LANDac International Conference 2017. Leave No One Behind: Setting the Land Agenda to 2030

The LANDac Annual International Conference 2017 – Leave no one behind: setting the land agenda to 2030, will look back over the decade since the global land rush phenomenon began, analysing the processes of transformations that have taken place in those locations where land-based investments have been made and revisiting the understanding of implications of these investment flows for food security, rural livelihoods and local development.  The conference will take the all-encompassing SDGs agenda as a starting point to explore how land governance can contribute to meeting SDGs targets, and ultimately help to end poverty in all its forms everywhere (Goal 1). Providing people with secure and equal access to land is indeed fundamental in realising this objective but important also for other goals, 9, 11, 13 and 15, which will be equally discussed in the framework of the “land governance” debate. 

Topics highlighted during the conference will include, among others: food security; infrastructure development; displacement, migration and mobility; compensation and resettlement; cities and urban expansion; inclusive development; conflict and competing claims; natural resources and environmental protection; gender and generation; and administration and technologies; and climate change and resilience.

In preparation of the event, LANDac invites to submit by the 31 January 2017 short abstracts developing innovative ideas on the above mentioned and related topics. 

The conference will be followed by the Annual Summer School “Land Governance for Development” from 3rd to 14th July 2017 at Utrecht University.