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Month: November 2013

Vacancy announcement: Land Portalopen data website admin

The Land Portal team is looking for a technical person with expertise in Drupal administration and Open Data.   The team is seeking a multi-skilled technical lead to manage the transition of the Land Portal from it’s first version… 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

Experts identified key indicators to support the Post-2015 development agenda

Experts identified key indicators to support the Post-2015 development agenda Prior to the GLTN Partner meeting on 11, 12 and 13 November in the Hague, the Netherlands, over 30 internationals experts met and agreed to propose 4 promising… Read More

Land rights and Coca Cola

Following the Oxfam report ‘Sugar Rush – Land rights and the supply chains of the biggest food and beverage companies’, Coca Cola announced that it commits to zero-tolerance for land grabbing. Please find the full commitments here.

Publication: The governance of large-scale farmland investments in Sub-Saharan Africa. A comparative analysis of challenges for sustainability.

Book: The governance of large-scale farmland investments in Sub-Saharan Africa. A comparative analysis of challenges for sustainability. By George Schoneveld 2013 Growing global resource scarcities and increasingly unstable commodity markets have in recent years propelled large numbers of… Read More