Social Movements, Land Tenure, and Power-to-Rights-Approach

I’m making quite decent progress with my Honour’s Thesis… I’m done with my first chapter, which is now under review by my supervisor. I’m surprised though by the quantity of the chapter. I shouldn’t be, really, it’s about 15 pages and covers the general description of ‘land grabs’ (ie., large-scale long-term foreign agricultural investment), why they predominantly occur in the Least Developed Countries, how typical acquisitions and procedures of current deals look like, summarises the types of partnerships (government/parastatal/private and many linkages), and finally goes on to explain the theoretical framework used to analyse case studies: the Human Rights-Based Approach (widened to what I termed the ‘Power-to-Rights-Approach’), Post-Development Theory, and the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach. But then again, it’s just one of five chapters…

Surveys – do YOU live/work in a ‘Least Developed Country’? Help needed
Now for my next two chapters (threats and opportunities) I will need to make use of my surveys and interviews and case studies. Therefore, if you work or live in a country with this classification (see link above) please help me! The more information I can gather the more credible it will be, the more it can be seen as a global phenomenon displacing and destroying local landholders and their and their families’ livelihoods (this being one of my hypotheses).
If you are willing to participate, please contact me here or by sending me an email to d.i.keller [at] students.uu.nl, comment on this post, or make use of facebook.