CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: LANDac Annual International Conference 2017
Leave No One Behind: Setting the Land Agenda to 2030
29th and 30th June 2017
Muntgebouw, Utrecht, the Netherlands
***Extended deadline***
We are pleased and excited to announce that we are now accepting submissions for our Annual International Conference 2017 until 28th February 2017!
Key notes including:
Eric Sheppard – UCLA
Helga Leitner – UCLA
Duncan Pruett – Oxfam in Myanmar
And with contributions from:
Danielle Hirsch – Both ENDS
Future Deltas – Utrecht University
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.
The 2017 conference takes the all-encompassing SDGs as a starting point to explore how land governance can contribute to meeting these targets, and ultimately help to end poverty in all its forms everywhere (Goal 1). Providing people with secure and equal access to land is fundamental in realising this objective, and is particularly relevant in the Goals that will be further explored in this conference.
Topics highlighted during the conference will include: food security; infrastructure development; displacement, migration and mobility; compensation and resettlement; cities and urban expansion; inclusive development; conflict and competing claims; natural resources and environmental protection; gender and generation; ;and administration and technologies; and climate change and resilience, among others.
Submission guidelines
Abstracts of a maximum of 300 words must be submitted in English, via email to landacconference2017@gmail.com. Word format is preferred.
To submit a panel proposal, please send a panel outline (following the abstract guidelines) plus the names of at least 4 panellists and the working titles of their contributions.
An impartial selection committee will review submissions. Successful applicants will be notified by 31st March 2017.
LANDac welcomes innovative and original ideas. So, if you have other suggestions for materials to present or exhibit at the conference – such as short films, interactive websites, photos, posters – please contact the organisers at the above address.
Submissions which do not follow these guidelines will not be considered.
For more information about the conference and abstract submission procedure, see the call-for-abstracts-landac-annual-international-conference-2017.
The conference will be followed by the Annual LANDac Summer School “Land Governance for Development“.
Please note, registration for the conference will open in early March. Please check back for more information then.
Last Updated: 15th January 2020 by Gemma
LANDac | Annual International Conference 2017
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: LANDac Annual International Conference 2017
Leave No One Behind: Setting the Land Agenda to 2030
29th and 30th June 2017
Muntgebouw, Utrecht, the Netherlands
***Extended deadline***
We are pleased and excited to announce that we are now accepting submissions for our Annual International Conference 2017 until 28th February 2017!
Key notes including:
Eric Sheppard – UCLA
Helga Leitner – UCLA
Duncan Pruett – Oxfam in Myanmar
And with contributions from:
Danielle Hirsch – Both ENDS
Future Deltas – Utrecht University
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.
The 2017 conference takes the all-encompassing SDGs as a starting point to explore how land governance can contribute to meeting these targets, and ultimately help to end poverty in all its forms everywhere (Goal 1). Providing people with secure and equal access to land is fundamental in realising this objective, and is particularly relevant in the Goals that will be further explored in this conference.
Topics highlighted during the conference will include: food security; infrastructure development; displacement, migration and mobility; compensation and resettlement; cities and urban expansion; inclusive development; conflict and competing claims; natural resources and environmental protection; gender and generation; ;and administration and technologies; and climate change and resilience, among others.
Submission guidelines
Abstracts of a maximum of 300 words must be submitted in English, via email to landacconference2017@gmail.com. Word format is preferred.
To submit a panel proposal, please send a panel outline (following the abstract guidelines) plus the names of at least 4 panellists and the working titles of their contributions.
An impartial selection committee will review submissions. Successful applicants will be notified by 31st March 2017.
LANDac welcomes innovative and original ideas. So, if you have other suggestions for materials to present or exhibit at the conference – such as short films, interactive websites, photos, posters – please contact the organisers at the above address.
Submissions which do not follow these guidelines will not be considered.
For more information about the conference and abstract submission procedure, see the call-for-abstracts-landac-annual-international-conference-2017.
The conference will be followed by the Annual LANDac Summer School “Land Governance for Development“.
Please note, registration for the conference will open in early March. Please check back for more information then.
Last Updated: 15th January 2020 by Gemma
GLTN | Vacancy: GLTN consultant to support phase 3 strategy document
The GLTN Secretariat is recruiting a consultant to support in the development of a strategy for the GLTN Phase 3 and prepare a draft programme document for its implementation within the 2018-2023 time frame.
The consultancy (P5 level equivalent) is home-based with missions as required and the duration is 60 days spread over 6 months.
The complete Vacancy Announcement is available here on the GLTN website: Support for the GLTN Phase 3 Strategy Development
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Gemma
LANDac | Book of abstracts available now: Climate change interventions as a source of conflict, competing claims and new mobilities
LANDac in collaboration with IDS Utrecht University and NWO will hold a conference on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th November, in Utrecht, on “Climate change interventions as a source of conflict, competing claims and new mobilities”.
The conference book of abstracts can be accessed here: landac-nwo-ccmcc-and-uu-ids-book-of-abstracts
For further information, see the events page and check out the programme here: landac-nwo-ccmcc-and-ids-uu-conference-programme
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Gemma
LANDac | Programme – Climate change interventions as a source of conflict, competing claims, and new mobilities
Available now!
The full programme for the LANDac, Utrecht University and NWO organised conference.
landac-nwo-ccmcc-and-ids-uu-conference-programme
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Gemma
LANDac | Climate change interventions as a source of conflict, competing claims and new mobilities: Register now!
Registration is now open for the NWO CCMCC, LANDac, and IDS-UU conference:
CLIMATE CHANGE INTERVENTIONS AS A SOURCE OF CONFLICT, COMPETING CLAIMS AND NEW MOBILITIES: INCREASING THE RESILIENCE OF COMMUNITIES IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
24 and 25 November 2016, Utrecht, the Netherlands
With contributions from:
David Dodman IIED
Janani Vivekananda International Alert
Joyeeta Gupta University of Amsterdam
To register, please complete and return this form to landac.geo@uu.nl:
registration-form-landac-and-ccmcc-conference
For practical information check:
nwo-ccmcc-landac-and-ids-uu-practical-information-for-participants
For more information on the conference, visit http://www.landgovernance.org/landac-and-nwo-ccmcc-conference/
Last Updated: 15th January 2020 by Gemma
IASC Conference 2017 | Extended deadline for submitting abstracts
The International Association for the Study of the Commons will be hosting their XVIth Biennial Conference “Practicing the commons: Self-governance, cooperation, and institutional change” in Utrecht, 10-14 July 2017.
The organising committee has recently extended the deadline for submitting abstracts until 1st of November 2016.
The IASC is the world’s leading professional organization for the interdisciplinary study of commons, common-pool resources, and other resources that are (or could be) held or used collectively by communities, both in developing and developed countries. The association is devoted to understanding and improving institutions for the management and governance of such resources. The IASC is open to both academic scholars as well as expert practitioners.
The conference will focus on examples from all over the world, but will also pay much attention on the significant current-day developments on common-pool resources and cooperatives within the Netherlands (such as knowledge commons, energy cooperatives, care cooperatives, urban commons, and other citizens’ initiatives), not only by inviting representatives of those Dutch initiatives to join as conference participants, but also by offering them an opportunity to draw attention to their initiatives, e.g. by organizing public events and field-trips.
For more information visit http://www.iasc2017.org/
Last Updated: 15th January 2020 by Gemma
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
Last Updated: 15th January 2020 by Gemma
GLTN | Vacancy: Programme management officer human settlements
The focus of this position is to support the coordination, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the country level work of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), focusing on priority countries in Africa. These posts are located in the GLTN Unit of the UN-Habitat, in Nairobi. Under the supervision of the Unit Leader of the GLTN, the HSO will be expected to undertake the following duties and responsibilities:
Education
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in land administration and management, social sciences or related area. A first university degree with a combination of two years professional and academic qualifications may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.
Work Experience
A minimum of seven years of experience in land and natural management and tenure security in developing world is required. Experience in programme management and coordination, knowledge management, tool and capacity development and partnership building is desirable.
Applications are to be made through INSPIRA here
Last Updated: 15th January 2020 by Gemma
LANDac | Annual International Conference 2016 – REPORT now available
The report of the 2016 LANDac International Land Conference which took place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on 30 June and 1 July is now available for download. Please find the report here:
2016 Conference report LANDac
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Gemma
LANDdialogue | FPIC workshops at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
To deepen the knowledge on FPIC amongst public, civic, private and academic stakeholders in The Netherlands and to promote better insight in the background, value and importance of FPIC, The Organising Committee of the Land Governance Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue has organised a series of sessions on FPIC.
SESSION I
Setting the scene: the importance and value of FPIC in practice
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bezuidenhoutseweg 67, The Hague
September 15, 2016
14:00-17:00, followed by drinks
To register, send an email to IGG-RSVP@minbuza.nl or for further questions contact landac.geo@uu.nl.
This first workshop will be an introductory session aiming to inform participants on the background of FPIC and specifically highlight the application of FPIC in practice. Two speakers will guide the participants through the principles of the implementation of FPIC, followed by an interactive discussion:
Session II: FPIC: Consultation and consent in practice
November 24 2016, 14:00-17:00
Session III: Integrating FPIC in your business processes
January 26 2017, 14:00-17:00