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Report book launch ‘The Global Land Grab – Beyond The Hype’
On 3 July 2014 LANDac organized an official launch of the new publication ‘The Global Land Grab: Beyond the Hype’ edited by LANDac partners Dr. Mayke Kaag and Prof. Dr. Annelies Zoomers. Minister for Foreign Trade and Development… Read More
3 July: LANDac book launch & discussion with Minister Ploumen
The Hague, the Netherlands 12.00 – 14.00 hrs, Max van der Stoel room, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bezuidenhoutseweg 67, The Hague Registration required! Please register by sending an e-mail with your full name and affiliation to g.betsema@uu.nl. Programme… Read More
New Publication: The Global land grab as modern day corporate colonialism
In ‘The global land grab as modern day corporate colonialism’, Mayke Kaag and Annelies Zoomers reflect on the land grab debate so far and go beyond the expression of the global land grab …
New LANDac Publication: The Global Land Grab – Beyond the hype
The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest in the increasingly contentious issue of land grabbing – the large-scale acquisition …
Global Donor Working Group policy brief ‘land in a post-2015 framework’
The Global Donor Working Group on Land (http://www.donorplatform.org/land/on-common-ground.html?Itemid=9) published a platform policy brief on land in a post-2015 framework. The policy brief can be accessed via this link.
Land rights in Namibia
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) recently published two case studies about land rights in Namibia. Topics are the strenghtening of women’s rights to land and the systematic registration of communal land in Namibia. Both documents are… Read More
New publication: a critical review of the policy debate on large-scale land acquisitions
In the new publication ‘Africa for Sale. Positioning the state, land and society in foreign large-scale land acquisitions in Africa’ (Evers, Seagle, Krijtenburg, eds), Professor Annelies Zoomer contributed a chapter entitled ‘A critical review of the policy debate on large-scale… Read More
New publication: compensation and resettlement policies
‘Compensation and resettlement policies after compulsory land acquisition for hydropower development in Vietnam: policy and practice’ In this new article published last week in open access journal Land, the authors analyse differences between policies and practices regarding state-led… Read More
New publication: Africa for sale
‘Africa for sale: Positioning the state, land and society in foreign large-scale land acquisitions in Africa’ Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Caroline Seagle and Froukje Krijtenburg (eds.) The past several decades have witnessed a rise in foreign and domestic investments… Read More
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18/08/2014 – The global land grab as modern day corporate colonialism
In the article ‘The global land grab as modern day corporate colonialism, LANDac partners Mayke Kaag (African Studies Centre) and Annelies Zoomers (International Development Studies, Utrecht University) reflect on the debate around large-scale land acquisitions, based on their… Read More