
Principal Investigator: Katy Jane Gardner. Lead Organisation: University of Sussex
In-migrant workers in Bibiyana
Discordant Development: Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh
What happens when a vast multinational mining company operates a gas plant situated close to four densely populated villages in rural Bangladesh? How does its presence contribute to local processes of ‘development’? And what do corporate claims of ‘community engagement’ involve? Drawing from author Katy Gardner’s longstanding relationship with the area, Discordant Development reveals the complex and contradictory ways that local people attempt to connect to, and are disconnected by, foreign capital.
The oil company : partnership and the moralities of giving and receiving : corporate community engagement comes to Bangladesh
Elusive Partnerships: Gas extraction and CSR in Bangladesh

Land reform remains a key element in efforts to redress South Africa’s legacy of historic injustice, but is an arena of intense debate about the impact of farming scale on agricultural productivity and rural incomes.
Land reform and economic empowerment in sugarcane production in Nkomazi District, South Africa
A Farm Survey of Small-scale Sugarcane Growers in Nkomazi district, Mpumalanga province, South Africa.
The political economy of sugar in southern Africa
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