POLELUC

A POLitical Ecology of Land-Use Change (POLELUC)

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA 

 Organization address address: Campus UAB -BELLATERRA- s/n
city: CERDANYOLA DEL VALLES
postcode: 8193

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Queralt
Cognome: Gonzalez Matos
Email: send email
Telefono: 34935812854

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Spain [ES]
 Totale costo 100˙000 €
 EC contributo 100˙000 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG
 Funding Scheme MC-CIG
 Anno di inizio 2011
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2011-10-01   -   2015-10-28

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA

 Organization address address: Campus UAB -BELLATERRA- s/n
city: CERDANYOLA DEL VALLES
postcode: 8193

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Queralt
Cognome: Gonzalez Matos
Email: send email
Telefono: 34935812854

ES (CERDANYOLA DEL VALLES) coordinator 100˙000.00

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energy    latin    policy    selected    oil    socio    villages    musiasem    security    economic    social    grab    impacts    economists    countries    food    ecological    political    agrofuels    land    poleluc    governance    grabs   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'This ‘Political Ecology of Land-Use Change’ (POLELUC) focuses on the appropriation of large areas of land, the so-called ‘land grab’, for crops that are predominantly utilized for the production of agrofuels. These phenomena are related to increasing complexities in the governance of land and natural resources, and to discourses around food and energy security and climate change. ‘Land grabs’ and agrofuels production have become key analytical domains for agrarian political economists, political ecologists and ecological economists interested in examining if these processes translate into local and national economic benefits, reproduce inequalities in access to land and result in ecological impacts and trade-offs across ecosystem services, among others. The project proposed takes a cross-scale, multidisciplinary approach to ‘land grab’ and agrofuels production in three Latin American countries (Argentina, Paraguay and Guatemala), paying attention to governance processes and socio-ecological transformations in rural villages involved in oil palm, sugar cane and/or soy plantations. The project relies on traditional qualitative and quantitative methods from the social sciences, innovatively combined with a Multi-Scale Integrated Assessment of the Social Metabolism (MuSIASEM) in selected villages, to determine the biophysical and socio-economic impacts of plantantions and to draw effective comparisons across selected localities. POLELUC is a four-year extremely relevant project at a time that new research is highlighting an increasing number of ‘land grabs’ and the advancement of ‘agrofuels frontier’ in developing countries, and that perceptions of oil scarcity and energy and food security concerns shape investment flows and policy agendas. Project findings will inform academic debates on ‘land grabbing’ and agrofuels, develop further applications of MuSIASEM in this context and discuss the socio-ecological implications of the EU biofuels policy in Latin America.'

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