"A new Handbook on Community Engagement, published by the South Sudan Law Society (SSLS), for the first time provides communities, companies, and government institutions involved with land deals...
Tourism and conservation
Research papers, 04/2012,
"Across the world, ‘green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. In recent years there has been a...
Research papers, 04/2012,
Since 2008, the rush for land in developing countries has rapidly intensified but the sector remains largely unregulated and land deals are frequently agreed in secret between governments and...
Events, 11/06/2012 (All day), International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATIONS: 20 May 2012
"By June 2012, there will two journal special issues that will be available, namely, ‘Green grabbing: a new appropriation of nature’ (Journal of Peasant...
Events, 01/05/2012 (All day), Utrecht University
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATIONS: 1 May 2012
The two-week intensive course will introduce students to the multiple dimensions of land governance in Africa, Asia, Latin America and beyond. Students learn...
Research papers,
Comunicado de prensa en adjunto – Communiqué de presse en pièce jointe
On the 26th of April in Washington, during the Land and Poverty Conference organised by the World Bank, the Land Matrix...
Events, 31/05/2012 (All day), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 31 May 2012
"The organizers invite papers that offer rigorous and innovative analysis on the issues listed below. Papers based on recent, original field research are...
Press, Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources, 12 January 2012,
"We of the "Joint Secretariat of the Indonesian Movement for Recovering People’s Rights", is an alliance of Farmers, Workers, Indigenous People, Women, Youth, Students, Village Governance, and NGOs....
Press, mongabay.com, 28 December 2011,
"2011 was designated as "Year of the Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened...
Research papers, 12/2011,
"This paper is based on an empirical research commissioned by the UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) on the state and trends in ‘land grabbing’ in seventeen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (...
Events, 19/12/2011 (All day), Dakar, Senegal
The International Land Coalition, Oakland Institute and Global Witness have been developing a research and dialogue project which aims to identify priorities and opportunities for improving...
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