LANDac | Blog Building Towards Ownership: Exploring the Role of a Community Land Trust in Sustainable Development
In this blog, Eva Labrujere explores how local knowledge and a community-based approach can provide a base for a strategic framework to guide sustainable development in Mathare Valley (Nairobi, Kenya). The developed integrative strategic framework aims to build towards overcoming… Read More
ASCL & LARC | Documentary screening on a mining conflict in KwaZulu-Natal: This land
The Land & Accountability Research Centre (LARC) at the University of Cape Town commissioned the vivid documentary film This Land as a way for rural people to bring the untold story of their struggle for rights and accountability on communal land… Read More
LANDac | Guatemala Blog Series #6: Land and the judiciary – an uncertain future
The sixth blog in our Guatemala Blog Series by Jur Schuurman is out: Last December I wrote that Guatemala “is going through a political and constitutional crisis that has everything to do with the struggle of certain sectors… Read More
Women’s Land Rights | Malawi: Empowering women to claim and demand their land rights (video)
In partnership with LANDac’s ‘Scaling up women’s land rights in Africa’ action research programme, Oxfam in Malawi partnered with Landnet to build capacity of women smallholder farmers to claim and demand their land rights. The project was implemented… Read More
ITC Twente | Inaugural Lecture Prof. Dr. Richard Sliuzas 22 November 2018
The Rector Magnificus would like to announce that Prof. Dr. Richard Sliuzas, appointed by the Executive Board of the University of Twente as Professor of Urban Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth… Read More
LANDac | Seminar Climate Displacement
The impacts of climate change increasingly forces people away from their homes and livelihoods. Increased droughts force small-scale farmers to abandon their land and the rising sea level pushes poor families living in delta cities away from their… Read More
LANDac | Annual International Conference Report 2018
The LANDac Annual International Conference 2018 looked at land governance through the lens of mobility. Land acquisitions trigger migration and yield other types of mobility such as capital, goods and ideas. Ensuing land claims raise new questions for… Read More
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
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
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LANDac Publications | Urban Land Grabs in Africa
Urban Land Grabs in Africa (Built Environment Volume 44 – No 4) Click here for the full set of journals. Contents: Urban Land Grabs in Africa? GRIET STEEL, FEMKE VAN NOORLOOS and KEI OTSUKI African Urban Development in a… Read More