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SUMMARY:Biofuels and Marginal Lands: Interrogating the Land Use Change Imp
 acts of Jatropha Promotion in South India - Dr. Jenn Baka\,  Department of
  Geography and Environment\, London School of Economics and Political Scie
 nces
DTSTART:20140128T130000Z
DTEND:20140128T140000Z
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CONTACT:Elizabeth Blanchard
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Baka will examine the micro-level land use 
 impacts of India’s National Biofuel Program\, which restricts cultivatio
 n to ‘wastelands’\, an official government classification of marginal 
 lands. Through field work in South India using an industrial and political
  ecology framework\, she finds that India’s wastelands are not exactly m
 arginal: their existing land usage provides approximately three to 10 time
 s more useful energy than would the country’s proposed biodiesel system.
  She also finds that the process of defining\, classifying and developing 
 wastelands\, a government-sponsored program that began in the late 1970s\,
  is an inherently political process that obscures local land use practices
 . Collectively\, these factors have helped facilitate ‘land grabs’ in 
 rural Tamil Nadu\, a process that is dispossessing land users/owners and d
 ecreasing the ability of agrarian communities to self-provision.
LOCATION:Seminar Room
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