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2013.
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Scholars, practitioners and activists generally agree that investor interest in land has climbed sharply, although they differ about what to call this phenomenon and how to analyse it. This introduction discusses several contested definitional, conceptual, methodological and political issues in the land grab debate. The initial 'making sense' period drew sweeping conclusions from large databases, rapid-appraisal fieldwork and local case studies. Today research examines financialisation of land, 'water grabbing', 'green grabbing' and grabbing for industrial and urbanisation projects, and a substantial literature challenges key assumptions of the early discussion (the emphasis on foreign actors in Africa and on food and biofuels production, the claim that local populations are inevitably displaced or negatively affected). The authors in this collection, representing a diversity of approaches and backgrounds, argue the need to move beyond the basic questions of the 'making sense' period of the debate and share a common commitment to connecting analyses of contemporary land grabbing to its historical antecedents and legal contexts and to longstanding agrarian political economy questions concerning forms of dispossession and accumulation, the role of labour and the impediments to the development of capitalism in agriculture. They call for more rigorous grounding of claims about impacts, for scrutiny of failed projects and for (re)examination of the longue durée, social differentiation, the agency of contending social classes and forms of grassroots resistance as key elements shaping agrarian outcomes.
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149797
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Over the past five decades, India has progressed to create one of the largest national space programs in the world, delivering space-based technology to solve the problems of man and society. The present work provides an overview of current trends regarding industry participation in the national space program of India. While insight into industry participation and upstream activity is provided in the space transportation and development of satellite systems, commercial aspects of satellite communication services, use of geospatial data, and navigation and timing services are addressed as a part of the downstream applications. Specific recommendations to expand the footprint of the participation of Indian industry in the utilization of space technology nationally with possible expansion internationally are provided herein for space program managers and policymakers for both the upstream and downstream activities.
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