**About the Editors**

**Tobias Haller** is Professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He studied social anthropology, geography and sociology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland and also graduated there. He did research on institutional change in agriculture and common- pool resources management in Cameroon and Zambia, and led several comparative research projects on the management of the commons in floodplains in Mali, Cameroon, Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana; on land, water and green grabbing with impact on gender relations in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Morocco, Ghana, Tanzania and Malawi; on food systems in Kenya and Bolivia; on social and environmental impacts of oil and mining companies worldwide; and on the management of the commons in Switzerland and on constitutionality (participatory bottom-up institution building processes).

**Fabian K ¨aser** holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Bern, Switzerland. He studies social anthropology and sustainable development at the University of Bern. He did research on present-day glocal small-scale farming in Kenya and analysed social impacts of land and resilience grabbing in Sierra Leone. During his Ph.D., he worked in an international transdisciplinary research team analysing the sustainability of the food systems in Kenya and Bolivia. Fabian Kaser is ¨ Head of the Swiss Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries of the Swiss Academy of Sciences.

**Mariah Ngutu** is a research associate and part time lecturer at the Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya. She studied Anthropology at the University of Nairobi and graduated with a Ph.D. in 2018. Her thesis focused on the actors and institutions in agro-industrial food systems in Kenya (export horticulture) and articulated common pool resource (water and land) grabbing, the bargaining power positions and gender relations of the different actors involved in the production of food within the agro-industrial global food value chain. Mariah continues to engage in research projects to explore the anti-politics machine of neo-liberal agrarian development and local responses in Kenya.

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