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25/01/2016 Now taking place: online debate on GLTN Gender Evaluation Criteria on the Land Portal
Sharing Best Practices and Lessons Learned for Supporting Women’s Land Rights: A debate on the Gender Evaluation Criteria (GEC) From 25 January to 5 February, the Land Portal Foundation will be holding a debate on the Global Land… Read More
20/01/2016 Website: Open Development Mekong
Open Development Cambodia, has launched its new Generation 2 website today, 20 January. On the new website you will find about 100 pages of briefings covering 17 development sectors, an expanded law compendium, a comprehensive listing of Economic Land… Read More
19/01/2016 Launched: Call for abstracts LANDac Annual International Conference 2016
Now available: the call for abstracts for the 2nd international LANDac conference on 30 June and 1 July 2016. Please find the complete call here: Call for abstracts
15/01/2016 Overview of publications in the area of water governance
The Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitiek (German Development Institute) DIE published an overview of their 2014/2015 publications in the areas of transboundary water management, integrated water resources management, water and energy, water governance in agriculture, payments for water-related ecosystem… Read More
13/01/2016 Dynamic learning events held in Africa on land governance and food security
In early 2015, the Netherlands Academy on Land Governance (LANDac) and the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) developed a knowledge agenda on land governance and food security. One of the activities addressed as part of the agenda was the development… Read More
LANDac 2016 International Land Conference: 30 June – 1 July 2016
On 30 June and 1 July 2016, LANDac will be organising a new International Land Conference: Large-scale land acquisition in the context of urban sprawl and climate change – LINKING THE RURAL AND THE URBAN This conference is a… Read More
14/12/2015 New publication: Theorising the Land – Violent Conflict Nexus
A new article will be published in the journal World Development (February 2016) entitled ‘Theorising the Land – Violent Conflict Nexus’ by Mathijs van Leeuwen (Leiden University, Radboud University Nijmegen) and Gemma van der Haar (Wageningen University). The full… Read More
LANDac 2015 International Land Conference – report available
The report of the 2015 LANDac International Land Conference Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development is now available. Please find the report here: LANDac 2015 Conference Report
GSSC Public Lecture: Annelies Zoomers
Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Köln, Germany Wednesday 2 December, 17.45-19.15 Annelies Zoomers, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest in the increasingly contentious issue of ‘land grabbing’ –… Read More
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9/2/2016 Launched: 3rd edition of MOOC Natural resources and sustainable development
Just launched is a third edition of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) ‘Ressources naturelles et développement durable’ by the Université catholique de Louvain. The course addresses the link between the exploitation of natural resources (land, water, minerals,… Read More