category: CONFERENCES & SEMINARS
This blog, which is part of a wider global initiative on Commercial Pressures on Land led by the International Land Coalition, contains press reports, research papers, case studies and any other relevant information about the new wave of “commercial pressures on land” that poor rural land-users are facing all over the world.
It seeks to provide updated information to all those trying to monitor, quantify and understand the extent of this ongoing phenomenon.
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EVENT “Land matters: small farmer, large farmer, land grabber”
Posted on 16 July, 2010 No comments
Overseas Development Institute (ODI)29 July 2010
17.30-19.00 (GMT+01(BST))
“Land policy in Africa has long been keenly debated. Do customary forms of tenure offer security and thereby allow farmers to invest and innovate? Programmes to register formally land rights and allocate freehold titles have often been proposed; but they may be unnecessary, and furthermore may lead to those with secondary, temporary and precarious rights to land losing access completely. Read the rest of this entry »
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The scramble for land and environmental degradation in Oromia
Posted on 14 July, 2010 No comments
Pambazuka, 14 July 2010Photo by 10bTravelling/Flickr
“The 4th annual London International Oromo Workshop (LIOW) conference, held in London, on the 3rd July 2010, attended by researchers, human rights activists, journalists, NGO representatives, and delegates from Canada, USA, Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Italy, Africa, France, Switzerland and UK, examined land grabbing and its impact on the environment, food sovereignty and security. Read the rest of this entry »
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS, press (english), *Africa*, environmental degradation, food production, food security, food sovereignity, land rights, mining, [Ethiopia] -
Mise à jour: FAO Directives Voluntaires, Consultation régionale de l’Afrique francophone
Posted on 12 July, 2010 No comments
Vous pouvez trouver ci-joint le compte-rendu final de la consultation régionale en Afrique francophone, qui s’est tenue du 23 au 25 juin dernier à Ouagadougou, pour l’élaboration de directives volontaires sur la gouvernance responsable de la tenure des terres et des autres ressources naturelles.Evaluation régionale de l’Afrique francophone
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS (french), *Africa*, land rights -
EVENT: Pacific Consultation “FAO Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Land and Natural Resources Tenure”
Posted on 09 July, 2010 No comments
Apia, Samoa 14-16 July 2010
Co-organized with FAO Subregional Office for the Pacific Islands and the University of the South Pacific
“The Voluntary Guidelines are to assist States, civil society and the private sector in improving the governance of tenure, and thus contribute to alleviating hunger and poverty, empowering the poor and vulnerable, enhancing the environment, supporting national and local economic development, and reforming public administration. Read the rest of this entry »
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS (english), *Asia*, land rights -
Call for Papers: Politics of the Global Land Grab
Posted on 07 July, 2010 No comments
Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC), The Journal of Peasants Studies, Land Deals Politics Initiative (LDPI)Deadline 31 October 2010
The Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC) is hosting an international workshop on ‘Global Land Grabbing’ at IDS in Brighton on 6 - 8 April 2011. In advance, FAC has issued a call for papers, with a submission deadline of 31 October 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
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Manila forum to mull farmland purchases in developing countries
Posted on 07 July, 2010 No comments
Irinnews, 7 July 2010Photo by Webzer/Flickr
“A two-day “Investment Forum for Food Security in Asia and the Pacific” opened in Manila on 7 July, and will look at escalating food prices, concerns about food production and overseas leases or purchases of farmland in developing countries. Some 400 participants from 25 countries will discuss innovations and good practice in promoting sustainable and inclusive food security. Read the rest of this entry »
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CSO Regional Consultation for Europe, Central and West Asia on FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Land and Natural Resource
Posted on 05 July, 2010 No comments
Rome, Italy7-9 July 2010
FAO Headquarters – German Room (Building C – Room 269)
OBJECTIVES of the meeting:
• To prepare the Regional(s) input(s) for the CSO document (to be elaborated after all CSO consultation meetings)
• To identify and to make an inventory of key problems related to land and NR tenure in Europe and Central and West Asia.
• To propose solutions to these problems.
• To identify what people expect from these guidelines and from FAO. Read the rest of this entry »
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS (english), (french), (spanish), *Asia*, *EU*, food security, land rights -
Call for Papers: Governance and small-scale agriculture in West Africa
Posted on 05 July, 2010 No comments
African democracy institute Idasa is to hold a conference in Nairobi, Kenya, from 8-10 November, on “Governance and Small-scale Agriculture in West Africa”. It will examine governance and public investment processes and how these are shaping small-scale agriculture in the region.“This conference will be a follow up to an Idasa conference on small-scale agriculture in Southern Africa, held in Johannesburg at the end of 2009, where participants noted a need to move away from a reliance on donor funding, as donor agencies often dictate the recipients’ development agenda.
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS, Opportunities (english), *Africa*, agriculture, food security, policies and laws -
Land tenure and international investment in agriculture
Posted on 28 June, 2010 No comments
Global Food Security and Nutrition Dialogue, 28 June 2010Comments by the 4 civil society members of the CFS Advisory Group on how the CFS should address this issue at the 36th Session of the CFS in October.
AGENDA ITEM VII
i. Land issues are at the core of the food and climate crisis. The lack of adequate and secure access to land and natural resources by the rural and urban poor is one of the key causes of hunger and poverty in the world. Unsustainable uses of land and natural resources are one of the key drivers of global warming and environmental destruction. Unfortunately, the policy responses to address the food and climate crisis have so far neglected to properly deal with land and natural resources issues. Read the rest of this entry »
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EVENT: Investment Forum for Food Security in Asia and the Pacific
Posted on 26 June, 2010 No comments
Asian Development Bank (ADB) HeadquartersManila, Philippines, 7-9 July 2010
“The Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) are co-organizing the first regional forum on food security to showcase Asia and the Pacific as an attractive region for increased public and private sector investments on food security related initiatives.
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS (english), *Asia*, food security