Want to work in Development? Looking for a career as a sustainability professional, social researcher, development specialist, humanitarian worker or policy maker? Interested in Land Issues? Start the journey down your career path with a Master of Arts… Read More
The World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) is seeking NGOs, governments, donors, and private sector firms with interventions designed to improve women’s land tenure security in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. Submission deadline: 5pm US Eastern Standard Time… Read More
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
Climate change affects human security and can increase conflict risk. This issue gained prominence on high level international diplomatic and security policy agendas. Yet still more needs to be done to address risks on the ground. The Planetary… Read More
The journal Ecology & Society has published a special feature on “Transforming Conflicts over Natural Resources in the Global South for Social-Ecological Resilience”. This special feature is edited by Eleanor Fisher, Maarten Bavinck, and Aklilu Amsalu and contains a number… Read More
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
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
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
Improving transparency and consent – Caitlin Ryan LANDac Policy Brief #6 by Caitlin Ryan
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
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