Land

EarthRights International (ERI) is recruiting candidates for the seven-month program titled “Community Leadership for Earth Rights.” The curriculum integrates storytelling and legal advocacy strategies used to address earth rights abuses caused by large-scale development projects, with a strong focus on land rights, environmental and social impact ...

First Regional Workshop on the 1st Draft of the MRC’s Preliminary Guidelines for Wetland Inventory, WEFASAM and WBIA  will be held on January 4-5, 2018 at the Office of the Mekong River Commission Secretariat in Vientiane, Lao PDR.The two-day workshop is to discuss ten-selected international/sensitive wetland sites ...

When: 28th and 29th June 2018 Where: Muntgebouw, Utrecht, the Netherlands Topic: Land governance and (im)mobility:  Exploring the nexus between land acquisition, displacement and migration. Submissions for the Annual International Conference 2018 will be accepted until 11 February 2018. For more information and submission, please visit here ...

The Land Potential-Knowledge System (LandPKS; landpotential.org), a joint USAID-USDA program, was created to help put valuable information about the land, including climate, soils, and vegetation, in the hands of land managers across the world.Keep reading ...

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has published its Global Land Outlook titled “THE BIG PICTURE: LAND UNDER PRESSURE”.The current pressures on land are huge and expected to continue growing: there is rapidly escalating competition between the demand for land functions that provide food, water, ...

MLIKE (Mekong Land Information and Knowledge Exchange) will host an online dialogue on the theme of ‘Responsible Large Scale Agricultural Investment in the Mekong’ in collaboration with the Mekong Region Land Governance project (MRLG) and the Land Portal. The objective of the dialogue is to offer ...

Nationals of Lower Mekong countries are encouraged to apply for a newly open position with Mekong region Land Governance’s MLIKE platform. From the job announcement: MRLG seeks a supportive, proactive and organised Administration Officer to assist our project team. They should be a team player and great ...

The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) is conducting a training on course on ‘Mainstreaming free, prior and informed consent in forest governance and climate change’, to be held on September 18-23 in Bangkok, Thailand. Read the details of the event below, and apply at ...

Asia Indigenous Peoples’ Network (AIPP) has published the statement of the Network of Indigenous Peoples in Thailand (NIPT), delivered by AIPP Chair Kittisak Rattana at the 7th  ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry in Chiang Mai, Thailand.Read the full statement below and at AIPP’s website.—ASEAN ...

Open-access journal Water is calling for papers and contributions for an upcoming special issue covering the Water-Energy-Food nexus in the Greater Mekong Subregion. See below for the call in full, or over at their site.—Dear Colleagues,The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is a prime exemplar of the ...