LANDac | Call for papers: LANDac Special Issue in Land
Dear Colleagues, We invite you to submit your paper for open access publication in this Special Issue of Land, “Land Governance and (Im)mobility: Exploring the Nexus between Land Acquisition, Displacement and Migration”. This Special Issue takes the… Read More
LANDac | LANDac Conference side event – Workshop: (Geo)Visualizing Qualitative Methods
Workshop: (Geo)Visualizing Qualitative Methods Organised by Dr. Kei Otsuki and Dr. Ajay Bailey Our academic research often produces texts. We interview people, observe situations, collect more data, analyze and write and publish about them. The question is: are… Read More
Utrecht University | 5 Postdoc researchers for the hub Transforming Cities through Infrastructures
Job description (deadline: 14 June 2018) Within Utrecht University’s strategic theme Pathways to Sustainability an interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed the challenging research programme ‘Transforming Cities through Infrastructures’. In this programme, faculty members from different disciplines (urban governance research,… Read More
ILC & LANDac | Men that champion women’s land rights
The International Land Coalition reported on LANDac’s Learning Event on the Women and Secure Land Rights in Africa project, held in April 2018 in Nairobi. Gender means many things to people, but one image that usually comes to… Read More
LANDac publication | Plantations are everywhere! between infrastructural violence and inclusive development
This paper by Annelies Zoomers discusses Tania Murray Li’s article After the Land Grab: Infrastructural Violence and Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone, placing it in the wider debates about global land grabbing and inclusive development. An excerpt: Although Tania Murray’s article focuses… Read More
LANDac | Final learning event for WLRA in Nairobi (Scaling up women’s land rights in Africa) – video and report now available!
The LANDac project Scaling up women’s land rights in Africa (WLRA) just had its final learning event in Nairobi, Kenya. The 2-day learning event was organized by LANDac (the Netherlands Land Academy), GROOTS Kenya and ActionAid in Kenya, Enda… Read More
GIZ | New publication: Safeguarding Human Rights in Land-Related Investments
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development commissioned a study to compare the Voluntary Guidelines on Land with the IFC Performance Standards and the World Bank Environmental and Social Safeguard Framework. The result is the analysis… Read More
LANDdialogue | APG Reference Guide for Risk Assessment in relation to LAND – document and webinar
In the context of the LANDdialogue, APG initiated a LGD_Reference Guide 2017. The guide provides a useful tool that can help investors identify and monitor ESG risks, and gives an overview of available information on general land-related topics… Read More
Both ENDS | Reference Guide on Infrastructure Set Against Land Governance
The past years have seen a surge in large infrastructure projects, including dams, mines, highways, airports, ports, land reclamation, canals and urban renewal projects. The land assigned to these projects is often inhabited and used for agricultural purposes…. Read More
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
LANDac | Policy Brief #6 Negotiating and implementing large scale land deals in Sierra Leone – Improving transparency and consent
Improving transparency and consent – Caitlin Ryan LANDac Policy Brief #6 by Caitlin Ryan