Annelies Zoomers

Annelies Zoomers is a Human Geographer and Professor of International Development Studies (IDS) at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and chair of the IS-academy on land governance. After finishing her PhD in 1988, she worked for the Netherlands Economic Institute (Rotterdam) and the Royal Tropical Institute (Amsterdam). Between 1995 and 2007, she was Associate Professor at the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (Amsterdam), and was Professor of International Migration at the Radboud University (Nijmegen) between 2005 and 2009. She has published extensively about sustainable livelihoods, land policies and the impact of privatization, tourism and international migration.

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  • The Global Land Grab

    Beyond the Hype

    Edited by Mayke Kaag and Annelies Zoomers     March 2014

    The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest in the increasingly contentious issue of “land grabbing” – the large-scale acquisition of land in the Global South.

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