LANDac | Blog Building Towards Ownership: Exploring the Role of a Community Land Trust in Sustainable Development
In this blog, Eva Labrujere explores how local knowledge and a community-based approach can provide a base for a strategic framework to guide sustainable development in Mathare Valley (Nairobi, Kenya). The developed integrative strategic framework aims to build towards overcoming… Read More
ASCL & LARC | Documentary screening on a mining conflict in KwaZulu-Natal: This land
The Land & Accountability Research Centre (LARC) at the University of Cape Town commissioned the vivid documentary film This Land as a way for rural people to bring the untold story of their struggle for rights and accountability on communal land… Read More
European Commission | EU Support to Responsible Land Governance – State of Play 2018
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… Read More
ZOA | Making Land Rights Work: Land Rights Guidelines
Secure access to land and secure use of land, for housing, agricultural and other purposes is one of the cornerstones of making sustainable, positive development possible. As ZOA provides relief, hope and recovery to people impacted by conflicts… Read More
World Bank | Seeking NGOs, governments, donors, and private sector firms with interventions to improve women’s land tenure security
The World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) is seeking NGOs, governments, donors, and private sector firms with interventions designed to improve women’s land tenure security in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. Submission deadline: 5pm US Eastern Standard Time… Read More
Women’s Land Rights | Malawi: Empowering women to claim and demand their land rights (video)
In partnership with LANDac’s ‘Scaling up women’s land rights in Africa’ action research programme, Oxfam in Malawi partnered with Landnet to build capacity of women smallholder farmers to claim and demand their land rights. The project was implemented… Read More
E&S Special Feature | Transforming Conflicts over Natural Resources in the Global South
The journal Ecology & Society has published a special feature on “Transforming Conflicts over Natural Resources in the Global South for Social-Ecological Resilience”. This special feature is edited by Eleanor Fisher, Maarten Bavinck, and Aklilu Amsalu and contains a number… Read More
LANDac | Seminar Climate Displacement
The impacts of climate change increasingly forces people away from their homes and livelihoods. Increased droughts force small-scale farmers to abandon their land and the rising sea level pushes poor families living in delta cities away from their… 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
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
ActionAid | Stronger together: Peasants from Malawi and the Netherlands share knowledge
For a farmer, access to land is crucial, but this access is not self-evident for many women. In December 2018, peasant women from Malawi and the Netherlands came together to exchange their knowledge and experience. The exchange showed that the… Read More