Month: October 2013
Updated on July 26, 2019 by admin
Focus on Land in Africa (FOLA) is a joint initiative of the World Resources Institute (WRI) and Landesa, and provides information for development practitioners and policy makers who are interested in how land and natural resource rights affect,… Read More
Updated on July 26, 2019 by admin
The World Bank has launched its new call for papers for the Land & Poverty Conference in 2014. The conference takes place in Washington DC, at the World Bank, from 31 March – 3 April. Under the theme of… Read More
Updated on July 26, 2019 by admin
DFID intends to publish a new competition opportunity in early 2014 where they will be seeking partners for a new multi-million programme which will improve land governance and the protection of land tenure rights in up to 6… Read More
Updated on July 26, 2019 by admin
On 30 September, LANDac organized a lecture around the themes of climate change and land. Dr Sonja Vermeulen of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) introduced recent themes and topics around the… Read More
Updated on July 26, 2019 by admin
The International Development Studies group of Utrecht University, partner of LANDac, has recently published a research report about Corporate Social Responsibility in the agro-food sector in five African countries. The researchers, in close collaboration with Master students, interviewed… Read More
Updated on July 26, 2019 by admin
During the Donor Roundtable Meeting in Washington on the margins of the annual land and poverty conference at the World Bank on 12 April 2013 participants agreed to establish a new Global Donor Working Group on Land. This… Read More
Updated on July 26, 2019 by admin
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
Updated on July 26, 2019 by admin
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
Month: October 2013
New website: focus on land in Africa
Updated on July 26, 2019 by admin
Focus on Land in Africa (FOLA) is a joint initiative of the World Resources Institute (WRI) and Landesa, and provides information for development practitioners and policy makers who are interested in how land and natural resource rights affect,… Read More
Category: External news, News
Call for papers World Bank Land & Poverty Conference 2014
Updated on July 26, 2019 by admin
The World Bank has launched its new call for papers for the Land & Poverty Conference in 2014. The conference takes place in Washington DC, at the World Bank, from 31 March – 3 April. Under the theme of… Read More
Category: External news, News
DFID to scale up Land portfolio
Updated on July 26, 2019 by admin
DFID intends to publish a new competition opportunity in early 2014 where they will be seeking partners for a new multi-million programme which will improve land governance and the protection of land tenure rights in up to 6… Read More
Category: External news, News
Climate change and land
Updated on July 26, 2019 by admin
On 30 September, LANDac organized a lecture around the themes of climate change and land. Dr Sonja Vermeulen of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) introduced recent themes and topics around the… Read More
Category: Climate Change, LANDac News, News
Csr in the agro-food sector
Updated on July 26, 2019 by admin
The International Development Studies group of Utrecht University, partner of LANDac, has recently published a research report about Corporate Social Responsibility in the agro-food sector in five African countries. The researchers, in close collaboration with Master students, interviewed… Read More
Category: External news, Food Security and Inclusive Agribusiness, LANDac Publications, News
Global Donor Working Group on Land launched
Updated on July 26, 2019 by admin
During the Donor Roundtable Meeting in Washington on the margins of the annual land and poverty conference at the World Bank on 12 April 2013 participants agreed to establish a new Global Donor Working Group on Land. This… Read More
Category: External news, News
Land conflicts in Brazil on Dutch television: Nieuwsuur
Updated on July 26, 2019 by admin
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
Category: External news, News
Sugar rush and land rights
Updated on July 26, 2019 by admin
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
Category: External news, Food Security and Inclusive Agribusiness, News