Now open for registration: LANDac Workshop Land Governance and Food Security in Uganda
When: 26-30 October 2015 (5 days, 4 nights)
Where: Source of the Nile Hotel, Jinja , Uganda
Access to land is vital for inclusive economic growth, sustainable development and food security. Globalization increases national and international pressures on land for food production; but also tourism, urbanization, nature conservation, mining, climate change, etc. spur the demand for land. Diverging interests and competing claims need to be managed – to prevent conflict, to protect local rights and livelihoods, to stimulate inclusive economic development and ensure food security, from the global to the household level. Land governance is essential in managing these processes of inclusion and exclusion.
Workshop
This workshop introduces participants to state-of-the-art knowledge and current debates on the linkages between land governance and food security in Uganda. Participants will share own experiences and learn about best practices in land governance, policies and regulations, and how to optimize the food security outcomes of activities. Topics are discussed in interactive mini-courses, presentations by local experts, solution-oriented workshops and field visits. Topics include: international and national land and food policies; the role of local governments, farmer organizations, civil society and private sector in land governance and food security; access to land for food production; gender and land; and conflict transformation.
This workshop is part of a Netherlands Land Academy (LANDac) & Food and Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) learning trajectory that also includes pre-workshop assignments and (post-workshop) networking and continued coaching and reflection.
Target group
Policy makers, civil society, private sector, researchers, journalists, other interested stakeholders
More information
Gerard Baltissen (g.baltissen@kit.nl)
Gemma Betsema (g.betsema@uu.nl)
Please feel free to contact us for a day-to-day programme and further details!
Deadline for registration: 3 October 2015
Workshop costs: UGX 1,600,000 (including full board accommodation (four nights) and field work; transport costs to and from the venue not included)
Background
Together with the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP: www.knowledge4food.net), one of the five knowledge platforms of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, LANDac has developed a knowledge agenda on land governance and food security. Two activities have been taken up in the context of this agenda: a scoping study on the linkages between land governance and food security, and the current capacity building trajectory.
Capacity building trajectory Land Governance & Food Security
LANDac has developed a capacity building trajectory on land governance and food security. The main component of this activity are three country-specific workshops for policy makers, development practitioners and private sector stakeholders in Ethiopia, Ghana and Uganda. The aim of these five-day capacity building trajectories is to provide participants and their organizations with the knowledge to deal with issues of land governance and food security in their countries. Four issues central to this objective include an increased understanding of the complex linkages between land governance and food security; offering practical tools for improvement; linking up experts in countries; and scaling up of individual capacities to organizational and societal level. A related output of the capacity building trajectory is the updating and expansion of the existing LANDac country factsheets on land governance and food security (2012).
Since our start in 2010, LANDac has been organizing annual two-week short courses on ‘Land Governance for Development’ within the context of the Utrecht University Summer School programme (see: Utrecht Summer School LANDac). The courses take place each summer in Utrecht (early July). 2015 Marked the sixth edition of this course, with 30 students, practitioners and policy makers from around the world. The course introduces participants to the multidisciplinary analysis of the ‘land rush’ within the context of land governance. Building on our experiences with the summer school, together with the outcomes and findings of other LANDac activities, we have now, together with the Food & Business Knowledge Programme, engaged in the setting up of a capacity building trajectory on Land Governance and Food Security. The workshops will introduce participants from all sectors (academia, civil society, government, media, private sector etc.) to the complex and multi-level linkages that exist between land governance and food security. Participants will be presented with the available knowledge and experiences that exists within their country (presented by country experts) as well as available knowledge at a global level, on issues of land governance and food security. Special attention will be given to the practical application of this information to individual and organizational contexts in which the participants operate in their daily work.
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by Gemma
12/10/2015 Now online: Photo’s LANDac conference
Photo’s taken during the 3-day LANDac conference (8-10 July 2015) are now available online. Please check the LANDac Land governance for development Flickr account:
Flickr LANDac
Last Updated: 28th June 2019 by Gemma
New vacancy: Technical editor at Geomares BV
Vacancy in Dutch:
Technical editor
Geomares BV, Lemmer, the Netherlands
Functieomschrijving
Ben jij de nieuwe Technical Editor voor GIM International, Hydro International en Geo-matching.com? Op korte termijn heeft Geomares Publishing ruimte voor een Technical Editor met passie voor de combinatie redactie en techniek. Onze nieuwe Technical Editor bouwt verder mee aan de leidende positie van onze merken binnen de geomatics business. Hij of zij weet snel een relevant netwerk te bouwen onder auteurs, kent de verschillende functies van online en print publicatiekanalen, heeft kennis van de geomatics en hydrografische business (of weet deze snel te verwerven) én weet Engelstalige teksten van auteurs over de hele wereld snel te redigeren tot een publicabel verhaal maar draait zijn hand ook niet om voor een zelfgeschreven artikel. De Technical Editor bewaakt de inhoudelijke koers van de publicaties in samenspraak met externe- en interne collega’s van de redactie.
Dagelijkse werkzaamheden zullen onder meer bestaan uit het redigeren en schrijven van artikelen, screenen van nieuwe inhoud (samen met collega-redacteuren) voor de sites en tijdschriften, voorstellen doen voor nieuwe artikelen en meedenken en uitvoering geven aan constante doorontwikkeling van de sites en tijdschriften.
Functie-eisen
Herken jij je in onderstaand profiel? Dan willen we graag dat je ons team komt versterken:
Je hebt:
Je bent:
We bieden:
Bedrijfsprofiel
Geomares Publishing is een internationale uitgeverij van toonaangevende business-to-business media voor professionals werkzaam in geomatica en hydrografie. Geomares biedt een leuke kans aan een Technical Editor die zin heeft om in een klein, jong en enthousiast team, in een informele en internationale omgeving, te werken aan publicaties met de wereld als werkveld.
Wil jij in aanmerking komen voor deze functie, dan zien we graag je reactie voor 1 november a.s. tegemoet. Je kunt een cv met een motivatie sturen naar Durk Haarsma, uitgever bij Geomares Publishing, e-mailadres durk.haarsma@geomares.nl. Wil je eerst meer informatie, bel dan met Durk Haarsma op 0514-561854.
Acquisitie naar aanleiding van deze advertentie wordt niet op prijs gesteld!
Link naar vacature op de Nationale Vacaturebank:
NationaleVacaturebank.nl
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by Gemma
25/09/2015 New LANDac publication – The moving frontiers of genetically modified soy production
LANDac PhD Lucia Goldfarb and LANDac partner Gemma van der Haar (Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University) have published a new article titled ‘The moving frontiers of genetically modified soy production: shifts in land control in the Argentinian Chaco’. The article was published in the Journal of Peasant Studies on 23 September 2015.
Summary
This article attempts to understand how control over land (power in practice) is built, achieved and contested in the context of land transfers involving pressures over possession rights in Santiago del Estero in northern Argentina. Here new forms of land control – due to expansion of the speculative, soy and cattle frontiers – are changing and involve new relationships while using novel mechanisms to gain and maintain control. The article adopts the notion of shifting ‘frontiers of land control’ as an analytical lens, following Lund and Peluso (2011). We can say that the process of soy and cattle expansion into the new frontiers happens through a group of different mechanisms which range from voluntary purchase to violent evictions. As shifts in land control in the frontier involve pressures on possession rights, we observe different mechanisms of control, mainly in the direction of dispossession and enclosure. The paper adds to the debate on ‘land grabbing’ by (a) showing how domestic investors operate to advance industrial agriculture and (b) showing how this frontier advances in a context of (rather unsecured) possession rights where rights are being shifted through transfers (sales, leases, evictions) and compensation mechanisms as well as conflict and judicial procedures.
Link: online access
Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alternative_heat/7544933130
Last Updated: 25th September 2019 by Gemma
LANDdialogue | Rabobank statement on land rights
The Dutch bank Rabobank has published a statement on land rights. The statement refers to the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, as well as mentioning the importance of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC). The full text of this statements (in Dutch) is available here.
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by Gemma
Now open for registration: Workshop Land Governance & Food Security in Uganda
Now open for registration: LANDac Workshop Land Governance and Food Security in Uganda
When: 26-30 October 2015 (5 days, 4 nights)
Where: Source of the Nile Hotel, Jinja , Uganda
Access to land is vital for inclusive economic growth, sustainable development and food security. Globalization increases national and international pressures on land for food production; but also tourism, urbanization, nature conservation, mining, climate change, etc. spur the demand for land. Diverging interests and competing claims need to be managed – to prevent conflict, to protect local rights and livelihoods, to stimulate inclusive economic development and ensure food security, from the global to the household level. Land governance is essential in managing these processes of inclusion and exclusion.
Workshop
This workshop introduces participants to state-of-the-art knowledge and current debates on the linkages between land governance and food security in Uganda. Participants will share own experiences and learn about best practices in land governance, policies and regulations, and how to optimize the food security outcomes of activities. Topics are discussed in interactive mini-courses, presentations by local experts, solution-oriented workshops and field visits. Topics include: international and national land and food policies; the role of local governments, farmer organizations, civil society and private sector in land governance and food security; access to land for food production; gender and land; and conflict transformation.
This workshop is part of a Netherlands Land Academy (LANDac) & Food and Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) learning trajectory that also includes pre-workshop assignments and (post-workshop) networking and continued coaching and reflection.
Target group
Policy makers, civil society, private sector, researchers, journalists, other interested stakeholders
More information
Gerard Baltissen (g.baltissen@kit.nl)
Gemma Betsema (g.betsema@uu.nl)
Please feel free to contact us for a day-to-day programme and further details!
Deadline for registration: 3 October 2015
Workshop costs: UGX 1,600,000 (including full board accommodation (four nights) and field work; transport costs to and from the venue not included)
Background
Together with the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP: www.knowledge4food.net), one of the five knowledge platforms of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, LANDac has developed a knowledge agenda on land governance and food security. Two activities have been taken up in the context of this agenda: a scoping study on the linkages between land governance and food security, and the current capacity building trajectory.
Capacity building trajectory Land Governance & Food Security
LANDac has developed a capacity building trajectory on land governance and food security. The main component of this activity are three country-specific workshops for policy makers, development practitioners and private sector stakeholders in Ethiopia, Ghana and Uganda. The aim of these five-day capacity building trajectories is to provide participants and their organizations with the knowledge to deal with issues of land governance and food security in their countries. Four issues central to this objective include an increased understanding of the complex linkages between land governance and food security; offering practical tools for improvement; linking up experts in countries; and scaling up of individual capacities to organizational and societal level. A related output of the capacity building trajectory is the updating and expansion of the existing LANDac country factsheets on land governance and food security (2012).
Since our start in 2010, LANDac has been organizing annual two-week short courses on ‘Land Governance for Development’ within the context of the Utrecht University Summer School programme (see: Utrecht Summer School LANDac). The courses take place each summer in Utrecht (early July). 2015 Marked the sixth edition of this course, with 30 students, practitioners and policy makers from around the world. The course introduces participants to the multidisciplinary analysis of the ‘land rush’ within the context of land governance. Building on our experiences with the summer school, together with the outcomes and findings of other LANDac activities, we have now, together with the Food & Business Knowledge Programme, engaged in the setting up of a capacity building trajectory on Land Governance and Food Security. The workshops will introduce participants from all sectors (academia, civil society, government, media, private sector etc.) to the complex and multi-level linkages that exist between land governance and food security. Participants will be presented with the available knowledge and experiences that exists within their country (presented by country experts) as well as available knowledge at a global level, on issues of land governance and food security. Special attention will be given to the practical application of this information to individual and organizational contexts in which the participants operate in their daily work.
Last Updated: 28th June 2019 by Gemma
New CIFOR vacancy: Gender Post-Doctoral Fellow – Globalized trade and investments
Gender Post-Doctoral Fellow – Globalized trade and investments
The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is a nonprofit, global research organization dedicated to advancing human well-being, environmental conservation and equity.
We conduct research that enables more informed and equitable decision making about the use and management of tropical and sub-tropical forest landscapes. We help policy makers and practitioners shape effective policy, improve the management of tropical forests and address the needs and perspectives of people who depend on forests for their livelihoods. Our multidisciplinary approach considers the underlying drivers of deforestation and degradation which often lie outside the forestry sector: forces such as agriculture, infrastructure development, trade and investment policies and law enforcement.
Overview
CIFOR is seeking a qualified, committed and collaborative post-doctoral fellow to undertake research on gender and agribusiness expansion in tropical countries. The successful candidate will document the mediating factors that affect rural women and men in the process of agribusiness expansion, and assess how different outcomes can be realized under smallholder-inclusive investment models. The post-doctoral fellow will be a part of the CGIAR Research Consortium on Forest, Trees and Agroforestry (CRP FTA) Flagship 5 on “Global Trade and Investments”, and work closely with researchers at CRP Policy Institutions and Markets (PIM) and CRP Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE), focusing on the gender differentiated impacts of large-scale land and water acquisition.
Duties and responsibilities
• Carrying out a review of literature on gender and agribusiness expansion; assessing whether and how different policy responses (such as responsible investments policies, regulatory safeguards and codes of conduct – among others) take into account gender issues linked to commercial commodity investments
• Designing a detailed research protocol to conduct primary research on policy process and local level impacts; analyzing primary and secondary data
• Developing a strategy for engaging with both research and boundary partners, and informing key government and donor strategies on agribusiness expansion
• Authoring reports, working papers, briefing notes peer-reviewed journal articles addressing the knowledge gap on gender-differentiated outcomes and gender inclusive investment models
• Responding to relevant call for proposals, and providing support fundraising efforts
• Disseminating knowledge products to relevant policy actors and monitoring their impacts.
Education, knowledge and experience
• A PhD in a gender related issues in any of the following disciplines: development studies, economics, sociology, anthropology and other relevant disciplines. A solid foundation in political economy or political ecology
• A minimum of two years, hands-on experience with gender and natural resource management, forestry, environmental management required
• Sound command of qualitative and quantitative research methods applied to developing country contexts
• Experience in developing and facilitating training, workshops and/or events (with a gender theme preferred)
• Excellent skills in synthesis and review
• Fluency in spoken and written English at a professional level. A second language preferred (such as French, Swahili, Portuguese, Bahasa Indonesia)
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in cross- cultural contexts with researchers, policymakers, donors, and civil society
• Emerging international, peer-reviewed publications record
• Experience in proposal development/writing required and fundraising preferred.
Personal Attributes and Competencies
• Excellent facilitation skills
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative and complete tasks with an attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to multi-task and work to tight deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Values the sharing of information in a collaborative atmosphere of constructive evaluation and learning
• Willingness to travel as required.
Terms and Conditions
• This is a Post-Doctoral Fellow position. CIFOR offers competitive remuneration, commensurate with skills and experience
• The appointment will be for a period of two years, inclusive nine-month probationary period, with a possibility of extension contingent upon performance, continued relevance of the position and available resources. Maximum assignment of Post-Doctoral Fellow is four years.
• The duty station will be at CIFOR Headquarters in Bogor, Indonesia or CIFOR Hub in Nairobi, Kenya.
Application process
The application deadline is 30 September 2015.
We will acknowledge all applications, but will contact only short-listed candidates.
More information: Download
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by Gemma
Vacancies at the Global Land Tool Network
The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) is an alliance of global regional and national partners contributing to poverty alleviation through land reform, improved land management and security of tenure particularly through the development and dissemination of pro-poor and gender-sensitive land tools.
GLTN currently has a number of consultancy vacancies, including:
Consultant Lead Evaluator and Consultant Land Expert – these two positions make up an independent team that will conduct a Mid-Term Review, a critical activity that will seek to establish the progress made in the implementation of the GLTN Phase 2 Programme (2012-2015). Deadline for applications: 31 August 2015.
Consultant Land and Conflict – the incumbent for this position will support the implementation of a new Swiss-funded sub-pgoramme ‘Conflict Sensitive Land Governance Initiative within the Urban-Rural Nexus Context’ that will address conflict sensitive land governance issues in the urban-rural nexus context. Deadline for applications: 31 August 2015.
More information and other consultancies:
http://gltn.net/index.php/vacancies
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by Gemma
International land coalition seeks two long-term consultants
Country: Italy
The International Land Coalition is a coalition of 207 organisations from 64 countries. ILC’s function as a network brings together diverse but complementary efforts, particularly between intergovernmental and civil society organisations. ILC supports its members through its three strategic Objectives: connecting members with each other and with change-makers beyond the Coalition; mobilising members by reinforcing and equipping their efforts with the necessary knowledge, capacity, and opportunities; and influencing governments, their partners, and corporate actors
Members of the International Land Coalition (ILC) in Africa, Latin America and Asia are organized into regional platforms. Each regional platform meets once a year to approve ILC’s priority actions for the region, which are subsequently integrated in ILC’s global work plan. For each regional platform, a light regional coordination unit hosted by a member and headed by a Regional Coordinator supports the implementation of the regional component of the ILC work plan, under the oversight of a regional Steering Committee.
Moreover in 2012, ILC launched a new approach to country-level work (“National Engagement Strategies” – usually referred to as NES) to better serve one of ILC’s main objectives of influencing land-related policies’ formulation and implementation at national level to realize people centered land governance.
Regional and national platforms are becoming more prominent in ILC. In support of the effective functioning and strengthening of the regional and national platforms, a regional contact point is established within the Global ILC Secretariat for each regional platform.
ILC Secretariat is Looking for:
The ILC Secretariat is now seeking two qualified professionals as full time consultant positions for the regional and national engagement support for Africa and Asia within ILC Secretariat.
The consultants will be hired for a eleven month period to:
(a) act as support to the regional coordination;
(b) support regional grant performance and impact assessment;
(c) support cross-regional and inter-members fertilization; and
(d) act as a support to the national engagement strategies implemented in the region of reference
More information and details for application:
ILC Vacancies
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by Gemma
New internship opportunity (deadline 3 August): Indigenous and community land rights at Oxfam Novib
Oxfam Novib
Internship on Indigenous and community land rights
The Oxfam Novib Academy is looking for a student with a relevant background in the area of land rights about for the duration of 3-6 months and at least 3 days a week. (Internship)
Start Date: 31st of August (Apply before 3 August!)
Oxfam Novib is a worldwide development organisation. We are a proud member of Oxfam, a global confederation that has a shared commitment towards reducing poverty and striving for a just world. We are looking for students who get excited about obtaining experience on how international development cooperation works, the challenges we face and the inspirational results we see every day.
Oxfam is involved in the Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights and is in the process of developing the global campaign on indigenous and community land rights, which shall be launched by the end of 2015 and which will run up to 2020. The main aim of the campaign is to bring about the necessary changes that enable and support the recognition of indigenous and community land rights at the national scale, where such rights and tenure governance institutions are determined, ‘to double the area of land recognized as owned or controlled by indigenous peoples and local communities by 2020.’
As Oxfam Novib, we are looking for students who can bring in new, state-of-the-art knowledge and fresh perspectives on social change to help up strengthen the cutting-edge nature of our programmes and credibility of our campaigns. We expect you to assist us in systematic documentation and analysis of our own data and external research. We expect that you will translate your insights into propositions that will strengthen our programmes and/or campaigns. You can also be asked to take up logistical, communication and administration tasks in support of the day-to-day work of your new colleagues.
We offer a dynamic working environment in which your research will feed into programming and policy work. You will have access to information and a worldwide network of actors in international development. And just as important, you will share your experience with a select group of other students who are just like you eager to learn more about what it means to work for an organisation as Oxfam Novib and wish to discover how they can contribute to reducing a just world without poverty.
In the context of our work on indigenous and community land rights, the Oxfam Novib Academy 2015 has identified the need for research in this area as we are preparing a campaign report on this topic. In particular, work in this area should focus on supporting the development of our campaign strategy, our lobby and particularly how we can better support the work of our partners in this area.
More information about key deliverables, tasks and requirements for this position, as well as information on how to apply:
One World – Internship Oxfam Novib
Posted: 20th July 2015 by Gemma
LANDac 2015 Conference – outcomes and documents
On 8, 9 and 10 July 2015, over 250 experts from academia, civil society organizations, governments, farmers organizations, financial institutions and private sector gathered in Utrecht for the LANDac International Conference on Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development. Participants traveled from more than 35 different countries worldwide, to share experiences and research, learn from each other, and the define new research frontiers and discuss policy agenda’s; all focused around the central theme of ‘Joining forces’. On the conference page on this website, you can find the detailed programme and list of presentations. In the coming weeks, we will be uploading the Powerpoint presentations of authors, as well as the key note contributions. For those of you present: thank you so much for attending and for making this a great and successful event! And for everyone interested in these topics: stay put, we will be announcing future LANDac activities soon!
For now, please find the key note contribution by Robin Palmer at our conference online on the Mokoro website: How best to respond to contempt by Africas ruling elites