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Romy leads the development of Land Portal's Country and Thematic portfolios, as well as the curation and ingestion of land-related publications and statistical datasets.
She is a communications specialist and policy advisor/project manager with 19 years of experience. She has worked previously with Embrapa (Brazil), CIFOR, FAO, GIZ, amongst other organizations on topics such as community forest management, payments for environmental services and agriculture & food security policy.
For the last 8 years her work has focused on land governance while as a project manager. In 2015 she supported the Global Donor Working Group on Land to advocate and secure SDG indicator 1.4.2 on land tenure security.
Romy holds a BA in Journalism from the Federal University of Pará, Brazil, and an MSc in Environmental Governance from the University of Freiburg, Germany.
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The Impact of Unimplemented Large-Scale Land Development Deals
Article published in the Journal: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.
The value of so-called ‘failed’ large-scale land acquisitions
The land rush has remained, and is likely to remain, a significant global phenomenon despite waning international media attention. The scope of the phenomenon is likely to be wider than previously thought.
Caught in the Web of Bureaucracy? How ‘Failed’ Land Deals Shape the State in Tanzania
After more than ten years of hectic debates on international ‘land grabs’, academic interest in collapsed land deals or projects with unexpected results is growing. According to the Land Matrix, Tanzania is one of the target countries for such deals, with a number ‘abandoned’ or delayed and projects whose status is unknown. Labelling land deals as ‘failed’ poses conceptual and methodological challenges as long as the criteria for ‘failure’ are undefined.
Understanding Land Deals in Limbo in Africa: A Focus on Actors, Processes, and Relationships
This publication serves as an introduction to a collection of articles published in the African Studies Review. It discusses the implications of as well as the question through what actors, processes, and relationships land deals become stalled or partially implemented. The reviewed articles draw on long-term, in-depth ethnographic research of land deals in Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia.
They came, looked and left: The legacy of large-scale land deals that failed
A review of four recent articles about an underexplored issue: the reasons for large-scale land deals to fail and what that means for communities and society
Data Compatibility in Linking Land Degradation and Tenure Security
This data story investigates the challenges to align action on land degradation and tenure security based on the screening of available datasets in both domains.
The Voluntary Guidelines: A Data Deficit? (PDF version)
This is the PDF version of an online data story about the impacts of the VGGT, published by Land Portal on 4 October 2022.
Three territorial disputes you may not have heard of
Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, this What to Read digest reviews three articles that explore different, lesser-known territorial disputes - all of them in Asia.