The Land and Poverty conference will present the latest research and practice on the diversity of reforms, interventions, and innovations in the land sector around the world. The 2018 conference theme will be: Land Governance in an interconnected World For more information visit conference website Following research will be presented by our partners in […]
5 Vacant PhD Positions at Faculty of Landscape and Society
Urban groundwater governance International Environment and Development Studies - Global politics of agrarian transformation International Environment and Development Studies – Transformations to sustainability Urban sustainable development and social/spatial inequalities The application deadline for all the positions is April 9th, 2018.
USAID’s free online course on Land Tenure and Property Rights
Rights to land and resources are at the center of our most pressing development issues: poverty reduction, food security, resource management, conflict, urbanization, gender equality, and resilience. Secure Land Tenure and Property Rights (LTPR) create incentives for investment, broad-based economic growth, and good stewardship of natural resources. Insecure property rights and weak land governance […]
Global Land Forum: United for Land Rights, Peace & Justice
When: September 22-27, 2018 Where: Bandung, Indonesia. The theme – United for Land Rights, Peace & Justice – emphasizes the ‘ILC family’ nature of the event, to take full advantage of the potential of the growing network with an increasing emphasis on how to engage with governments in countries to promote people-centred land governance, It will focus on […]
Call for Abstracts: Fourth Annual FLARE Network Meeting
Fourth Annual FLARE Network Meeting October 17-20, 2018 University of Copenhagen, Denmark The FLARE (Forests and Livelihoods: Assessment, Research, and Engagement) network, supported by DFID and coordinated from the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for our 4th annual meeting. This year’s meeting […]
EMPLOYMENT: Senior Research Assistant (SRA)/Research Analyst (RA) at IFPRI
The Environment and Production Technology Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks a qualified candidate to fill the position of Senior Research Assistant (SRA)/Research Analyst (RA). This is a full time one-year, fixed-term, renewable appointment. This position is based at IFPRI headquarters in Washington, DC. A successful candidate will provide research support to mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) studies on natural resource management (NRM), with a particular focus on gender and institutional issues. The SRA/RA would also play a critical role in communications and capacity building to apply research findings to policy and practice, and assist others to understand the implications of the research.
15 Marie Sklodowska-Curie PhD Positions
Overview On behalf of the WEGO-ITN, The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam is pleased to announce the recruitment of 15 Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) PhD positions (Early Stage Researchers). WEGO-ITN’s consortium is made up of scholar-activists working on feminist political ecology from ten institutions in five European Union countries: Germany, Italy, Sweden, The Netherlands […]
Land and Poverty Conference 2018: Land Governance in an Interconnected World
The Land and Poverty conference will be held on March 19 - 23, 2018. The conference present the latest research and practice on the diversity of reforms, interventions, and innovations in the land sector around the world. The 2018 conference theme will be: Land Governance in an Interconnected World The conference has become one of the […]
EMPLOYMENT:Senior Land Rights Researcher at IIED
The purpose of this role will be to develop and manage action research programmes that will strengthen local rights and promote sustainable development in the governance of land and investment. The role will include leading the design, implementation and monitoring of policy-orientated action-research and conducting collaborative research with colleagues and/or partner organisations in low- and […]
PUBLICATION: Finding Common Ground
The latest thematic edition of the Green European Journal investigates the commons and reveals the wide-ranging spectrum of definitions and applications of this concept that exist across Europe. Yet from the numerous local initiatives, social movements and governance models associated with this term – is it possible to identify the outline of a commons-based approach that could […]