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[22/05/2013] Open Access to Weather Data for International Development
Farming communities in Africa and South Asia are becoming increasingly vulnerable to shock as the effects of climate change become a reality. This increased vulnerability, however, comes at a time...
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[21/05/2013] EMPLOYMENT: Senior Program Officer, Agriculture Policies (Seattle, USA)
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving...
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[16/05/2013] LANDac short-term research project report: Large-scale land acquisitions in the former Soviet Union
The post-Soviet land reforms that allowed private ownership of land in Russia and Ukraine, and the recent rise in global interest for land resources have made the fertile land of these countries an...
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[16/05/2013] LANDac short-term research report: Land rights and tenure security in Zimbabwe
In the context of the short term research proposal programme of the IS Academy on Land Governance (LANDac), Ruzivo Trust Zimbabwe and the African Studies Centre in Leiden developed a collaborative...
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[16/05/2013] LANDac short-term research project report: Le nouveau regime foncier rural du Burkina Faso a l'epreuve de strategies locales d'anticipation
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[09/05/2013] Persona non grata
7 may. 2013 AVISO DE PRENSA NRO. 08/13 PERSONA NON GRATA BUENOS AIRES.— El OBSERVATORIO DE CONFLICTOS POR LOS RECURSOS NATURALES («OCRN» u «OBSERVATORIO») ha publicado hoy de manera oficial...
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[09/05/2013] WHO IS DOING WHAT: Tahoe Resources Investor Alert calls Guatemala project a Dangerous Investment
“The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) and MiningWatch Canada warned Tahoe Resources investors against further investment in the Escobal silver project, given lack of...
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[30/04/2013] WHO IS DOING WHAT: The World Bank's Forest Policy
“As the World Bank reviews its environmental and social standards, a major opportunity to overhaul World Bank approach to forests must not be missed.” Read full  analysis on the...
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[25/04/2013] ICARRD Resources
The International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development took place in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2006. A summary Final Report on the conference can be found Here. Attached are the...
Events
[23/04/2013] 2013 Utrecht Summerschool Land Governance for Development
8 - 19 July 2013Utrecht University, the Netherlands In July 2013 LANDac organises the Utrecht Summerschool Land Governance for Development for the fourth time. The two-week intensive course will...
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