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Shelter City Netherlands – New Call

Justice and Peace Netherlands is launching a new call for applications for at risk Human Rights Defenders to participate in Shelter City. The deadline for applications is 10 December 2020. Please be aware that special conditions apply because… Read More

ITC | Vacancy Assistant Professor Spatial and Land Economics

ITC University of Twente: Vacancy Assistant Professor Spatial and Land Economics Deadline: 8th January 2021 ITC University of Twente is looking for an assistant professor in Spatial and Land Economics. Within the ITC’s mission, the claims for sufficient and… Read More

Include | The (business) case for social protection

INCLUDE – a Dutch-African platform that promotes evidence-based policymaking on inclusive development in Africa through research, knowledge sharing and policy dialogue, recently published a document that summarises the work INCLUDE has done on the link between social protection… Read More

Landesa | Secure Land Rights: A Sustainable Solution at the Intersection of Climate Change and COVID-19

In this blog on Skoll Foundation, Rachel McMongagle addresses the dual crisis of climate change and COVID-19. “COVID-19 and climate change are impacting all of us, but the dual disasters have a disproportionate impact on communities in emerging… Read More

IIED | Farmer-herder conflict: open your eyes, change the narrative, find solutions

New research by IIED’s Camilla Toulmin and Saverio Krätli uproots deep-set trend to help understand increasing violence in dryland Africa through the lens of ‘farmer-herder conflict’. They have been digging into the data and found no evidence to… Read More

LandCollaborative Learning Cycle – Call

ILC’s LandCollaborative is looking for an interested and experienced organization – especially members and partners of LandCollaborative conveners – to collaborate in the development and implementation of a capacity building and learning cycle for Multi-Stakeholder Platforms on engagement… Read More

LANDdialoog organiseert kennissessie landrechten IMVO-convenant sierteelt

Op 28 oktober organiseerde de LANDdialoog een kennissessie voor de Convenantpartijen in de Sierteelt. Landrechten en landgebruik is een van de 7 prioritaire thema’s binnen het IMVO-Convenant Sierteelt https://www.imvoconvenanten.nl/-/media/imvo/files/sierteelt/convenant-sierteeltsector.pdf Er waren een drietal sessies, waarbij landrechten en landgebruik… Read More

LAND-at-scale tender Colombia

The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) is seeking (an)  organization(s) to implement the LAND-at-scale intervention in Colombia.  See the original post on the Land Portal website here. Background LAND-at-scale is a land governance support programme for developing countries. A… Read More

GLP | COVID-19, reverse migration, and the impact on land systems

Recently published blog by Sébastien Boillat and dr. Julie Zähringer on the impact of COVID-19 and reverse migration on land systems; “The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world abruptly, affecting nearly all of humanity with breath-taking speed. At… Read More