Statement by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his visit to Lao PDR, 18-28 March 2019 Vientiane, 28 March 2019 On paper, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic has made great progress in poverty reduction over recent decades. And after more than twenty years of striving to graduate […]
Agus Andrianto 1,*,Heru Komarudin 1 and Pablo Pacheco 1,2 1Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor 16115, Indonesia 2World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Washington, DC 20037, USA Published: 29 March 2019 (This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Governance and (Im)mobility: Exploring the Nexus between Land Acquisition, Displacement and Migration) Abstract The expansion of oil palm plantations in Papua province, […]
Dimo Todorovski 1,* and Jossam Potel 2 1Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management, Faculty for Geo-Information Sciences and Earth Observation—ITC, University of Twente, Hengelosestraat 99, 7514 AE Enschede, The Netherland 2Department of Land Administration and Management, Institute of Applied Sciences, 155 Ruhengeri, Rwanda *Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Published: 29 March 2019 Abstract […]
Tom Ogwang *, Frank Vanclay and Arjan van den Assem Department of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, 9712 CP Groningen, The Netherlands Published: 27 March 2019 Abstract We consider the different types of rent-seeking practices in emerging oil economies, and discuss how they contribute to social conflict and a local resource […]
On Friday 15th of March 2019, the Secretary-General António Guterres endorsed the Guidance Note of the Secretary General on “The United Nations and Land and Conflict”. This is a milestone in the journey towards a sustained and coherent engagement of the UN System on land and conflict to prevent conflict and sustain peace. Developed under the leadership […]
Urban Land Grabs in Africa (Built Environment Volume 44 – No 4) Click here for the full set of journals. Contents: Urban Land Grabs in Africa? GRIET STEEL, FEMKE VAN NOORLOOS and KEI OTSUKI African Urban Development in a Post-Aid Era: The ‘Dutch Approach’ to Urban Restructuring in Beira City, Mozambique MURTAH SHANNON New Master-Planned […]
The Annual Country Reviews reflect upon current land issues in the Mekong Region and has been produced for researchers, practitioners and policy advocates operating in the field. Specialists have been selected from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam to briefly answer the following two questions: 1. What are the most pressing issues involving land governance […]
Secure access and use of land for men and women is crucial for sustainable development, food security and for a vibrant agricultural sector in support of inclusive socio-economic development. The brochure briefly presents how land governance is improving globally and at the country level. In particular, critical issues such as equal land rights for women […]
The present study was commissioned by the Eastern African Farmers’ Federation with active involvement by Agriterra, and funded by LANDac, the IS Academy on Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development. It started from the hypothesis that better horizontal and vertical linkages make for stronger farmers’ organization with more negotiation capacity, and that this directly […]
Accountability in land governance concerns the ways in which governing bodies and their representatives who are responsible for decisions concerning land claims, settling land disputes and drafting development and environmental plans for their territories (at national, regional and local levels) are accountable to the citizens they represent and serve. Factors such as the implementation of new […]
What can local-level governments do to control and mitigate the commercial pressures placed on land? This is the question this working paper tries to answer. It is clear by now that the acquisition of land by foreign and domestic investors for commercial purposes may generate considerable pressures on the ground and – if unmitigated – […]
As part of a F&BKP knowledge agenda on land governance and food security, LANDac organised three country-specific learning trajectories on land governance and food security in Uganda, Ghana and Ethiopia. This reflection paper brings together the main findings and outcomes to provide policy recommendations for improved land governance and food security in Africa. The three events, held […]
Researcher: Eileen Dyer
Femke van Noorloos – completed
George Schoneveld – completed
Linked to this research, a book chapter was published: ‘Land conflicts in Senegal revisited: Continuities and emerging dynamics’ (Mayke Kaag, Yaram Gaye and Marieke Kruis), as part of the Brill publication ‘Land, law and politics in Africa’ (ed. by Jan Abbink and Mirjam de Bruijn). The chapter is available through open access, and can be […]
PhD student: Nguyen Quang Phuc (Hue College of Economics -Hue University, Vietnam) Host institution: International Development Studies, Utrecht University
PhD student: Ty Pham Huu (Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry – HUAF, Vietnam) Host institution: International Development Studies, Utrecht University
Results from a survey in Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger. Thea Hilhorst (KIT), Joost Nelen, Nata Traoré (SNV) – April 2011
The aim of the current project is to gain a better understanding of current processes of land acquisition related to the rapidly expanding ‘soya frontier’ in South America, by analyzing how soya production rapidly increased, first in Argentina, but then spreading into Paraguay and other countries of the region. Today, there are clear indications that […]
