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Sugar rush and land rights
As part of its ‘Behind the Brands’ campaign, Oxfam today published a new report about the sugar rush and how it is driving large-scale land acquisitions and land conflicts. Sugar, as a land-intensive crop, is one of the… Read More
Community land and natural resource rights
On 23 September, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DME and DDE), in cooperation with LANDac organized a lecture & lunch about community land and natural resource rights. The meeting was a follow-up of an international conference held on… Read More
The governance of large-scale farmland investments in Sub-Saharan Africa
PhD defence George Schoneveld 2 October 2013, 16.00 hrs, Academiegebouw Utrecht University African states offer their populations insufficient protection from foreign land grabs Growing global resource scarcities and increasingly unstable commodity markets have in recent years encouraged large… Read More
Vacancies PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
PBL, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, offers four vacancies linked to work on Global Food Systems and natural resource scarcity. The vacancies can be accessed through this link: http://www.pbl.nl/en/aboutpbl/vacancies.
Successful fourth summer school Land Governance for Development
The fourth edition of the Summer School Land Governance for Development brought together a very interesting group of participants and lecturers to study current debates on land governance and land deals. The 2-week course, organized by LANDac (8-19… Read More
New article: land conversion for urban development in Vietnam
A new article on urbanization and land conversion by LANDac-related PhD researcher Nguyen Quang Phuc (Hue University Vietnam / IDS UU) and LANDac (co)chairs Guus van Westen and Annelies Zoomers just appeared online in Habitat International journal. The… Read More
Updated Land Matrix now available
The updated data-sets of the Land Matrix are now available via the Land Matrix website: www.landmatrix.org. The Land Matrix is a tool that aims to contribute to transparency in large-scale land deals. The updated information now differentiates between… Read More
Job announcement World Bank Conference
Planning support for the 2014 Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty The land tenure team in the Agriculture and Rural Development Group in the World Bank’s Research Department leads Bank research on land tenure and governance… Read More
New publication JPS on land grabbing & methodologies
Just released: The Journal of Peasant Studies Forum on Global Land Grabbing Part 2: on methodologies There are five contributions to this Forum (see the list below), and these can be accessed free of charge for a limited period: http://www.tandfonline.com/r/fjps40-3 Table of contents: The… Read More
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Land conflicts in Brazil on Dutch television: Nieuwsuur
Nieuwsuur, a Dutch newsreel, broadcasted an item about the involvement of four Dutch banks and two Dutch pensionfunds in violent land conflicts in Brazil. The banks and pensionfunds invest in Bunge, an American company, which has deals with… Read More