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Report book launch ‘The Global Land Grab – Beyond The Hype’

On 3 July 2014 LANDac organized an official launch of the new publication ‘The Global Land Grab: Beyond the Hype’ edited by LANDac partners Dr. Mayke Kaag and Prof. Dr. Annelies Zoomers. Minister for Foreign Trade and Development… Read More

11 September 2014 – NL Launch World Bank report ‘Voice and Agency: Empoering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity’

On Thursday morning, 11 September 2014, LANDac together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs organizes a launch of the World Bank report ‘Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity’. The Director of Gender of the… Read More

Job – LANDac Postdoc land governance and food security (0.8 fte) – CLOSED

Specifications Function types Postdoc positions, Research, Development, Innovation Scientific fields Natural Sciences Hours 32.0 hours per week Salary € 2799 – € 3831 Education Doctorate Job number 675245 Translations en About employer Utrecht University Short link www.academictransfer.com/23847 Apply for… Read More

3 July: LANDac book launch & discussion with Minister Ploumen

The Hague, the Netherlands 12.00 – 14.00 hrs, Max van der Stoel room, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bezuidenhoutseweg 67, The Hague Registration required! Please register by sending an e-mail with your full name and affiliation to g.betsema@uu.nl.  Programme… Read More

Report lunch meeting ‘dealing strategically with land issues: the case of benin’

On Monday May 12, 2014, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, LANDac and the Food & Business Knowledge Platform organized a lunch meeting: “Dealing strategically with land issues – the case of Benin”. The lunch meeting was opened by… Read More

Summerschool 2014

Now available: the 2014 day-to-day programme of the 5th LANDac Summer School “Land governance for development”

New Publication: The Global land grab as modern day corporate colonialism

In ‘The global land grab as modern day corporate colonialism’, Mayke Kaag and Annelies Zoomers reflect on the land grab debate so far and go beyond the expression of the global land grab …

2014 Day-To-Day programme LANDac Summer School “Landegovernance for development”

Land is a priority issue in international development research, practice and policy making.

New LANDac Publication: The Global Land Grab – Beyond the hype

The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest in the increasingly contentious issue of land grabbing – the large-scale acquisition …

LANDac becomes partner of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)

Following attendance as an observer of the Partner Meeting of the Global Land Tool Network in The Hague, The Netherlands in November 2013, LANDac joined the GLTN Network on 26 February 2014. The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)… Read More