Locher M. 2015: The ‘Global Land Rush’, Local Land Rights and Power Relations: European Forestry Investments in Tanzania. Public defence of the PhD thesis (invitation), University of Zurich, 26.05.2015
Locher M. 2014: „How come others are selling our land?“ Power relations and local land rights in the global land rush: two European forestry companies in Tanzania. Colloquium „Research for Development (R4D)- Theoretical Approaches and Field Studies“, ETH Zürich, 08.04.2014
Locher M. 2014: Land Grabbing: Globales Phänomen mit lokalen Auswirkungen. Nachhaltigkeitswoche 2014 an der Universität Zürich und ETH Zürich, University of Zurich, 05.03.2014
Locher M. 2013: „Investors are good, if they follow the rules“ – Power relations and local perceptions in the case of two European forestry companies in Tanzania. Land Rush or Development by Investment? The „Land Grab“ Debate in Africa, Conference organised by the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS) in collaboration with the Institute of Social Anthropology and the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland, 11.10.2013 (7.9 MB) – Interview in the SRF 4 News (Swiss radio station, in German)
Locher M., Müller-Böker U. 2013: Forestry companies as partners for rural development? Conflicts and power relations in the case of two European investors in Tanzania. ECAS 2013 – 5th European Conference on African Studies: African dynamics in a multipolar world, ISCTE Lisbon, Portugal, 27.-29.06.2013 (1.9 MB)
Locher M. 2012: Transnational land acquisitions and local livelihoods in Tanzania. Poster presentation at Site Visit of the Review Panel of the NCCR North-South, Meiringen, Switzerland, 23.08.2012 (110 KB)
Locher M. 2012: ‚Land grabs‘ in Tansania – Fokus auf Akteure, Interessen, Strategien. GAE (Geographischer Arbeitskreis Entwicklungstheorien) Tagung 2012: Ländliche Entwicklung im Fokus – Neue Herausforderungen und Dynamiken im globalen Kontext, FU Berlin, Germany, 29.06.-01-07.2012
Locher M. 2012: International forestry companies: problematic partners for local people. Two European investors in Tanzania. Poster presentation at Planet under Pressure conference, London, 26.-29.03.2012 and at International Workshop on Large-scale Land Acquisitions, GIGA, Hamburg, Germany, 11.05.2012 (3.9 MB)
Locher M. 2011: ‚How come others are selling our land?‘ Customary Land Rights, Rural Livelihoods and Foreign Land Acquisition in the Case of a UK-based Forestry Company in Tanzania. International Conference on Global Land Grabbing, organised by the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) in collaboration with the Journal of Peasant Studies and hosted at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 06.-08.04.2011 (draft conference paper 258 KB, article in The Economist, presentation 1.9 MB)
Locher M. 2010: Transnational Land Deals and Local Livelihoods in Tanzania. Poster presentation at Site Visit of the Review Panel of the NCCR North-South, Bahr Dar, Ethiopia, 12.09.2010 (352 KB)
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