LAND Special Issue | Exploring the Nexus between Displacement and Land Administration: The Case of Rwanda
Dimo Todorovski 1,* and Jossam Potel 2 1Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management, Faculty for Geo-Information Sciences and Earth Observation—ITC, University of Twente, Hengelosestraat 99, 7514 AE Enschede, The Netherland 2Department of Land Administration and Management, Institute of… Read More
LAND Special Issue | Rent-Seeking Practices, Local Resource Curse, and Social Conflict in Uganda’s Emerging Oil Economy
Tom Ogwang *, Frank Vanclay and Arjan van den Assem Department of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, 9712 CP Groningen, The Netherlands Published: 27 March 2019 Abstract We consider the different types of rent-seeking… Read More
LAND Special Issue | Expansion of Oil Palm Plantations in Indonesia’s Frontier: Problems of Externalities and the Future of Local and Indigenous Communities
Agus Andrianto 1,*,Heru Komarudin 1 and Pablo Pacheco 1,2 1Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor 16115, Indonesia 2World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Washington, DC 20037, USA Published: 29 March 2019 (This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Governance and (Im)mobility: Exploring the… Read More
UN Secretary-General | The Guidance Note of the Secretary General “The United Nations and Land and Conflict”
On Friday 15th of March 2019, the Secretary-General António Guterres endorsed the Guidance Note of the Secretary General on “The United Nations and Land and Conflict”. This is a milestone in the journey towards a sustained and coherent engagement of the… Read More
World Bank | Land and Poverty Conference 2019: Catalyzing Innovation
World Bank Land and Poverty Conference 2019: Catalyzing Innovation Date: 25 Mar 2019 – 29 Mar 2019 Location: Washington, DC, the United States The Annual World Bank Land and Poverty Conference in Washington DC presents the latest research… Read More
The Quantifying Tenure Risk (QTR) Initiative | Assessing the Costs of Tenure Risks to Agribusinesses
The Quantifying Tenure Risk (QTR) is a joint research initiative from the ODI and TMP Systems, funded by the UK’s Department for International Development Economic Growth team in 2017 and 2018. Their aim is to provide the data… Read More
RVO | Programma-adviseur afdeling Internationale Ontwikkeling
[in Dutch] Vacature voor Programma-adviseur afdeling Internationale Ontwikkeling bij Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO) Betere landrechten zijn cruciaal voor resultaten op verschillende ontwikkelingssamenwerkingsthema’s zoals voedselzekerheid, integraal waterbeheer, klimaatadaptatie en duurzaam bos- en grondstoffenbeheer, maar ook voor het bevorderen… Read More
Studium Generale | Who’s got the right to water? with Daphina Misiedjan
How do we distribute water in a fair and sustainable way? Does nature also have the right to water? With human rights scholar Dr Daphina Misiedjan. This Studium Generale lecture is part of a Dutch series on the… Read More
ActionAid | Stronger together: Peasants from Malawi and the Netherlands share knowledge
For a farmer, access to land is crucial, but this access is not self-evident for many women. In December 2018, peasant women from Malawi and the Netherlands came together to exchange their knowledge and experience. The exchange showed that the… Read More
Last Updated: 24th September 2019 by Coordinator
United Nations Special Rapporteur | Statement on extreme poverty and human rights on his visit to Lao PDR
Statement by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his visit to Lao PDR, 18-28 March 2019 Vientiane, 28 March 2019 On paper, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic has made great… Read More