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Article: Learning from Africana critical theory: A historicized contextualization of the impacts of Mozambique’s natural gas project

By Emilinah Namaganda, Kei Otsuki, and Griet Steel Over the past decade, Mozambique’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the province of Cabo Delgado has symbolized a new development opportunity for the country. The project attracted foreign investments to… Read More

Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities

Edited by Annelies Zoomers, Professor of International Development Studies and Maggi Leung, Kei Otsuki and Guus Van Westen, Associate Professors, Department of Human Geography and Planning, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. This timely Handbook demonstrates that global linkages, flows… Read More

Roads to Change: Livelihoods, Land Disputes, and Anticipation of Future Developments in Rural Kenya 

Roads to Change: Livelihoods, Land Disputes, and Anticipation of Future Developments in Rural Kenya  This article by Greiner, Greven and Klagge examines how rural roads relate to differences in livelihood patterns, attitudes toward social change, and land disputes in… Read More

Perspective | Five insights on internal displacement and human rights for Asia and the Pacific in terms of the Paris Agreements

In this perspective article, author Albert Salamanca, Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute’s Asia Centre, shares five insights on internal displacement and human rights for Asia in terms of the Paris Agreements. These insights have emerged… Read More

LAND at lunch: The conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia, from a land governance perspective

LAND at lunch The conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia, from a land governance perspective On December 9, from 12.00 – 13.00 CEST (14.00 – 15.00 EAT) LANDac organizes a lunch seminar to discuss the ongoing events in northern Ethiopia…. Read More

GLP | COVID-19, reverse migration, and the impact on land systems

Recently published blog by Sébastien Boillat and dr. Julie Zähringer on the impact of COVID-19 and reverse migration on land systems; “The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world abruptly, affecting nearly all of humanity with breath-taking speed. At… Read More

University of Amsterdam | Junior Researcher Housing Market and Migrants in the Netherlands

Are you interested in conducting research, especially in the field of the housing market and migrants in the Netherlands?  This short term research project is a collaboration of the University of Amsterdam (GPIO) and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment… Read More

Land Portal | Data Story – Pastoralists in Iran: Flexible sustainable use-rights solutions in the semi-arid area of Maymand

The Land Portal Foundation has published a new Data Story by Abolfazl Sharifian Bahraman and Dr. Hossein Barani – “Pastoralists in Iran: Flexible sustainable use-rights solutions in the semi-arid area of Maymand”.

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… Read More

LANDac | Annual International Conference Report 2018

The LANDac Annual International Conference 2018 looked at land governance through the lens of mobility. Land acquisitions trigger migration and yield other types of mobility such as capital, goods and ideas. Ensuing land claims raise new questions for… Read More