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New America | Future of Property Rights Program: Call for “Frontier Fellows”

New America’s Future of Property Rights Program (FPR) is looking for a ‘Frontier Fellow’! Deadline for application: 10th January 2020. More information below. About the Future of Property Rights Program: New America’s Future of Property Rights Program (FPR)… Read More

LAND-at-scale | Vacature Programma-adviseur

Vacancy in Dutch RVO’s LAND-at-scale is op zoek naar een nieuwe programma-adviseur. Functieomschrijving Betere landrechten zijn cruciaal voor resultaten op verschillende ontwikkelingssamenwerkingsthema’s. Denk maar eens aan voedselzekerheid, integraal waterbeheer, klimaatadaptatie en duurzaam bos- en grondstoffenbeheer. Maar ook aan… Read More

EADI/ISS Series | Solidarity for People Displaced by Large-Scale Investment Projects

LANDac and UU colleagues Kei Otsuki and Griet Steel recently posted a blog for the EADI/ISS Series on Solidarity for People Displaces by Large-Scale Investment Projects. Read the blog here! You can still join the panel by submitting… Read More

Shelter City Netherlands | Call for temporary relocation in 2020

Orginal post here. Justice and Peace Netherlands is launching a new call for human rights defenders at risk to participate in the Shelter City initiative around March 2020. The deadline to apply is 29 November 2019.   Shelter… Read More

Cadasta | Land Rights Challenge Fund

Cadasta has launched its Land Rights Challenge Fund! The Land Rights Challenge Fund is available to help Cadasta’s partners better leverage Cadasta’s innovative technical tools and services to document and secure land and resource rights worldwide. The Land… Read More

CFS 46 | LEGEND | Findings and Key Lessons from LEGEND’s Work on Responsible Land Investments

At the 46th Edition of the Committee on World Food Security, LEGEND (Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development) partners presented their key findings and lessons-learned from LEGEND’s work on responsible land investments. You can download the presentation here.

EADI ISS Conference 2020 | Call for Papers

The European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) announce the 16th EADI General Conference, to be held in The Hague (Netherlands) from Monday 29 June to Thursday 2… Read More

Land Portal and IIED | Launch of the Responsible Land-Based Investment Navigator

The Responsible Land-Based Investment (RLBI) Navigator helps private sector actors identify and access the practical tools and guidelines that are most relevant to their work. It was developed jointly by the Land Portal and the International Institute for… Read More

World Bank | Violence Against Women and Girls Resource Guide: Land Sector Brief

Read the full brief here. A recently published report by the World Bank highlights the intersections between land programs/projects and violence against women and girls. It provides recommendations for policy, as well as institutional and community level interventions… Read More

UN | Senior Expert Consultant Global Land Outlook

The UN Convention to Combat Desertification is looking for a Senior Expert Consultant to co-author/co-edit the 2nd edition of the Global Land Outlook For more information on the vacancy, click here.