Ian Scoones is Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton UK. He is an agricultural ecologist by original training but today works on questions of policy around land, agriculture, and agrarian change, mostly in Africa. He is the principal investigator of the ERC-funded PASTRES programme (http: //pastres.org).
Saturnino M. Borras Jr. is Professor of Agrarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Nedtherlands; Distinguished Professor at China Agricultural University, Beijing, and Associate of the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute.
Amita Baviskar is Dean, Faculty and Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University, Sonipat, India. Her research and teaching address the cultural politics of environment and development in rural and urban India. She focuses on the role of social inequality and identities in natural resource conflicts.
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