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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

LANDac | Last chance! Limited places left for the LANDac Summer School 2018 – Land Governance for Development

02–13 July 2018, Utrecht, the Netherlands The course is organized by the Netherlands Academy for Land Governance (LANDac), a network of organizations exchanging knowledge and experience on how land governance may contribute to sustainable and inclusive development. Professionals… 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 | Summary report WB Conference Reflection Meeting 2018

On April 12, 2018, LANDac organised a meeting for Dutch actors working on land governance to reflect on the World Bank’s Land and Poverty Conference 2018, that took place in Washington D.C. from March 19 – 23. The meeting… 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

LANDac | New publication: LANDac Masterclass @ World Bank Conference 2018

On March 23rd 2018, at the World Bank’s Land and Poverty Conference 2018 in Washington D.C., LANDac hosted the Master Class Land governance from the bottom up: including local communities in multi-stakeholder processes. With the Master Class, LANDac… Read More

LANDac | World Bank reflection meeting in Utrecht – 12 April 3-5pm

  WORLD BANK LAND AND POVERTY CONFERENCE REFLECTION MEETING THURSDAY APRIL 12, 3-5 PM @ UTRECHT   LANDac is organizing a debrief meeting following the World Bank Land and Poverty 2018 conference. At this meeting you are invited… Read More

LANDac | Inventaire des projets de recherche en cours/ Call for ongoing initiatives

ENGLISH VERSION BELOW   L’Académie néerlandaise de gouvernance foncière pour un développement durable et équitable (LANDac, www.landgovernance.org) a initié ce projet pilote de recherche pour mieux comprendre la relation entre les investissements fonciers en Afrique de l’Ouest et… Read More