Alice Beban

Senior Lecturer - School of People, Environment and Planning; Massey University

Alice Beban holds a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University (New York), and a Masters in Development Studies from Massey. Her research addresses land rights, agricultural production and gender concerns to understand people’s changing relationships with land. Recent research investigates ‘land grabs’ and redistributive land reform in Cambodia, cross-border migration of smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia, organic rice production, and methodological approaches in feminist political ecology. She also works with community activist groups in Cambodia to strengthen people’s access to land, and previously worked with Global Focus Aotearoa (New Zealand) and the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (Cambodia).
 

Alice