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Improving Large Scale Agriculture Investments

7 May 2018

Mozambique

Uganda

Ghana

Successful agricultural development initiatives associated with poverty reduction have seldom included large-scale land-based investment. Feed the Future focuses on smallholder-led agricultural growth as the principal engine of poverty reduction and food security. Investment in agriculture of all sizes, however, can be constructive and is encouraged by the U.S.

EU suspends its support for Water Towers in view of reported human rights abuses

18 January 2018

Kenya

European Union Ambassador condemns the killing of a member of the Sengwer community and underlines that both indigenous people's rights and Kenya's water towers need protection

Internship: Transparency International Land and Corruption in Africa Program

10 January 2018

Africa

Germany

Application Closing Date - 14 Jan 2018

Job Start Date - As soon as possible

Duration - 3 months or longer, depending on type of internship pursued (see below)

Pay Scale - EUR 450 per month

Location - Berlin, Germany

Blogs

Land Fumbles: The Hangover Effects of the Great Land Grab

7 June 2019

Authors:

Scott Schang

Mozambique

Tanzania

Global

In the past decade, significant international attention focused on “land grabs” in developing countries by companies and others hungry for land to grow food and procure resources for the world’s growing population.

How Satellites can locate potential land grabs in Africa

28 May 2019

Authors:

Dr. Konrad Hentze

Africa

Mozambique

Zambia

Investigate, Expose and Advocate: Stopping illegal environmental destruction and violence against human rights defenders

26 September 2018

Authors:

Gillian Caldwell

Global

We are facing challenges in our collective efforts to ensure that land rights are respected around the world. We are fighting the odds with ever more powerful companies and governments surrounding us. And these forces are all too often working in collusion to drive business forward with a profit at any price mentality -- and at the expense of human rights and the environment.

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Discussions

Towards Sustainable Land Governance in Kenya

Closed

22 August 2017 to 29 September 2017

Global

Kenya

Background

From August 22nd to September 15th 2017 the Land Development and Governance Institute (LDGI) and Land Portal Foundation will co- facilitate an online debate that will involve the contribution of major stakeholders focusing on contemporary Kenyan land governance issues.

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Events

New Perspectives on Acquisitive Prescription

10 May 2018 to 11 May 2018

Location

Het Kasteel

Melkweg 1

Groningen

Netherlands

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NL

Global

Dr Björn Hoops (Groningen) and Dr Ernst Marais (Johannesburg) are organising an international conference, entitled “New perspectives on acquisitive prescription”. The University of Groningen, in collaboration with the University of Johannesburg, will host the event at Het Kasteel, Melkweg 1, in Groningen, The Netherlands, from 10-11 May 2018

Organizations:

University of Groningen

India Land And Development Conference 2018

19 February 2018 to 21 February 2018

Location

India International Centre New Delhi

India

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IN

India

Following up the success of the 1st India Land and Development Conference, this second Annual Conference aims to further this Land-platform to connect local and global issues and discourses and focus conversations on how technology, decentralization, innovation and capacity contribute to improve land governance in India. Over three days, this one of its kind national event on land will catalyse connections among stakeholders, discourses and ideas and promote sharing of good practices, experiences, evidences, issues and challenges. With participants converging from different geographies, sectors and land-disciplines, ILDC2018 will provide a fertile ground to stimulate dialogues, partnerships and networks around land and development in India.

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Library

Understanding Land in the Context of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: A Brief History of Land in Economics

Journal Articles & Books

January 2019

Africa

Latin America and the Caribbean

Asia

Global

In economics, land has been traditionally assumed to be a fixed production factor, both in terms of quantity supplied and mobility, as opposed to capital and labor, which are usually considered to be mobile factors, at least to some extent.

Annual Report on Human Rights Defenders at Risk in 2017

Reports & Research

January 2018

Global

As human rights defenders around the world put their lives on the line to challenge dictators, destructive multi-national corporations, religious conservatives, and oppressive regimes, there pervades a well-resourced and coordinated strategy of defamation, criminalisation and violence deployed to intimidate, marginalise and silence peaceful, powerful activists. The human cost has been h

Rethinking Expropriation Law: Compensation for Expropriation

Conference Papers & Reports

September 2017

Global

Africa

South Africa

Ireland

Germany

Netherlands

The Groningen Centre for Law and Governance (GCLG) and the University of Cape Town collaborated with the Global Land Tool Network and True Price to convene the fourth annual colloquium on Expropriation Law in Cape Town.

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Organizations

Andrew Chilombo

PhD Student, University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences

Economic valuation of ecosystem services for improved land governance and livelihoods: case study in large scale land acquisitions in Zambia

Land Development and Governance Institute (LDGI)

MISSION: To contribute to improved livelihoods through offering a bridge between communities, stakeholders and policy makers in the promotion of equitable access and sustainable management of land and natural resources.

VISION: To become a centre of excellence in promoting the application of appropriate land policies, laws and management practices by empowering society through innovative and knowledge based advocacy and capacity building in Kenya and the region.

LDGI values of Integrity, Trust and Professionalism influence the way we work every day and everywhere.

National Land Commission (NLC)

OUR VISION

Excellent administration and management of land for sustainable development

OUR MISSION

To implement an efficient land administration and management system in order to ensure equity in access to land

CORE VALUES

Efficiency
Transparency and Accountability
Innivativeness
Integrity
Professionalism
Rule Of Law
Independence

MOTTO

Nicholas K. Tagliarino (NKT)

The legal data collected for Nicholas Tagliarino's dissertation and posted on Land Book examines whether national expropriation, compensation, and resettlement laws in developing countries are adopting international standards designed to secure tenure rights and ensure responsible land governance. The analysis conducted for this dataset is based on Section 16 of the UN Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure, which establishes standards on expropriation, compensation, and resettlement.

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