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Location

Utrecht
Netherlands
NL

LANDac, the Netherlands Academie on Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development, is a partnership between Dutch organizations working on land governance. The partners are the International Development Studies (IDS) group at Utrecht University (leading partner), African Studies Centre, Agriterra, the Sociology of Development and Change (SDC) group at Wageningen University, the Land Portal Foundation, HIVOS, the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Enclude Solutions. LANDac is one of the IS-Academies, a series of programs sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to improve and strengthen linkages between academia and development practitioners in the field of international cooperation (IS Academies for International Cooperation)

LANDac aims at bringing together researchers, policy makers and development practitioners in the field of land governance and development. The LANDac network conducts research, brings together actors and distributes information, focusing on new pressures and competing claims on land and natural resources. LANDac studies the impact of large-scale land deals in agriculture for food production andf biofuels, urbanization, tourism; and the role of land laws, reforms, regulations, and voluntary guidelines and principles, in dealing with new pressures. LANDac has six PhD research projects and several related PhDs; moreover, 17 short-term research projects have been carried out in collaboration with Southern partners.

Mission

LANDac, the IS Academy on Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development, aims at bringing together researchers, policy makers and practitioners in the field of land governance and development.

Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development

LANDac is a partnership between several Dutch organisations and their Southern partners involved in development-related research, policy and practice. The partners share a concern for increasing land inequality and new land-related conflicts, and how land governance – rules and practices on access to land – can be used to promote equitable and sustainable development in the Global South.

LANDac is one of the IS Academies for International Cooperation sponsored by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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The project intends to do a research that will contribute to Oxfam's broader efforts to promote a responsible and inclusive land governance system in the country that enables transparent and accountable customary land acquisitions processes and procedures for private investment The project is also intended to achieve a competitive and profitable Malawian tea industry where workers earn a living wage and smallholders earn a living income. It also aims for significant improvements in general working and living conditions of tea estate workers, especially women.

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General

With the LANDac Land Forum we aim to discuss in a multi-stakeholder platform under what conditions foreign and domestic agribusiness can contribute to food security and inclusive and sustainable development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We invite a small selection of policy makers, civil society representatives, researchers and private sector stakeholders for three Forums (to be held in 2013, 2014 and 2015) during which they address this issue based on their own experiences on the ground.

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