Fair ideas: Solutions for a sustainable planet

Hivos will co-host three sessions at Fair Ideas entitled:Changing mindsets: small-scale farmers in the globalised mindset, Agricultural biodiversity acknowledged and Financing Access to Energy. More information will be available soon at this site and the conference website.

2012 Utrecht Summerschool Land Governance for Development

In July 2012 LANDac organises the third Utrecht Summerschool Land Governance for Development. The two-week intensive course will introduce students to the multiple dimensions of land governance in Africa, Asia, Latin America and beyond. Students will acquire the most up-to-date knowledge on new land pressures and learn how to place these in broader theoretical debates. In addition, they will learn about best practices in land governance from different contexts and on different levels: local,...

Knowledge exploration agricultural biodiversity

This meeting is organized to discuss the needs for, and the content of a  knowledge programme on agricultural biodiversity, resilience and  transformation.

Markets, value chains and development

We herewith invite you to an exiting day; with a program centering on the question what do we actually know about how value chains and markets work for development. In the morning, bilateral dialogues of businesses, NGOs, and governments with researchers aim to make intervention theories explicit and to seek bridges between frameworks of different actors. In the afternoon, small-scale farmers’ agency in setting the development agenda is the focal point of a combination of provocations from La...

Summerschool LANDac

This course is part of the IS-Academy on Land Governance, a partnership of IDS (UU), the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and several other knowledge institutions (ASC Leiden, CDS Wageningen, KIT Amsterdam) and NGOs (Agriterra, HIVOS) and the private sector (Triodos Facet). The IS-academy conducts research and training on how land governance may contribute to equitable and sustainable development in line with the Millennium Development Goals.

Launch LANDac

LANDac is the IS Academy on Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development and aims at bringing together researchers, policy makers and development practitioners in the field of land governance and development. LANDac is a partnership between several Dutch organisations and their Southern partners involved in development-related research, policy and practise. The partners share a concern for increasing land inequality and new land-related conflicts. How can land governance – rules...

First Learning Network Meeting

Sixteen people -- farmer leaders, agribusiness entrepreneurs, researchers, nongovernmental organisations -- from across the world will gather near Geneva from the 26th to the 29th April to decide on the main topics and knowledge gaps that will be worked on until the end of 2011. The Knowledge Programme thus intends to create a structured process, a global space to bring different perspectives from a diversity of actors situated between the field and the global debate, A strong assumption here...