LANDac | Leave No One Behind: Setting the Land Agenda to 2030

LANDac and partners are excited to announce the Annual International Conference 2017:

LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND: SETTING THE LAND AGENDA TO 2030

29th and 30th June 2017

Muntgebouw, Utrecht, the Netherlands

LANDac’s Annual International Conference 2017 will look back over the decade since the land grab “hype” began, analysing the processes of transformations that have taken place in those locations where investments have been made and revisiting our understanding of the implications of these investment flows for food security, rural livelihoods and local development. We will also look forward in assessing new challenges in the field, such as land governance in the context of climate change and increasing urbanisation, and land in relation to the SDGs, using existing knowledge to set the land agenda to 2030 and ensure no one is left behind.

Themes will be arranged around the following SDGs, where land governance is a particularly relevant factor:

Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

For more information, see: landac-annual-conference-2017-save-the-date

Photo credit: Roberto Rocco, TU Delft