On Tuesday 9 October 2012, LANDac together with ActionAid and the African Studies Center organised the seminar Kenya Land Reform: From Paper to Practice. Will Kenya’s new land bills safeguard people’s land rights and food security?
Kenyan ActionAid activist David Barissa shed his light on the new land legislation in the country, followed by reflections by Marcel Rutten (ASC) and Caroline Archambault (UU), and a general discussion.
The report of this event is available here.
For more information on land grab in Kenya and its implications for smallholder farmers, an interesting study on the Tana River Delta was conducted by the Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF) in 2010: ‘Land Grab in Kenya – Implications for Small-holder farmers’:
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by admin
Summerschool 2013 coming up in July
From 8-19 July 2013 LANDac organises the fourth Utrecht Summerschool Land Governance for Development.
The two-week intensive course will introduce students to the multiple dimensions of land governance in Africa, Asia, Latin America and beyond. Students will acquire the most up-to-date knowledge on new land pressures and learn how to place these in broader theoretical debates. In addition, they will learn about best practices in land governance from different contexts and on different levels: local, national and international. The guiding question is how to optimize the link between land governance, sustainable development and poverty alleviation. At the end of this course students will have a thorough knowledge of current problems related to land and development, but they will also have practical knowledge of possible solutions. The topics are discussed in mini-courses including lectures and solution-oriented practicals led by recognised experts from academia, policy and practice. The course is useful for Masters’ students, academics and practitioners from anywhere in the world who are interested in or work in the fields of land governance, development studies, natural resource management, conflict studies etc.
More information and registration here. A detailed programme will be available soon.
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by admin
Short article on land grab in Latin America (in Dutch)
In December 2012 LA Chispa published a background article on land in Latin America: “Land for sale: five questions and answers on the ‘land grab’ in Latin America” (in Dutch). Click here to read the article.
LA Chispa is a Dutch Magazine on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by admin
Report: round-table “Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in the context of land governance”
On 28 November 2012, LANDac and Oxfam Novib organised a round-table discussion on Free Prior and Informed Consent in the context of land governance, with Marcus Colchester (Director Forest Peoples Programme) as the main presenter and Kristen Genovese (Center for International Environmental Law) as a discussant. The event took place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague and was attended by about 25 representatives from NGOs, policy and academia.
A report of the roundtable discussion is available here.
Marcus Colchester’s presentation can be viewed here.
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by admin
Report: seminar Kenya land reform – from paper to practice
On Tuesday 9 October 2012, LANDac together with ActionAid and the African Studies Center organised the seminar Kenya Land Reform: From Paper to Practice. Will Kenya’s new land bills safeguard people’s land rights and food security?
Kenyan ActionAid activist David Barissa shed his light on the new land legislation in the country, followed by reflections by Marcel Rutten (ASC) and Caroline Archambault (UU), and a general discussion.
The report of this event is available here.
For more information on land grab in Kenya and its implications for smallholder farmers, an interesting study on the Tana River Delta was conducted by the Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF) in 2010: ‘Land Grab in Kenya – Implications for Small-holder farmers’:
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by admin
New publications on Land
Recently various institutions have released reports on land governance and large-scale land acquisitions. Some of the main recent reports are mentioned here:
Deutsche Bank (DB Research). Foreign investment in farmland. No low-hanging fruit. November 2012.
Oxfam. ‘Our Land, Our Lives’. Time out on the global land rush. October 2012.
ActionAid. Lay of the Land. Improving land governance to stop land grabs. October 2012.
International Land Coalition. Land Governance in the 21st century: framing the debate series:
Nr 1: Land Governance in Africa. How historical context has shaped key contemporary issues relating to policy on land (by Kojo Sebastian Amanor)
Nr2: Land Governance in Brazil. A geo-historical review of land governance in Brazil (by Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, Clifford Andrew Welch, Elienai Constantino Gonçalves)
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by admin
Grootschalige landverwerving in Afrika: artikel internationale spectator
A new article by Annelies Zoomers (chair LANDac) in Internationale Spectator of July-August 2012 analyses large-scale land acquisitions in Africa. Click here for the article (in Dutch).
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by admin
Country factsheets updatedy
In July 2012, all 15 country factsheets have been updated. They can be accessed here. The factsheets present the relevant policy and institutional contexts with respect to land governance.
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by admin
European Report on Development 2011-2012 published: focus on water, energy and land scarcity
The 2011-2012 European Report on Development “Confronting Scarcity: Managing water, energy and land for inclusive and sustainable growth” and accompanying papers are now available online here. Various LANDac partners (Utrecht University, Royal Tropical Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs) have contributed to the report with a number of research papers on the issue of land.
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by admin
Hivos-IIED provocation on small-scale farming and youth report online
On the 24th of May 2012, Hivos and IIED organised a provocative seminar on small-scale farming and youth in an era of rapid rural change. This provocation was the sixth and last in a series being initiatied by the IIED/Hivos Knowledge Programme Small Procuder Agency in Globalised Markets. More information and the online report can be found here.
Last Updated: 26th July 2019 by admin
Successful third edition of the Utrecht Summerschool Land Governance for Development completed
In July 2012 LANDac organised the third Utrecht Summerschool Land Governance for Development. The two-week intensive course introduced students to the multiple dimensions of land governance in Africa, Asia, Latin America and beyond. 25 Students from 16 different countries all over the world participated in the summerschool. They acquired up-to-date knowledge from LANDac partners and guest lecturers on new land pressures, theoretical debates, and best practices in land governance. A more extensive report will follow soon; the programme can be found here. LANDac will organise the summerschool again in 2013.