Laura Kmoch | Global Land Programme

Who We Are

Laura

Kmoch

Postdoc

University of Kassel

Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences

Section of Social-Ecological Interactions in Agricultural Systems

D-37213 Witzenhausen

Germany

Themes

Land governance, Land change trade-offs for ecosystem services and biodiversity , Land management systems, Land use and conflict

News

October 5, 2021

Neglect paves the way for dispossession: The politics of ‘last frontiers’ in Brazil and Myanmar

A new article in World Development shows how neglect is critical to imaginatively frame regions as “empty” places of possibility, excluding local actors economically from development and politically from governance initiatives.