2016 LANDac Summer School in Utrecht – pre-registration now open!
Land Governance for Development Period 04 July 2014 – 15 July 2016 (2 weeks) Course location(s) Utrecht (Utrecht city campus), The Netherlands Credits 3.0 ECTS credits + Certificate of Attendance Organizing institution Utrecht University,… Read More
21 December 2015: Urban land grab or fair urbanization?
On 21 December, Nguyen Quang Phuc from the College of Economics (HCE) Hue University, Vietnam, will publicly defend his PhD thesis ‘Urban land grab or fair urbanization?’ in Utrecht – Academiegebouw. Please see Events – urban land grab for… Read More
25/09/2015 New LANDac publication – The moving frontiers of genetically modified soy production
LANDac PhD Lucia Goldfarb and LANDac partner Gemma van der Haar (Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University) have published a new article titled ‘The moving frontiers of genetically modified soy production: shifts in land control… Read More
Now open for registration: Workshop Land Governance & Food Security in Uganda
Now open for registration: LANDac Workshop Land Governance and Food Security in Uganda When: 26-30 October 2015 (5 days, 4 nights) Where: Source of the Nile Hotel, Jinja , Uganda Access to land is… Read More
19/02/2015 Land governance and food security – new knowledge agenda launched
The Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) and the Netherlands Academy on Land Governance (LANDac) have developed a knowledge agenda on land governance and food security. Two activities have been taken up: a scoping study on the linkages between… Read More
New article: Impacts of large-scale farming on local communities’ food security and income levels – Empirical evidence from Oromia Region, Ethiopia
LANDac PhD researcher Maru Shete has published in co-authorship with Dr. Marcel Rutten of the African Studies Centre a new article based on his PhD research in Oromia Region, Ethiopia. The new publication in Land Use Policy looks at… Read More
Report VGGT Masterclass
On 15 April, partners organized a Masterclass on the ‘Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security’ (VGGT). The Masterclass was hosted by the Ministry of… Read More
New article: Natural resource privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa and the challenges for inclusive green growth
LANDac PhD alumnus George Schoneveld and LANDac Chair Annelies Zoomers have published an article entitled ‘Natural resource privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa and the challenges for inclusive green growth’ in the International Development Planning Review (IDPR). Abstract In response… Read More
NOW OPEN: Registration LANDac course ‘Land governance for development’
Large-scale acquisition of land in the global South has received a great deal of interest in the last few years. Especially following the food crisis (2003-08), and stimulated by the growing demand for biofuels, pressure on land continues… Read More
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by Gemma
GSSC Public Lecture: Annelies Zoomers
Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Köln, Germany Wednesday 2 December, 17.45-19.15 Annelies Zoomers, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest in the increasingly contentious issue of ‘land grabbing’ –… Read More