http://www.iias.nl/the-newsletter/newsletter-58-autumn-2011

Local crop or foreign commodity?
Guest editor Annelies Zoomers considers the food security debate in Asia, in the context of domestic and international land acquisitions intended to meet increasing demands for both food and (bio)energy. Various strategies, such as offshore farming, the creation of agro-hubs, and foreign investors, aim to increase food security, yet often have an adverse impact on local communities and their ecosystems.

CONTENTS

3 From the Director

THE STUDY ---------------------------------------

4-5 Maclaine Pont and the discovery of Bharada’s Hermitage - Amrit Gomperts, Arnoud Haag and Peter Carey
6-7 The Chinese century - Gregory Bracken
8-9 Shanghai under siege: letters and photographs of Karel Frederik Mulder - Louis Zweers
10 The cultural crossroads: St. Petersburg, Batavia, Amsterdam - Irina R. Katkova
11 Chinese logic and Chinese philosophy: reconstruction or integration? - Fenrong Liu and Jeremy Seligman
12-13 Power politics and the contested meaning of heritage: Nepal’s civil war (1996-2006) - Marloes van Houten
14-15 The making of Southeast Asian silicon valleys: the perspective of the geeks - Zane Kripe
16-17 Pyongyang goes back to the Party. Special feature page: The Opinion - Glyn Ford

THE FOCUS ---------------------------------------

19-20 Food security strategies in South and Southeast Asia - Annelies Zoomers 21 Rethinking China's 'land grabs' - Irna Hofman and Peter Ho
22-23 A new equation for oil palm - Paul Burgers and Ari Susanti
24-25 Food security and energy development in Vietnam - Pham Huu Ty, Tran Nam Tu and Guus van Westen
26-27 Land acquisitions by non-local actors - Men Prachvuthy and Guus van Westen
28-29 Forests and food security - Terry C.H. Sunderland

THE REVIEW
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18 New for review
31 Indigenous history: an antidote to the Zomia theory? - Eisel Mazard
32-33 Upward and downward mobility through migration: responses to an anthropological documentary on Indian youngsters in London - Mario Rutten, Sanderien Verstappen, and Isabelle Makay
34-35 Peripheral Philippines - Niels Mulder
36 Festschrift: Asia in three parts - Julia Read
36-37 Double feature - Nicholas Tarling
37 Powerplay - Andy Fuller
38-39 Lontar: found in translation. Special feature page: The Translator - Roy Voragen

THE NETWORK
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40-42 News from Asia
43 IIAS News
44 IIAS Research Projects
45 IIAS Fellows
46 ICAS
46 IIAS Outreach
47 IIAS Reports

THE PORTRAIT ---------------------------------------

48 George Chinnery comes home - Patrick Conner

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