The NEWAVE Network (Next Water Governance) aims to point the way forward in the global debate about water governance. It does so by developing research and training for a new generation of future water governance leaders, and by equipping them with the transdisciplinary skills to better tackle water challenges.
The NEWAVE Network is now recruiting PhDs. There are 15 available positions offered by 10 host organisations. Candidates are expected to start in September-October 2020 and NEWAVE is prepared to adapt to the Covid-19 situation by leveraging remote connection and remote work.
The Research Committee on Agriculture and Food (RC40) of the International Sociological Association is asking for proposals for a small grant of $2000 to support the establishment or development of professional networks related to the sociology of agriculture and food. These networks can be intended to include any or all of the following: researchers, activists, graduate students, educators, and any other group who works on issues related to agriculture and food, although we ask that there be a connection to sociological work. The purpose of the grant is to support the development of communities of people who are working on agriculture and food from a sociological perspective.
GLP is currently seeking to nominate two to three new SSC members, starting June 1, 2020. The Global Land Programme (GLP) is an interdisciplinary community of science and practice fostering the study of land systems and the co-design of solutions for global sustainability and currently a Global Research Project (GRP) of the Future Earth international research platform. GLP represents the community of scientists working on land systems and aims to lead synthesis and knowledge production in the field, organize platforms for interaction between community members through working groups, conferences, workshops, regional activities, online resources and social media, and plays a role in setting the science agendas for emerging land system research themes to better integrate the understanding of the coupled human-environment system.
In a recently published paper (2020), Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco and Zau Nam outline the (political) links between climate change and land. You can read the full paper (open access) here.
Abstract:
Climate change and land are linked – politically. Climate change politics intersects with the global land rush in extensive and complex ways, the impacts of which affect villagers profoundly. These interconnections occur in direct and indirect ways and are often subtle, but that does not make them less important; it only makes the challenge of governing such dynamics in the interests of marginalized working poor people even more difficult. In this paper, we focus our analysis on indirect and subtle interconnections. Examining empirical cases in Northern Shan State in Myanmar, we conclude that these interconnections occur in at least three broad ways, in which climate change politics can be: (i) a trigger for land grabbing, (ii) a legitimating process for land grabs, or (iii) a de-legitimating process for people’s climate change mitigation and adaptation practices. These interconnections in turn stoke old and provoke new political axes of conflict within and between state and social forces.
This Special Issue emerges from contributions of the LANDac Annual International Conference 2018 that took place 28–29 June, 2018, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
You can now read the full Special Issue (open access) here!
The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of China Agricultural University (Beijing), Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape (PLAAS), Young African Researchers in Agriculture (YARA), Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC), and the Global South Young Critical Agrarian Studies Scholars (the emerging association of graduates of this annual writeshop) are jointly organising the Second JPS Annual Summer Writeshop-Workshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism for PhD students and young researchers (up to 5 years from PhD completion) who are based in, or are originally from, the Global South.
The JPS-COHD-PLAAS-YARA-FAC Writeshop aims to improve young researchers’ strategic knowledge about and practical skills on matters related to international journal publication and impact (including choosing journals; building ideas about and framing/writing journal manuscripts, and overall preparation and submission of journal manuscripts; dealing with peer review reports, and so on). It will include sessions on key debates and literature in critical agrarian studies, and concepts in and practice of scholar-activism. The 7-day Writeshop-Workshop will include peer review discussions on participants’ draft journal manuscripts.
After the workshop, participants will be in a better position to frame their work in relation to critical agrarian studies and to think about international journal publications in the long-term, and finalise journal manuscripts in the short term. They will also benefit from being part of an emerging community of young researchers working in critical agrarian studies from a scholar-activist tradition. Several participants would be be invited to submit manuscripts to JPS, and encouraged to submit to other major international journals.
We are looking at a maximum of 30-40 workshop participants. We will provide full fellowships (travel and accommodation financial support) for up to 20 researchers. We also encourage externally funded participants. Successful applicants must circulate a draft manuscript (based on their accepted abstract) of 8,000-10,000 words in advance of the Writeshop-Workshop.
For applications, please submit the following in one Word file:
(1) An abstract of 500 words, related to critical agrarian studies (see JPS aims and scope)
(2) A short bio of 250 words
(3) Names and contact information of 2 academic references
Application results to be announced on 15 March 2020.
Those selected are invited to submit a full draft manuscript of 8,000–10,000 words. This is due on 31 May 2020.
Writeshop-Workshop date: 25-31 July 2020
Venue: COHD, China Agricultural University, Beijing
After last year’s writeshop, the attendees formed the Global South Young Critical Agrarian Scholars and drafted “Towards a solidarity-based network of agrarian studies global-south scholars: A manifesto”.
Call for applicants: MA in Social Science (Development Studies) – Focus on Land Relations – at Chiang Mai University. SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE
Please pass this on to any parties who might
be interested in Masters-level training on land:
For more information, and to receive the full
brochure, please contact Daniel Hayward at: mekonglandforum@gmail.com
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 Relations?
Start the journey down your career path with a Master of Arts in Social Science
(Development Studies) from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai
University.
Since
2017, a focus in land relations has connected students with academic
institutions, NGOs and researchers from around the Mekong Region. Chiang Mai
University has become a centre for training benefitting a new generation of
researchers and administrators working in the field of land governance.
SCHOLARSHIPS
AVAILABLE
For
those from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam, full scholarships are
available, covering both study, travel and living costs.
Deadline
for Application: 31 March 2020
Programme
start: June 2020
For
questions on the International Master’s Program and Chiang Mai University,
please contact Ann at: rungthiwa.hacker@gmail.com
For specific questions about the focus on land relations, please contact Daniel at: mekonglandforum@gmail.com
Research Consortium has launched a Call for Proposals 2020: Women’s Land Rights Research Consortium Research Grant on the Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Women’s Land Tenure Security.
The Research Consortium on Women’s Land Rights is a community of learning and practice that works to increase the quantity and strengthen the quality of research on interventions to advance women’s land and resource rights. With this RFP, the Research Consortium seeks to address gaps in knowledge and evidence on what works and what does not work to improve land and resource rights for women in practice.
Objectives The objectives of the research grants are to:
Contribute to the body of knowledge on gender-differentiated results of interventions that seek to reform land and resource tenure in a given context.
Understand the attributes of interventions, policies, and reforms that make them better or worse for women.
Understand the context in which these interventions take place and how that influences their outcomes.
Develop and disseminate best practices for research and programming that seeks to reduce poverty, ensure better resource management, or improve gender equity through land and resource tenure related reforms.
Build or strengthen capacity to do research on gender and land rights in a way that helps to shift and shape policy and practice.
Types of projects that will be eligible for research grants Grants will be awarded for research projects that address one or more of the following topics:
On interventions that address all the dimensions of tenure security for women: completeness, durability, and robustness. See here for an explanation of these terms.
On the value to women of documenting land and property rights in tenure systems other than private, individual tenure (e.g. collectively held lands).
On interventions that improve women’s participation in governance bodies of collectively held lands and an examination of under what conditions inclusion on governance bodies improves outcomes for women.
On the intra-household effects of land rights reforms, especially for women in male-headed households.
On the sustainability of interventions or outcomes once donors are no longer involved.
On the potential for scaling specific interventions and positive and negative outcomes of doing so.
On land tenure interventions appropriate to the experience of women in different stages of life or with diverse life experiences, e.g., never married, widowed, disabled, economically poor, rural, urban.
On how to effectively foster and support social norm change to the benefit of both women and men.
Eligibility criteria
Grantees must be based in low- and middle-income countries.
Grant-funded research must be undertaken in low- and middle-income countries.
Applicants must have a proven history and background on similar research
Applicants may be organizations or individuals.
Must be able to be completed by the key deadlines provided below.
More than one entry per applicant is acceptable.
Applications must clearly state a research question that aligns with the eligible topics above.
Applications and reports must be submitted in English.
Grant proposals can build on other research and can use existing data if available.
Key Dates All dates/times are Australian Eastern Standard Time UTC +10
Call Information Webinar Session-Wednesday 22nd January 5 pm.
The closing date for applications is Friday 31st January 2020.
Grants awarded by Friday 7th February 2020.
The first draft of reports must be completed by Friday 6th March 2020.
Total grant amount The total budget for grant proposals must not exceed $20,000.
Applications for the 2020 Women’s Land Rights Research Consortium Research Grant on the Effectiveness of Interventions to improve Women’s Land Tenure Security must be submitted using the Annex One in the application package.
Instructions on the form, including word length and process, must be followed to be eligible.
Further information A webinar will be held (and recorded) on Wednesday 22nd January, 2020 at 5pm (AEST +10 UTC) where the Research Consortium representatives will explain the grant criteria.
Register to attend the webinar by clicking the link to zoom below.
You are
cordially invited Frederico’ public defence of its PhD thesis titled:
OIL PALM
EXPANSION IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON
The challenge of reconciling conservation and development
January 17,
2020 at 14.00
Summary
The recent
Amazon fire crises and the emerging anti-environmental governmental rhetoric
across some important countries have brought to the fore the need to develop
viable models that both protect forests and stimulate socioeconomic development
as intertwined goals in tropical landscapes. This dissertation focuses on one
of the proposals to address that aim: sustainable agricultural production. More
precisely, it discusses the extent to which sustainable oil palm expansion can
be a viable option to reconcile conservation and development in the Brazilian
Amazon. The book’s eight chapters analyse in great detail an expansion process
shaped by a unique governance context characterized by robust measures to
prevent the deforestation of primary forests and to use degraded lands, and to
support the inclusion of smallholder farmers in the business through contract
farming schemes. It does so grounded in extensive fieldwork activities carried
out between 2014 and 2015 in the Amazonian state of Pará, where the bulk of
Brazil’s agricultural investments are located. Brazil has achieved remarkable
outcomes in terms of preventing deforestation and stimulating a fairer and more
equitable distribution of benefits. This shows that oil palm expansion is not
necessarily associated with devastating consequences, such as those observed in
Southeast Asia. Yet, the Brazilian model does have some important limitations
in terms of inclusivity and viability, which questions its socio-environmental
orientation in the long run. By discussing the observed merits and failures, the
case study presented here provides an interesting example of the existing
challenges and dilemmas encountered when attempting to align agricultural
development, poverty alleviation, and forest conservation.
This
defense is part of the LIFFE program with CIFOR, and is a partnership with
LANDac.
Last Updated: 25th May 2020 by Coordinator
Extended! NEWAVE Network| PhD positions at host organisations
The NEWAVE Network (Next Water Governance) aims to point the way forward in the global debate about water governance. It does so by developing research and training for a new generation of future water governance leaders, and by equipping them with the transdisciplinary skills to better tackle water challenges.
The NEWAVE Network is now recruiting PhDs. There are 15 available positions offered by 10 host organisations. Candidates are expected to start in September-October 2020 and NEWAVE is prepared to adapt to the Covid-19 situation by leveraging remote connection and remote work.
Click here for an overview and more information.
Deadline for application: May 24, 2020.
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
International Sociological Association | RC40 Call for Proposals
The Research Committee on Agriculture and Food (RC40) of the International Sociological Association is asking for proposals for a small grant of $2000 to support the establishment or development of professional networks related to the sociology of agriculture and food. These networks can be intended to include any or all of the following: researchers, activists, graduate students, educators, and any other group who works on issues related to agriculture and food, although we ask that there be a connection to sociological work. The purpose of the grant is to support the development of communities of people who are working on agriculture and food from a sociological perspective.
Posted: 5th February 2020 by Coordinator
Global Land Programme | Call for Nominations GLP Scientific Steering Committee
GLP is currently seeking to nominate two to three new SSC members, starting June 1, 2020. The Global Land Programme (GLP) is an interdisciplinary community of science and practice fostering the study of land systems and the co-design of solutions for global sustainability and currently a Global Research Project (GRP) of the Future Earth international research platform. GLP represents the community of scientists working on land systems and aims to lead synthesis and knowledge production in the field, organize platforms for interaction between community members through working groups, conferences, workshops, regional activities, online resources and social media, and plays a role in setting the science agendas for emerging land system research themes to better integrate the understanding of the coupled human-environment system.
For more information, please visit the website.
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
Elsevier, World Development | Climate change and land: Insights from Myanmar
In a recently published paper (2020), Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco and Zau Nam outline the (political) links between climate change and land. You can read the full paper (open access) here.
Abstract:
Climate change and land are linked – politically. Climate change politics intersects with the global land rush in extensive and complex ways, the impacts of which affect villagers profoundly. These interconnections occur in direct and indirect ways and are often subtle, but that does not make them less important; it only makes the challenge of governing such dynamics in the interests of marginalized working poor people even more difficult. In this paper, we focus our analysis on indirect and subtle interconnections. Examining empirical cases in Northern Shan State in Myanmar, we conclude that these interconnections occur in at least three broad ways, in which climate change politics can be: (i) a trigger for land grabbing, (ii) a legitimating process for land grabs, or (iii) a de-legitimating process for people’s climate change mitigation and adaptation practices. These interconnections in turn stoke old and provoke new political axes of conflict within and between state and social forces.
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
LANDac | Land Special Issue “Land Governance and (Im)mobility: Exploring the Nexus between Land Acquisition, Displacement and Migration”
We’re happy to announce that the editorial ‘Land Governance from a Mobilities Perspective‘ to LANDac’s Land Special Issue “Land Governance and (Im)mobility: Exploring the Nexus between Land Acquisition, Displacement and Migration” has recently been published!
This Special Issue emerges from contributions of the LANDac Annual International Conference 2018 that took place 28–29 June, 2018, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
You can now read the full Special Issue (open access) here!
Last Updated: 24th January 2020 by Coordinator
Journal of Peasant Studies | 2nd Writeshop-Workshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism 2020. Call for Applications!
The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of China Agricultural University (Beijing), Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape (PLAAS), Young African Researchers in Agriculture (YARA), Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC), and the Global South Young Critical Agrarian Studies Scholars (the emerging association of graduates of this annual writeshop) are jointly organising the Second JPS Annual Summer Writeshop-Workshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism for PhD students and young researchers (up to 5 years from PhD completion) who are based in, or are originally from, the Global South.
The JPS-COHD-PLAAS-YARA-FAC Writeshop aims to improve young researchers’ strategic knowledge about and practical skills on matters related to international journal publication and impact (including choosing journals; building ideas about and framing/writing journal manuscripts, and overall preparation and submission of journal manuscripts; dealing with peer review reports, and so on). It will include sessions on key debates and literature in critical agrarian studies, and concepts in and practice of scholar-activism. The 7-day Writeshop-Workshop will include peer review discussions on participants’ draft journal manuscripts.
After the workshop, participants will be in a better position to frame their work in relation to critical agrarian studies and to think about international journal publications in the long-term, and finalise journal manuscripts in the short term. They will also benefit from being part of an emerging community of young researchers working in critical agrarian studies from a scholar-activist tradition. Several participants would be be invited to submit manuscripts to JPS, and encouraged to submit to other major international journals.
We are looking at a maximum of 30-40 workshop participants. We will provide full fellowships (travel and accommodation financial support) for up to 20 researchers. We also encourage externally funded participants. Successful applicants must circulate a draft manuscript (based on their accepted abstract) of 8,000-10,000 words in advance of the Writeshop-Workshop.
For applications, please submit the following in one Word file:
(1) An abstract of 500 words, related to critical agrarian studies (see JPS aims and scope)
(2) A short bio of 250 words
(3) Names and contact information of 2 academic references
Please send your application to: jpeasantstudieswriteshop@gmail.com
Deadline: 1 March 2020
Application results to be announced on 15 March 2020.
Those selected are invited to submit a full draft manuscript of 8,000–10,000 words. This is due on 31 May 2020.
Writeshop-Workshop date: 25-31 July 2020
Venue: COHD, China Agricultural University, Beijing
After last year’s writeshop, the attendees formed the Global South Young Critical Agrarian Scholars and drafted “Towards a solidarity-based network of agrarian studies global-south scholars: A manifesto”.
Here is what some of last year’s participants thought of the Writeshop:
See also the JPS Resource Centre
For further queries, please contact:
Jun Borras, JPS Editor: junborras5@gmail.com
Ruth Hall, JPS Editorial Collective member: rhall@plaas.org.za
Chunyu Wang, COHD, Beijing: wangchunyu1978@yahoo.com
Cyriaque Hakizimana, YARA (Young African Researchers in Agriculture): chakizimana@plaas.org.za
For regular updates on this, follow JPS on: Twitter and Facebook
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
IDDR | Vacancy Research Fellow Biodiversity and Land-use Change
Download the job description here:Download
or visit the website.
Last Updated: 21st January 2020 by Coordinator
Chiang Mai University | Call for Applicants MA Social Science (Development Studies). Scholarships Available!
Please pass this on to any parties who might be interested in Masters-level training on land:
For more information, and to receive the full brochure, please contact Daniel Hayward at: mekonglandforum@gmail.com
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 Relations? Start the journey down your career path with a Master of Arts in Social Science (Development Studies) from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University.
Since 2017, a focus in land relations has connected students with academic institutions, NGOs and researchers from around the Mekong Region. Chiang Mai University has become a centre for training benefitting a new generation of researchers and administrators working in the field of land governance.
SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE
For those from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam, full scholarships are available, covering both study, travel and living costs.
Deadline for Application: 31 March 2020
Programme start: June 2020
For questions on the International Master’s Program and Chiang Mai University, please contact Ann at: rungthiwa.hacker@gmail.com
For specific questions about the focus on land relations, please contact Daniel at: mekonglandforum@gmail.com
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
Women’s Land Rights | Call for Proposals 2020 (deadline 31-1-2020)
The Research Consortium on Women’s Land Rights is a community of learning and practice that works to increase the quantity and strengthen the quality of research on interventions to advance women’s land and resource rights. With this RFP, the Research Consortium seeks to address gaps in knowledge and evidence on what works and what does not work to improve land and resource rights for women in practice.
Objectives
The objectives of the research grants are to:
Types of projects that will be eligible for research grants
Grants will be awarded for research projects that address one or more of the following topics:
Eligibility criteria
Key Dates
All dates/times are Australian Eastern Standard Time UTC +10
Total grant amount
The total budget for grant proposals must not exceed $20,000.
How to apply
Further information
A webinar will be held (and recorded) on Wednesday 22nd January, 2020 at 5pm (AEST +10 UTC) where the Research Consortium representatives will explain the grant criteria.
Register to attend the webinar by clicking the link to zoom below.
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Rv0pNRgXT-mqWh7PL48SSQ
Questions can be asked during the webinar (online) or can be submitted by Thursday 23rd January 2020 by emailing rc@resourceequity.org .
If you cannot attend the webinar but would like a copy of the webinar recording, please email rc@resourceequity.org.
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
UU, CIFOR & LANDac | PhD Defense Federico Brandão
Dear colleagues,
You are cordially invited Frederico’ public defence of its PhD thesis titled:
OIL PALM EXPANSION IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON
The challenge of reconciling conservation and development
January 17, 2020 at 14.00
Summary
The recent Amazon fire crises and the emerging anti-environmental governmental rhetoric across some important countries have brought to the fore the need to develop viable models that both protect forests and stimulate socioeconomic development as intertwined goals in tropical landscapes. This dissertation focuses on one of the proposals to address that aim: sustainable agricultural production. More precisely, it discusses the extent to which sustainable oil palm expansion can be a viable option to reconcile conservation and development in the Brazilian Amazon. The book’s eight chapters analyse in great detail an expansion process shaped by a unique governance context characterized by robust measures to prevent the deforestation of primary forests and to use degraded lands, and to support the inclusion of smallholder farmers in the business through contract farming schemes. It does so grounded in extensive fieldwork activities carried out between 2014 and 2015 in the Amazonian state of Pará, where the bulk of Brazil’s agricultural investments are located. Brazil has achieved remarkable outcomes in terms of preventing deforestation and stimulating a fairer and more equitable distribution of benefits. This shows that oil palm expansion is not necessarily associated with devastating consequences, such as those observed in Southeast Asia. Yet, the Brazilian model does have some important limitations in terms of inclusivity and viability, which questions its socio-environmental orientation in the long run. By discussing the observed merits and failures, the case study presented here provides an interesting example of the existing challenges and dilemmas encountered when attempting to align agricultural development, poverty alleviation, and forest conservation.
This defense is part of the LIFFE program with CIFOR, and is a partnership with LANDac.
Address: Academiegebouw, Domplein 29, Utrecht