New website: focus on land in Africa
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
Call for papers World Bank Land & Poverty Conference 2014
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
DFID to scale up Land portfolio
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
Csr in the agro-food sector
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
Global Donor Working Group on Land launched
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
Land conflicts in Brazil on Dutch television: Nieuwsuur
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
Sugar rush and land rights
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
Vacancies PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
PBL, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, offers four vacancies linked to work on Global Food Systems and natural resource scarcity. The vacancies can be accessed through this link: http://www.pbl.nl/en/aboutpbl/vacancies.
Updated Land Matrix now available
The updated data-sets of the Land Matrix are now available via the Land Matrix website: www.landmatrix.org. The Land Matrix is a tool that aims to contribute to transparency in large-scale land deals. The updated information now differentiates between… Read More
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by admin
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.