Bedi, Heather , Alam, Shamma , and Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab

Agricultural lands are vital to food security, which is imperative to the “no global hunger” objective of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Global food security is at risk from climatic change related increased...

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Nielsen, Kenneth Bo, Bedi, Heather Plumridge, and Da Silva, Solano

The Goa Requisition and Acquisition of Property Bill, 2017 and the Goa Compensation to the Project Affected Persons and Vesting of Land in the Government Bill, 2017 are the latest additions to the state government’s arsenal of...

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Calvão, Filipe, Ankenbrand, Christina, Ros–Tonen, Mirjam A.F., and Beevers, Michael D.

Poor governance of extractive resources has long been acknowledged as a risk to human development and sustainable peace in primary commodity-producing countries across the Global South (Beevers, 2015;Collier et al., 2003;Iguma...

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Schipanski, Meagan E., Barbercheck, Mary, Tooker, John F., White, Charlie, Douglas, Margaret R., Finney, Denise M., Haider, Kristin, Kaye, Jason P., Kemanian, Armen R., Mortensen, David A., and Ryan, Matthew R.

Cropping systems that provide ecosystem services beyond crop production are gaining interest from farmers, policy makers and society at large, yet we lack frameworks to evaluate and manage for multiple ecosystem services. Using...

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Nielsen, Kenneth Bo, Bedi, Heather Plumridge, and Silva, Solano Da

The Great Goa Land Grab charts how shifting state governments, politicians, and corporations have acquired large tracts of land in the Indian coastal state of Goa for a wide range of projects, including industrial enclaves,...

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Bedi, Heather Plumridge

The politics of knowledge production reveals the exercise of power in societies, with narratives a key means to project national image. This article examines narratives used by Government of India representatives to frame...

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Bedi, Heather Plumridge

The context for land resistance in liberalising India is dynamic. As the state promotes capital investment, lines between public and private are blurred. Land is central to these efforts, as new industries, mines, large-scale...

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Bedi, Heather Plumridge

The world’s most populous democracy, India, has taken steps to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. However, injustices related to nascent large-scale renewable efforts in India provide early warning that...

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Da Silva, Solano, Nielsen, Kenneth Bo, and Bedi, Heather Plumridge

This article seeks to understand the role of land use planning in India's neoliberal regime of dispossession. Analyzing the relationship between planning and land dispossession in the state of Goa, we view planning processes...

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Douglas, Margaret R. and Tooker, John F.

Background:
Seed-applied neonicotinoids are widely used in agriculture, yet their effects on non-target species remain incompletely understood. One important group of non-target species is arthropod natural enemies...

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