INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:

Land accumulation in the former Soviet Union

and beyond:

Global investors and local communities

The Center for Agricultural Studies, the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration,

Intercenter, the MoscowSchool of Social and Economic Sciences

(Moscow, Russia)

Department Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies,RadboudUniversity(Nijmegen, theNetherlands)

International Institute of Social Studies of ErasmusUniversity

(Rotterdam/The Hague, the Netherlands)

27th-28th October 2011

PROGRAMME:

October 27

10.00 -10.15Introductionby Teodor Shanin, professorat the University of Manchester, rector at the MoscowSchool of Social andEconomic Sciences,fellow of the Russian Academy for Agricultural Science

Theme:Agroholdings, Global investors and land-acquisitions

10.15- 11.30

Gustav Wetterling, member of the Board of Directors of Agro-Invest Group, a subsidiary of the Swedish Agroholding Black Earth Farming (the biggest foreign agrocompany in Russia), Moscow, Russia. Presentation: "Russian agriculture from a position of a foreign investor"

Stefan Duerr, president of the Russian-German EkoNiva Company (one of the biggest agroholding in Russia).Moscow, Russia. Presentation: to be confirmed.

11.30-11.45 – coffee break

11.45-13.40

VasilyUzun, head of the Agricultural Reform Department ofthe All-Russian Institute of Agrarian Problems and Informatics, named after AANikonov, Moscow, Russia. Presentation: to be confirmed.

Oane Visser & Natalia Mamonova, RadboudUniversityNijmegen, the Netherlands. Presentation: “The land rush in Russia: Exploring investors’ land acquisition strategiesand their consequences”

13.40-14.30 – lunch break

14.30 – 16.00

Olga Fadeeva, researcher at theSocial Problems Department of the Institute of Economicsand Industrial Engineering of Russian Academy of Sciences.Moscow, Russia. Presentation: “Relationshipbetween the majoragriculturalinvestorsand rural communities inthe West-Siberian regions”

NataliaShagayda,researcher at the Institute of Agrarian Problems of the RussianAcademy for Agricultural Science. Moscow, Russia. Presentation: “Institutional prerequisitesto the landlessnessof peasantsafter the land privatization”.

16.00 – 16.15 – coffee break

16.15 – 18.00

Jouko Nikula & Leo Granberg, Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Presentation: “Theglobal food crisisandchanges in the Russianagriculturalregulation”

Tatyana Nefedova,researcher at the Institute of Geographyof RussianAcademy of Sciences. Moscow, Russia. Presentation: “Large enterprisesand rural communitiesinthe StavropolTerritory”

October 28

Theme:Social movements, peasants’ rights, and land govermance

10.00 – 11.30

Andrew Martyn,researcher at the National University of Bioresources and Nature Utilization of Ukraine.Kiev, Ukraine. Presentation:“Land market,land tenure and guarantees of land rightsin Ukraine”

Max Spoor, professor of Development Studies (in particular regarding economies in transition) at the International Institute of Social Studies.The Hague/ErasmusUniversity.Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Presentation:“Landgovernance and rural civil society: experience from post-Soviet countries and beyond”.

Vyacheslav Kozlov, professor at the Russian State Agrarian UniversityMTAA
namedafterK.A.Timiryazev.Moscow, Russia. Presentation:"Consulting support for the sustainable developmentinruralareas".

11.45 – 12.00 – coffee break

12.00-14.00

Oane Visser & Natalia Mamonova, RadboudUniversity.Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Presentation: “Large-scale land acquisitions in Russia and Ukraine. A study of rural social movements and land conflicts”.

Tamara Semenova,vice-chairman of the Central ExecutiveCommittee of Krestyansky Front (Russian peasant movement). Presentation: “Land rights deprivation in Russia and the protection of these rights by Krestyansky Front” (Moscow, Russia)

14.00 – 14.30 – lunch break

14.30 – 16.00

AndrewKoshil, president of the Association"Land Unionof Ukraine", Kiev, Ukraine. Presentation: “Formation of thecivilizedland marketin Ukraine. Interactionsbetween the Association (Land Union of Ukraine), state, investors and civilians”.

Vera Bolotova,head of the Andrewsky rural municipality of the Okhanskdistrictof the Perm region.Presentation: “Landaccumulation in the Okhanskdistrictof the Permregion. The attitude of rural dwellers to this process”

16.00 – 16.15 – coffee break

16.15 – 18.00

Lubov Ovchintseva, senior researcher at the All-Russian Institute of Agrarian Problems and Informatics, named after AANikonov.Moscow, Russia.Presentation:“Datchniks (summer residents)of Russia:problemsof legislationand investment”.

AlexanderNikulin,director of the Center for Agricultural Studies of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.Moscow, Russia. Presentation: “The social and economicpoliciesof agriculturalholdings:the attitude ofruralcommunitiesto them in different regions of Russia”.

18.30-20.00 fourchette

Note: the programme mayslightly change. The complete list of presentations will be available at the first day of the conference