKay, I am very pleased to say that the Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies will soon be available in Bahasa Indonesia

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

9 months

Spot on, as ever, from @Jayati1609 on the myth of a global grain shortage

The Myth of Global Grain Shortages | by Jayati Ghosh - Project Syndicate

Jayati Ghosh argues that efforts to support Ukrainian wheat exports primarily serve the interests of agribusiness giants.

www.project-syndicate.org

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

Michael Lipton has died. He was without doubt one of the most influential development economists of his generation. We never agreed, but he was unflinchingly generous

Michael Lipton 1937 - 2023 - Institute of Development Studies

It is with sadness that we announce the death of IDS Emeritus Fellow Michael Lipton, who was a friend, and colleague to many at IDS and beyond.

www.ids.ac.uk

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

So that's the end of teaching for this academic year. I won't see my office again until September (as I am on sabbatical)

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

4 years

"Food politics and development": one heck of a thorough review of the literature that points to ways forward, @gotonura ! #globaldev @JennClapp @foodgovernance @cadwego

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

"New research"? Where have you been for 50 years? The McNamara Bank said this!

World Bank

@WorldBank

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New research shows that greater attention in development policy to rural areas holds important promise to accelerate poverty reduction, increase food security, and also to improve migratory flows (including internationally). Read more here

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

9 months

I am pleased to say that my review of the excellent "Distress in the Fields: Indian Agriculture after Liberalization" is now available from @Peasant_Journal

Distress in the fields: Indian agriculture after economic liberalization

Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol. 50, No. 7, 2023)

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

Tomorrow marks 30 years since @via_campesina was founded in Mons, Belgium. LVC has not accomplished its end goals, but it has accomplished a lot more than many thought possible, and changed the terms of numerous agrarian debates

From Mons to the World: La Via Campesina Celebrates 30 Years of globalizing peasant struggle and...

Europe

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

I am pleased to say that the impact factor for @CanDevStudies , published by @CASID_ACEDI , from which I just stepped down as Editor, has risen from 1.058 to 1.6. One should not place too much weight on these measures, but still ... it feels good

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 month

Come work with me and other outstanding colleagues in the newly-renamed Department of #GlobalDevelopment Studies @TrentUniversity :

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

A towering figure in the feminist sociology of development, Maria Mies has died. You simply can't understand what #globaldev is and is not without encountering her work. @IAFFE would not be the same without her interventions

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

10 months

Next year is the 45th anniversary of Carmen Diana Deere's and Alain de Janvry's classic exposition of the mechanisms of surplus extraction facing peasant households. It remains as relevant as ever

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

5 years

In light of the #Nobel going to Duflo and Banerjee, here's my 2014 assessment of their earlier work, "Poor economics", which explains my misgivings about #RCTs #globaldev

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

The subtitle to the article encapsulates what is wrong with dominant narratives about industrial agriculture

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@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

Nilufer Cagatay has died, far too soon. She was a force of nature. The entire @IAFFE community will be less for her passing

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

Next week I am giving a seminar in the @AgrarianChange seminar series. The link to the event is:

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

7 months

The entire cast and crew of the @Peasant_Journal 50th anniversary conference at #COHD in Beijing. If you look closely you will see me

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

@waub I’m a 62-year-old settler, and although I’ve seen a lot of s**t in my life in Canada, there’s always something that Canada has done or is doing to Indigenous people that makes me just shake my head, sigh and feel like a lesser person

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

For a limited time, my short article, Contemporary pathogens and the capitalist world food system, is free access:

Contemporary pathogens and the capitalist world food system

Zoonotic diseases like SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, are human bacterial and viral infections that originate in animals and which cross the species barrier. Over the ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

I strongly recommend this excellent new #OpenAccess paper by @JennClapp Concentration and crises: exploring the deep roots of vulnerability in the global industrial food system

Concentration and crises: exploring the deep roots of vulnerability in the global industrial food...

The world has experienced three global food crises in the past 50 years. While unique triggers sparked each of these crises, they all exposed extreme concentration within the global industrial food...

www.tandfonline.com

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

8 months

A great interview with @theshepherdswi1 . I can't wait to read the book and put it beside the two from @herdyshepherd1

Farmer’s wife Helen Rebanks: ‘There was a fire in me about speaking up for the women who hold...

The wife of bestselling author James has written a book of her own shining a light on small-scale farming. She talks about the pressures of Brexit and preposterous trade deals

www.theguardian.com

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

#foodsystems are increasingly financialized. @JennClapp and Ryan Isakson's "Speculative Harvests" offers a precise, concise and sophisticated introduction. Commissioned by @ICAS_Agrarian , @PracticalAction has made it available as a free ebook:

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 months

The great @MarcEdelmanNYC introduces his new book at #LandGrabbing2024

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

Via @andynortondev , this article basically reproduces the argument of the 1st year course I taught for 15 years. It would have been a required reading! A key point - development cooperation that builds state capacity - cannot be overstated

The Long, Slow Death of Global Development - American Affairs Journal

Most emerging markets have not found an engine of durable growth comparable to manufacturing—most have indeed grown over the last few decades, but dependence on services and commodities exports has...

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

Jun Borras of @Peasant_Journal and @issnl puts the cat among the pigeons, contrasting the views of Henry Bernstein and myself on the role of large-scale farms in a post-capitalist agrarian future, in his article "La Via Campesina"

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

I can't quite believe it, but overnight I passed 4000 followers. I find it hard to believe that so many people and organizations would want to be able to see what I am saying!

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

My keynote @WUR for the 75th anniversary of @RuralSociologyW - From peasant studies to critical agrarian studies via @YouTube

Haroon Akram-Lodhi - From peasant studies to critical agrarian studies

Keynote by Haroon Akram-Lodhi "From peasant studies to critical agrarian studies" at the occasion of the celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Rural Soc...

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

10 months

I've just finished this stupendous little book and highly recommend it for all scholar-activists both inside and outside the academy. It's not just for those engaged in critical agrarian studies

ICAS

@ICAS_Agrarian

10 months

#newbook The Initiative in Critical Agrarian Studies is pleased to share the 11th book of the Peasant Studies & Agrarian Change Series: "Scholar-Activism and Land Struggles" authored by Saturnino 'Jun' Borras & Jennifer Franco. #OpenAccess

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@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

Remember that these official FAO estimates are based on the calories needed for a sedentary life. I've never met a poor person who can be sedentary

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@AHAkramLodhi

4 years

Geat piece by @herdyshepherd1 : don't ask what's to eat, ask how it's grown

Enough with 'local' and 'organic'. We'll begin to eat well when we farm well | James Rebanks

We need to know how and where our food is grown and thereby take more responsibility for the planet

www.theguardian.com

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

Call for applications: Intensive Virtual Course in Gender-Sensitive Macroeconomic Modelling for Policy Analysis, June 28-July 16, 2021. Organized by the American University's @careworkeconomy project and Levy Economics Institute of Bard College @IAFFE @FeministEcon @FemEconSoas

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@AHAkramLodhi

2 months

The draft programme for the global #LandGrabbing2024 conference next week in Bogota is astonishing: @Peasant_Journal @TNInstitute @via_campesina @PLAASuwc @UWConline @IDS_UK @issnl

Full program draft (17.03.24) .xlsx

Día 1 Tue/Martes International Conference on Global Land Grabbing Conferencia Internacional sobre Acaparamiento Global de Tierras Universidad de los Andes Bogotá, Colombia 19-21 March, 2024 Draft...

docs.google.com

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@AHAkramLodhi

1 month

Leaving Bogota after 10 great days with friends old and new. But I think my strongest takeaway is that Colombia does not see itself as a settler-colonial state. Which it undoubtedly is, just like the land now known as Canada. Until next time ...

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@AHAkramLodhi

10 months

I'm half way through it and this book is just sensational. Download it now

ICAS

@ICAS_Agrarian

10 months

#newbook The Initiative in Critical Agrarian Studies is pleased to share the 11th book of the Peasant Studies & Agrarian Change Series: "Scholar-Activism and Land Struggles" authored by Saturnino 'Jun' Borras & Jennifer Franco. #OpenAccess

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@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

Unfortunately paywalled, John Harriss' obituary is absolutely excellent Michael Lipton, development economist, 1937 — 2023 - via @FT

Michael Lipton, development economist, 1937-2023

His field work and findings changed the discussion around solving the problem of poverty in low-income countries

www.ft.com

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

Today is my first seminar in a room with people in two years. It has felt like a lifetime - even though, because this is @SOAS , there is a good chance I will be taken apart piece by piece! Thanks, @AgrarianChange for organizing it

J of Agrarian Change

@AgrarianChange

2 years

On Thursday 3rd, we'll have another great Agrarian Change Seminar @AHAkramLodhi will make the argument that the contemporary agrarian question can be resolved through an agroecological agrarian transition Join us at @SOAS or online, free tickets here 👇

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@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

I am so very pleased that @NancyFolbre 's The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems finally arrived

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2 years

A piece of art created 17 years after Henry Bernstein asked the question

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@AHAkramLodhi

11 months

After pandemic-induced delays, I am pleased to say that this volume, in which I have a modest contribution, is finally coming out #OpenAccess from @Palgrave

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Jun Borras of @issnl holds his Colombian audience in the palm of his hand as he offers his diagnosis of the relationship between agrarian reform, justice and peace in the country #LandGrabbing2024

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1 year

If you are attending #COP15 in Montreal and are interested in the role of food system transformation in biodiversity restoration, why not come along on Friday evening to our side event? It promises to be lively! @MatthewSchnurr @JennClapp @laurenObaker @IPESfood

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"The social reproduction of surplus populations in the global South is the quintessential problem of our times" #LandGrabbing2024

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The pre-conference public seminar on agrarian reform, justice and peacebuilding is about to start #LandGrabbing2024

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2 years

This is a big, important story

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@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

Save the date! Global launch of the @CanDevStudies special issue on #COVID19 and the political economy of #globaldev on 10 March @SaraStevano @hannahbargawi @SOASDevelopment @CASID_ACEDI

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My latest: Contemporary pathogens and the capitalist world food system, in @CanDevStudies #globaldev #COVID19

Contemporary pathogens and the capitalist world food system

Zoonotic diseases like SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, are human bacterial and viral infections that originate in animals and which cross the species barrier. Over the ...

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Jun Borras' departure from @Peasant_Journal sees him offering an excellent, nuanced, celebratory laudatio of La Via Campesina, of which @NFUcanada is a member, on the occasion of its 30th anniversary. Well worth the read; it's #Openaccess

La Via Campesina – transforming agrarian and knowledge politics, and co-constructing a field: a...

La Via Campesina has revalorized agrarian politics, transformed knowledge politics, and co-constructed the field of Critical Agrarian Studies. It has shown the important role of agrarian movements ...

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@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

Today! I am looking forward to contributing to this #COP15 side event on biodiversity and the future of food systems with @IPESfood , @JennClapp , @laurenObaker , , @DalhousieU , @3rdworldnetwork , @WesternU , Room 513C, 18:15

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@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

My daughter set ChatGPT a task: to write a 500 word essay on the agrarian question with reference to me. Here is the result. I'm curious - if it were a student, how would you mark it? I know how I would

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@AHAkramLodhi

6 years

This is very true. Scholars from developing countries all too often know that models that do not recognize an agricultural constraint to growth fail to understand the structure of the economy. This literature is ignored in most #devecon training today #globaldev

Ingrid H. Kvangraven

@ingridharvold

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There are some important bastions of heterodox scholarship in the Global South, e.g. in India, Brazil, Argentina and China. As @haroom said, maybe they just don't ascribe to the Northern orthodoxy. To be inclusive of this scholarship we need to broaden the field of dev econ. 3/5

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@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

Final marks for the term submitted; my sabbatical begins. First stop, I hope: Lesotho

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

On 13 May celebrate 75 years of rural sociology @WUR

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

I came across this video of the late Nilufer Catagay speaking at the UN civil society conference. Little would I realize this would be the last time I saw her. Nilufer spent her life seeking to make the world more just. We in @IAFFE are not the only ones who have lost a light

dmuleicester

@dmuleicester

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Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, Ms Fatma Nilufer Cagatay, talks about gender inequalities in society at #UNNGO2018 #JoinTogether

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

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I have to say: this book by David Gilbert looks fantastic, and important

Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land

Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members of this remarkable movement have reclaimed...

www.ucpress.edu

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

On 11 May at 5 pm I will have the distinct honour of delivering the 8th Annual Ailsa McKay Memorial Lecture: '"What's love got to do with it": Gender and the productivity paradox in Scotland (and elsewhere)'. Register by clicking here:

8th Annual Ailsa McKay Memorial Lecture

What's love got to do with it: Gender and the productivity paradox in Scotland Professor A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

@ClayShentrup @BrankoMilan Disagree to both claims

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

This morning I think I can say that I am over my run-in with #COVID19 . Six not-fun days. But my case was like a very bad flu - something I will attribute, without a scientific basis, to having my booster last month #GetBoostedNow #GetVaccinatedNow

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

11 months

Canada receiving aid from South Africa

Ben Phillips

@benphillips76

11 months

Sometimes a crisis hits so hard that a country needs help from others to overcome it. That’s not one-way humanitarian saviourism, it’s international solidarity. 200 South African firefighters land in Edmonton, Canada to help fight the wildfire. Sound up 🔊

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

In the next five weeks I have five seminars, @KingsIntDev , @LSE_ID , @AgrarianChange at SOAS, @developmentuea and Manchester's @GlobalDevInst . Looking forward to them! @TrentUniversity #globaldev

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

In case this is no longer here in the next few days, I want to say how much I have learned from people on this platform, and thankfully I have never been trolled. I am also acutely aware of how many movements of resistance have used this platform. I for one will miss it

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

@m_bombardini Some of "us economists" saw it coming and said so at the time

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

11 months

"Class distinctions are thus becoming sharper, as those with land and capital hire the labour of others." John Sender argued this almost 40 years ago, and finally @TheEconomist wakes up - Rural Africans are finding work beyond their farms

Rural Africans are finding work beyond their farms

Land pressure and markets are transforming the countryside

www.economist.com

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

I am pleased to say that my latest article, "I will follow? Authoritarian populism, past and present" is now available from @Peasant_Journal

I will follow? Authoritarian populism, past and present

Scoones et al. [2018. “Emancipatory Rural Politics: Confronting Authoritarian Populism.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 45 (1): 1–20] suggests that the contemporary rural world can be characterized...

www.tandfonline.com

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

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After 2 years and 3 months, a full zero draft of my next book finally emerges, today. However, at 140,000 words, I admit that I have quite a bit of editing to do. Still, it's easier working with too much than working with too little

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

Jan Douwe van der Ploeg's fantastic "Peasants and the Art of Farming: A Chayanovian Manifesto," commissioned by @ICAS_Agrarian , is now a free ebook from @PracticalAction : . I highly recommend this book

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

1 year

My Boxing Day reread. Utterly fantastic, where is our John Berger for the social media age?

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

2 years

This is very sad to read: Abhijit Sen, Leading Economist of Indian Agriculture, Passes Away. His "Market failure and control of labour power" remains a classic. I only met him once. My deepest condolences to @Jayati1609 via @thewire_in

Abhijit Sen, Leading Economist of Indian Agriculture, Passes Away

Apart from teaching at JNU, he was a member of the Planning Commission from 2004-2014 and headed the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices, 1997-2000.

thewire.in

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

11 months

UBI is like land reform. Do it as a stand alone policy and it won't work. But comprehensive agrarian reform does work - and UBI nested within care-supportive public services that build capabilities would transform societies

Naomi Hossain

@nomhossain

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@jonathanglennie @AaronBastani If I had to choose, I’d go for strong public services, wouldn’t you? And might UBI divert from finding for public services? Justify ‘choice’ / privatization?

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

I am always quite emotional when the page proofs for a book are finished and, with that, it leaves my hands. As just happened

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi

@AHAkramLodhi

3 years

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics is a comprehensive and essential resource for students, researchers and practitioners. If you are working in a university, ask your library to order it. Congratulations to @gberik and @EbruKongar , the editors

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