
- Location
- Kortenaerkade 12, 's - Gravenhage
- Room
- I1-12
- Telephone
- 0704260669
- shegro@iss.nl
Profile
dr. (Tsegaye Moreda) TM Shegro
Tsegaye Moreda is an Assistant Professor of Agrarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, The Hague) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a founding member of Young African Researchers in Agriculture (YARA) network based at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. At ISS, he is a member of Political Ecology Research Group and teaching team of the Major in Agrarian, Food and Environmental Studies (AFES). The graduate courses that he has been teaching…
Tsegaye Moreda is an Assistant Professor of Agrarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, The Hague) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a founding member of Young African Researchers in Agriculture (YARA) network based at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. At ISS, he is a member of Political Ecology Research Group and teaching team of the Major in Agrarian, Food and Environmental Studies (AFES). The graduate courses that he has been teaching – together with many senior scholars at the ISS – include Political Economy/Ecology of Agriculture and Environment (ISS-4150) (with, among others, Dr. Julien-Francois Gerber, Prof. Jun Borras, and Prof. Murat Arsel) and Politics of Agrarian Transformation (ISS-4240) (with Prof. Borras, and Dr. Oane Visser). He also teaches a graduate course on the politics of agrarian transformation and development in the College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) at China Agricultural University in Beijing. He has also previously taught various undergraduate courses in Ethiopia, including political geography, economic geography, development theory and practice, and research methods.
His research interests are in the politics of agrarian transformation and natural resources governance (land, water, forests, sub-soil minerals) – examined in the era of the global resource rush (land grabbing, the rise of extractivism, agro-extractivism, large-scale development interventions, neoliberal developmentalism) and environmental and climate change (focusing on narratives of and responses to them, including politics around mitigation and adaptation) – with special emphasis on understanding how contemporary politics around natural resources links to broader questions of social, economic, political and environmental justice. He focuses on understanding the role and location of land politics in global, regional and national trajectories. He also has work and interest in the various forms of political reactions by poor people towards dynamic changes in the political economy (land/property, labour, income, reproduction) of natural resources, including in studying – and at the same time, working with – social movements. Transversal themes in his interest in and treatment of all these issues are conflict, power and political contestations across social classes and identity politics, mediated by and through the state. It is in this context that he also looks into converging social movements partly in reaction to the parallel and overlapping processes of global resource rush and climate change mitigation narratives: agrarian movements, environmental movements, fishers' movements, food sovereignty movements. He works and continues to hone his intellectual skills along the tradition of scholar-activism. His regional focus is on Sub-Saharan Africa.
He is currently deputy coordinator of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant awarded project "Commodity & Land Rushes and Regimes: Reshaping Five Spheres of Global Social Life (RRUSHES-5)" led by Professor Jun Borras. This five-year (2019-2024) research project studies recent transactions in land and land-use change and how these impact the general situation around the issues of food, climate change politics, geopolitics, labour and migration, and state-society relations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The project mainly focuses on Colombia, Ethiopia and Myanmar.
(የምርምር ፕሮጀክት ርዕስ:- የግብርና እና ተዛማጅ ዘርፎች ምርቶች/ሸቀጦች፣ የመሬት ወረራ/ቅምያ እና የመሬት አስተዳደር ስርዓት፡ በአምስት አለም አቀፉዊ ተያያዥ የማህበራዊ ጉዳዮች ላይ ያላቸው ተጽህኖ/እንድምታ (RRUSHES-5) (የምግብ ዋስትና ፣ የአየር ንብረት ለውጥ፣ የሰራተኛ/ፍልሰት ጉዳዮች፣ የመንግስት–ዜጎች ግንኙነት/የዜግነት ጉዳዮች እና የጂኦፖለቲካዊ ጉዳዮች ናቸው፡፡)
He is also a member of an ongoing action research project on governance instruments and the intersection between climate change politics, resource grabbing, conflict and political contestations in Mali (with Via Campesina's CNOP) and Nigeria (with Friends of the Earth's ERA), funded by IDRC (2018-2020) and anchored by FIAN International.
Previously, he was a lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Gondar in Ethiopia. He also held a position of community service coordination in the Research and Community Service Office of the same university.
He holds a B.A. in Geography and Environmental Studies and M.A. in Development Studies from Addis Ababa University, and completed a Ph.D. in Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He also went to a summer school at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UK.
- T. Moreda (2018). Contesting conventional wisdom on the links between land tenure security and land degradation: Evidence from Ethiopia. Land Use Policy, 77, 75-83. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.04.058 [go to publisher's site]
- T. Moreda (2018). The right to food in the context of large-scale land investment in Ethiopia. Third World Quarterly, 39 (7), 1326-1347. doi: 10.1080/01436597.2018.1460199
- S.M. Borras, T. Moreda, A. Alonso Fradejas & Z. Brent (2018). Converging social justice issues and movements: implications for political actions and research. Third World Quarterly, 39 (7), 1227-1246. doi: 10.1080/01436597.2018.1491301
- T. Moreda (2016). Large-scale land acquisitions, state authority and indigenous local communities: insights from Ethiopia. Third World Quarterly, 1-19. doi: 10.1080/01436597.2016.1191941
- T. Moreda & M. Spoor (2015). The politics of large-scale land acquisitions in Ethiopia: state and corporate elites and subaltern villagers. Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 36 (2), 224-240. doi: 10.1080/02255189.2015.1049133
- T. Moreda (2015). Listening to their silence? : the political reaction of affected communities to large-scale land acquisitions: insights from Ethiopia. Journal of Peasant Studies, 42 (3-4), 517-539. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2014.993621
- T. Moreda (2019). The right to food in the context of large-scale land investment in Ethiopia. In T. Moreda, S.M. Borras Jr., A. Alonso-Fradejas & Z.W. Brent (Eds.), Converging Social Justice Issues and Movements (ThirdWorlds). London: Routledge
- S.M. Borras, T. Moreda, A. Alonso-Fradejas & Z. Brent (2019). Converging social justice issues and movements: implications for political actions and research. In T. Moreda, S.M. Borras, A. Alonso-Fradejas & Z. Brent (Eds.), Converging Social Justice Issues and Movements. London: Routledge
- T. Moreda (2018). Listening to their silence? The political reactions of affected communities to large-scale land acquisitions: insights from Ethiopia. In M. Edelman, R. Hall, S.M. Borras, I. Scoones, B. White and W. Wolford (Ed.), Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions ‘From Below’ (pp. 51-74). London; New York: Routledge
- T. Moreda (2017). Local Resistance to Large-Scale Agricultural Land Acquisitions in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Ethiopia. In D. Kapoor (Ed.), Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession: Local Resistance in South & East Asia, the Pacific and Africa (pp. 275-295). London: Zed Books
- T. Moreda, S.M. Borras, A. Alonso-Fradejas & Z. Brent (Ed.). (2019). Converging Social Justice Issues and Movements. (Third World Quarterly Books). London: Routledge
- T. Moreda, S.M. Borras, A. Alonso Fradejas & Z. Brent (Eds.). (2018-2018) Third World Quarterly, 39 (7)(Special Issue: Converging Social Justice Issues and Movements).
- M. Spoor & T. Moreda (2016). Rural development and the future of small-scale family farms revisited. (Preprints, Rural Transformations Technical Paper, no 3). Rome: FAO
- R. Hall, Z. Brent, J. Franco, M. Isaacs & T. Moreda (2015). A Toolkit for Participatory Action Research: Guiding note for the IDRC-funded FIAN project: Bottom-up accountability initiatives and Large Scale Land Acquisitions (LSLAs) in Africa. : FIAN
- T. Moreda (2013). Postponed Local Concerns? Implications of Land Acquisitions for Indigenous Local Communities in Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State, Ethiopia. (Preprints, LDPI Working Papers, no 13). The Hague: Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI)
- T. Moreda (2016, november 18). The political economy of the land-livelihoods nexus in an era of ecological change and the global land rush : access to land, land conflict and large-scale land acquisitions in Ethiopia. EUR (Den Haag) Prom./coprom.: prof.dr. M.N. Spoor & prof.dr. S.M. Borras.
4240 Politics of Agrarian Transformation
- Title
- 4240 Politics of Agrarian Transformation
- Year
- 2020
4240 Politics of Agrarian Transformation
- Title
- 4240 Politics of Agrarian Transformation
- Year
- 2020
3105 Research Paper Preparation
- Title
- 3105 Research Paper Preparation
- Year
- 2020
5401 Research Paper
- Title
- 5401 Research Paper
- Year
- 2020
4150 Political Economy
- Title
- 4150 Political Economy
- Year
- 2020
Assistant Professor
- University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- School
- International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
- Department
- Academic staff unit
- Telephone
- 0704260669