About

This presentation focuses on the methodological approaches used to address the "land issue" in the Canadian Prairies, a region where over 70% of Canada's total agricultural land is located. The results, benefits and challenges of using land title data and Geographic Information Systems software to analyse the extent of land grabbing, farm consolidation and farmland concentration, which are having profound impacts on young farmers, food system sustainability, climate change and democracy, will be discussed.


Programme

14:30 - 14:35 | Introduction and Welcome - Rita Calvário
14:35 - 15:00 | Presentation by Annette A. Desmarais
15:00 - 16:00 | Discussion and debate


Bio note

Annette Aurélie Desmarais is a Canadian researcher in Human Rights, Social Justice and Food Sovereignty at the University of Manitoba. She is the author of La Vía Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants (2007), translated into several languages. She is also co-editor of Food Sovereignty: Reconnecting Food, Nature and Community (2010), Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems (2011), and Public Policy for Food Sovereignty: Social Movements and the State (2017). Desmarais is the editor of Frontline Farmers: How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates our New Food Future (2019). Her research focuses on agricultural change and the struggles for food sovereignty.