GLTN | Darfur Land Administration Assessment: Analysis and Recommendations
The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) and the UN-Habitat Sudan Country Programme, in close collaboration with the United Nations Country Team of Sudan, the United Nations – African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) and the Darfur Land… Read More
University of Amsterdam | Junior Researcher Housing Market and Migrants in the Netherlands
Are you interested in conducting research, especially in the field of the housing market and migrants in the Netherlands? This short term research project is a collaboration of the University of Amsterdam (GPIO) and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment… Read More
Springer | Juxtapositions in Jakarta: How Flood Interventions Reinforce and Challenge Urban Divides
New article by Roanne van Voorst in Urban Forum – “Juxtapositions in Jakarta: How Flood Interventions Reinforce and Challenge Urban Divides”. AbstractThis paper traces the interplay of spatially, socially and legally juxtaposed differences between different groups of Indonesia’s… Read More
T&F | Land, territory and commons: voices and visions from the struggles
New article by Tomaso Ferrando , Isabel Álvarez Vispo , Molly Anderson , Sophie Dowllar ,Harriet Friedmann , Antonio Gonzalez , Chandra Maracle & Nora McKeon – “Land, territory and commons: voices and visionsfrom the struggles” AbstractAll over… Read More
Land Portal | Data Story – Pastoralists in Iran: Flexible sustainable use-rights solutions in the semi-arid area of Maymand
The Land Portal Foundation has published a new Data Story by Abolfazl Sharifian Bahraman and Dr. Hossein Barani – “Pastoralists in Iran: Flexible sustainable use-rights solutions in the semi-arid area of Maymand”.
University of Antwerp | Doctoral Scholarship Urbanisation, Poverty and Inequality in Africa
Deadline for application: 26 August 2020 The University of Antwerp’s recently founded Antwerp Interdisciplinary Platform for Research into Inequality (AIPRIL) seeks to advance our understanding of how socioeconomic inequalities are changing, what is driving such trends and what,… Read More
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | PhD position Biodiversity Conservation in Times of Climate Change
Deadline for application: 24 August 2020 Are you willing to contribute to the implementation of the global biodiversity targets using an interdisciplinary perspective? Please apply at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.The PhD student will perform an interdisciplinary study how biodiversity… Read More
Landesa | Podcast on Desertification & Drought
In a conversation to mark the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, Landesa’s Beth Roberts and Shipra Deo discuss the ways in which rural women are burdened by the effects of land degradation, and how securing their… Read More
ITC University of Twente | Implications of Customary Land Rights Inequalities for Food Security
Newly published article by Baslyd B. Nara, Monica Lengoiboni and Jaap Zevenbergen (ITC University of Twente) – “Implications of Customary Land Rights Inequalities for Food Security: A Study of Smallholder Farmers in Northwest Ghana”. AbstractInequalities in land rights… Read More
Last Updated: 9th November 2020 by Lotte van der Heijden
FAO | Webinar on Youth Innovation in Land, Soil and Water, Now Available to Watch Online
The engagement of youth and young professionals plays a key role achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) since today’s youth are more geographically mobile and technologically connected than any other generation. In the context of COVID-19 pandemic, intergenerational… Read More