Foreign Policy in Focus states: Governments and corporations looking to outsource food and energy more directly themselves are promoting a new wave of land acquisitions, also known as "land grabs." This Forum is for discussion of "the global land grab." Websites with pertinent information include: Foreign Policy in Focus, http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6201; Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab: http://farmlandgrab.org; International Land Coalition: http://www.landcoalition.org Let us include in our discussion consideration of how the land value capture policy can address the issues and concerns presented by the global land grab.

This forum enables people from India to focus on particular land rights concerns of India's cities and regions and to communicate with each other to help build land rights and land value capture movements in India.

For students from Kenya.

For students of the course from the Pacific region.