Welcome to the LANDac 2021 conference! LANDac co-chairs dr Guus van Westen (Utrecht University) and dr Gemma van der Haar (Wageningen University) will officially open the conference, followed by two key note speeches by dr Shuaib Lwasa (Governance at the Global Center on Adaptation) and dr Wytske Chamberlain (Land Matrix, Africa RFP, hosted by the University of Pretoria), moderated by Prof Richard Sliuzas (ITC University of Twente).
land governance, food security, inclusive business
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Gemma van der Haar
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Shuaib Lwasa
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Global Center on Adaptation
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Principal Researcher on Governance
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Dr Shuaib Lwasa is a Principal Researcher on Governance at the Global Center on Adaptation. Shuaib has over 22 years experiences of university teaching and research as Professor of Urban Sustainability at Makerere University. He has worked extensively on interdisciplinary research projects focused on African cities but also in South Asia. His publications are in the areas of urban mitigation of and adaptation to climate change, urban environmental management, spatial planning, and disaster risk reduction, urban sustainability. Shuaib is a Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC WG III Chapter 8 “Urban Systems and Human Settlements” and Lead Author for the IPCC Special report on Land and Climate Change.
Richard Sliuzas
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ITC University of Twente
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Professor of Urban Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction
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spatial planning, GIS, earth observation, DRR, spatial analysis and modelling
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see https://research.utwente.nl/en/persons/richard-sliuzas
Chantal Wieckardt
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Universiteit Utrecht
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Coordinator
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Social scientist with a research interest in sustainable development, nature conservation and land governance, particularly in (Southeast) Asia.
Anniko Kanters
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NetworkTables
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Account Executive
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Online events
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Joanny Bélair
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Utrecht University
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Postdoctoral Researcher
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Igor Milosevic
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NetworkTables
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Customer Succes Manager
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Krisna Yulianta
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Alliance of Volunteers to Save Nature (Aliansi Relawan untuk Penyelamatan Alam or ARUPA)
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staff
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social forestry
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Shaswati Chowdhury
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Chalmers University of Technology
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Doctoral student
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Urban Greenspace, land management and governace, brownfield remediation, Circular Economy, Sustainability
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Charlotte Stam
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Utrecht University
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Research intern
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Teddy Kisembo
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Urban Action Lab
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Urban Action Lab
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Urban development Land and housing and inequality
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mart stoffels
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Gwen van Boven
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Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment
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Senior Advisor International Cooperation
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Dominique Schmid
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Universiteit Utrecht
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PhD researcher
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Gemma Betsema
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RVO
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Programme Advisor LAND-at-scale
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Everything land governance :)
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Programme Advisor for RVO's LAND-at-scale programme, responsible for our projects in Egypt, Mozambique, Palestinian Territories, Somalie. Also in charge of Monitoring and Evaluation of the programme.
Esther Obaikol
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IGAD
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Goordinator Land Governance Program
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A Ugandan lawyer with twenty-six (26) years of accumulated work experience with Seventeen (17) of those years in leadership positions at national leading civil society organizations and coalitions, leading the regional program on land and global level leading networks, coalitions, and thematic engagements at the United Nations. I have twenty-two (22) years’ experience in land governance, Seventeen (17) years in piloting innovations in gender and land, and tenure security, fourteen (14) years’ experience in organizational development & management, partnership and network building at national, regional and global levels; and five (5) years’ experience in environmental governance focusing on legal and social research, monitoring and evaluation, and policy advocacy.
Gerard Baltissen
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KIT-Royal Tropical Institute
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Senior Advisor Land Governance, Knowledge management
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Margriet Hartman
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Royal HaskoningDHV
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Environmental and social expert
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social impacts
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Arach David James
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Namati
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Senior Program Officer
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Land Governance
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Passionate about land rights and tenure security
Caleb Johnson
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World Bank
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Land Administration Specialist
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Sara Mohamed
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Ronald Kaweesi
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Makerere University, School of Built Environment
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Lecturer
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Land Management, Valuation and Digital Transformation
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Passionate about Land Management and its related innovations and digital transformation
Paul Drenning
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Chalmers University of Technology
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PhD Student
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Cristobal Loeda
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Shell
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Social Performance Advisor
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Megan Olson
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Landesa
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Sandra Samantela
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University of the Philippines - Los Baños
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Assistant Professor
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Environmental Planner, Land Governance Specialist
Barbara Codispoti
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Oxfam
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Jimmy Ochom
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Oxfam Novib
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Land Rights Coordinator
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Land administration Land policy and legislation Land registration Land information systems Cadastral development Land reform Land use planning.
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Jimmy is an Environmental Human Rights Lawyer, a specialist in land policy and Natural Resources Conflict Management, he is also currently the Land Rights Lead at Oxfam in Uganda, and supports Oxfam Global team on advocacy work on Land rights, Food Security, and Climate Justice. He is an Expert on the Political Economy of Land Governance in Africa. He has worked as the Programs Manager at the Uganda Land Alliance. He has been progressively working for and with several organizations that look at improving access to Justice through litigation and ADR. He has managed several research programs on Land Access and Conflict in Uganda. He managed research on The Role of Women’s Land Rights Advocates in partnership with the University of Essex, UK, and the Robert Bosch Foundation. Jimmy worked with Uganda Land Alliance and has implemented several Natural Resources Governance projects and developed experience in Climate Justice, Protection of Human Rights, Access to Justice and Gender Equality through land rights advocacy,
Jan Hendrickx
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VSF-Belgium
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Samson Orao
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ActionAid International in Kenya
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Programs and Strategy Lead
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A passionate development worker, keen on equity and making the world a better place for all of us! A singer as well!
Alphonse Kossonou
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Unilever
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Cocoa Sustainable Sourcing Consultant
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Evangelia Balla
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University of Twente
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Researcher
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Land Policy, Cadastres, Land Registration, Land Tenure Security
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/eballa/
Molatelo Mohale
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Nkuzi Development Association
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Programme Officer
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Land and Writting
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I am an activist and a writer. Currently working at Nkuzi and LandNNES - Working Group Convenor
Ayuo Ketta
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ActionAid International Kenya
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Project Manager
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Advocacy, Campaigns and Lobbying
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Michael J. Strauss
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Centre d'Etudes Diplomatiques et Stratégiques
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Professor
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Akbikesh Mukhtarova
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Nazarbayev University
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Ph.D candidate
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Stephanie Burgos
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Oxfam
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Annie McKee
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The James Hutton Institute
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Social Researcher
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Land reform and social justice issues relating to land and communities.
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I am a qualitative social researcher at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland. research My research focusses on land reform and social justice issues relating to land, agriculture, and rural communities in Scotland, and internationally.
Outwith academia I have been involved with community land activities (e.g. around affordable housing) and land acquisition processes across Scotland.
Clarisse Marsac
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International Institute for Environment and Development
Human geographer, working in the Lake Titicaca region of the Andes in Peru and Bolivia
James Kavanagh
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RICS
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Director - Land & Resources
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Muna Mohamed
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Land Sea Maldives
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Co-founder
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Land rights, climate change, womens economic empowerment
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advocator for rights of women and communities and negative effects of development induced forced migration, land rights in Maldives.
Nzira de Deus
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Forum Mulher - world march of women Mozambique
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Executive Director
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Women´s rigths and gender equality
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Social activists, feminist, human right defender, women land right defender
Judith Atukunda
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LANDnet Uganda
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Surveyor
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Land Governance
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Eline Castelijns
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University of Vienna
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PhD Candidate Anthropology
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Land grabbing, large scale land acquisitions, Zambia, Southern Africa, landscape and place theories, political ecology
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PhD candidate Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, doing research on the complex relationships surrounding land and land grabbing in Zambia
Johan Meijer
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PBL
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Charl-Thom Bayer
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Land Portal Foundation
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Estrella Del Valle Calzada
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UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA
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Caitlin Ryan
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University of Groningen
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Dereje Kebede Ketema
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Mekelle University
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PhD Student (Rural Development and Climate change)
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Land governance
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Emilinah Namaganda
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Utrecht University
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Yue Ying
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Faculty ITC, University of Twente
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Bill Kinsey
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African Studies Center, Leiden Univ
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Justine Sylvester
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World Bank
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Customary land rights; women's land rights; responsible agricultural investment; civil society
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Formerly the Land & Livelihoods Advisor at Village Focus International, Laos.
Lubabun Ni'am
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Alliance of Volunteers to Save Nature (Aliansi Relawan untuk Penyelamatan Alam or ARUPA)
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Researcher
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Kazi Zaved Pasha
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Initiative for Right View(IRV)
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Coordinator
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reading
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I am Kazi Zaved Khalid Pasha joy working as coordinator of Initiative for Right View(IRV), I completed Masters of Development Studies(MDS) from Khulna University, Bangladesh.
Azwar Najib Alhafi
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Alliance of Volunteers to Save Nature (Aliansi Relawan untuk Penyelamatan Alam or ARUPA)
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Researcher
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Forestry
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Paul Andoh
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Centre for Land Policy Initiative
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Mireille BIRARO
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Bahir Dar University
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PhD student
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Updating LIS
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Johanna Waldenberger
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Utrecht University
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Marcello De Maria
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University of Reading / Trade Hub
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Laura German
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University of Georgia
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Professor
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Davhana Ravele
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Davhana Traditional Authority
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Davhana Traditional Authority
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Martin Bong
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All Nations Outreach
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CEO
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DIGITILIZATION OF LAND
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Abul Kalam Azad
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ActionAid Bangladesh
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Project Coordinator
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Energy Transition, Environment and Climate, Land Rights, Governance
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Working as a project coordinator of energy transition projects. A person fueled by a passion to make a just and green society towards beautiful and joyful planet earth for all beings.
Marja Spierenburg is Professor in the Anthropology of Sustainable Development and Livelihoods at Leiden University (the Netherlands), and Research Fellow at Stellenbosch University South Africa. Her research focuses on the role of the private sector in nature conservation and land reforms in Southern and East Africa, and the impacts on local communities’ access to land and livelihood strategies. She has also published on the inclusion of local and indigenous knowledge in biodiversity and sustainability assessments. Marja Spierenburg is a member of the Water, Energy and Food Nexus Knowledge Action Network of Future Earth, and a member of UNESCO’s International Advisory Committee for Biosphere Reserves. For more information see: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/marja-spierenburg#tab-1
Chloe Christman Cole
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Oxfam
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Daniela Ochoa Peralta
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Researcher
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Researcher, consultant and advocate for community resilience, sustainable development and participatory governance pathways for climate change mitigation & adaptation. I believe in the power that research and knowledge production have in transforming social challenges,
Mathijs van Leeuwen
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Centre for International Conflict Analysis & Management - Political Science, Radboud University
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Associate Professor
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current research focus: land disputes, post-conflict land reform, local peacebuilding, state formation, and the discourses of intervening organizations on conflict and peace.
Jorge Espinoza
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GIZ
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Advisor Land Governance
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Dimo Todorovski
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Faculty ITC, University Twente
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Master's specialization coordinator - Geo-information management for land administratio
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Sheila Sens
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Neil Sorensen
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Universiteit Utrecht
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Communications Specialist
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Stephane GIL
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GLOBAL LAND ALLIANCE / PRINDEX
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Regional Coordinator for East Asia and Pacvific
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Land Governance, Land Tenure Security
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I am Senior Land Administration Specialist Consultant who has handled multilateral projects in a large number of countries, in all continents, with 26 years’ experience securing and managing the implementation of large-scale programs involving various international donors. I was involved in the management of Land Administration System, Land Tenure and Property Taxation with Property Valuation specialisation. I was Responsible of Land Administration department of engineering company before spending 8 years in Vietnam as Asia director of a public engineering company. I'm currently living in Vientiane (LAO PDR) as GLA/PRINDEX Regional Coordinator for EAP (part-time) and Senior LA Consultant specialist for ADB (part-time)
Angela Harding
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Land Matrix Initiative
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Tikvah Breimer
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StudioBlended
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Jacobo Ramirez
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Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
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Assistant Professor
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Jacobo Ramirez is a consultant and assistant professor in Latin American business development at the Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC) of Copenhagen Business School (CBS) in Denmark, and a member of the Centre for Business and Development Studies (CBDS) at CBS. Ramirez’s main research interest is organizational strategy in fragile states and other complex institutional environments facing security risks, displacement, and social unrest. Ramirez’s current work focuses on how renewable energy investments affect indigenous peoples’ communities and livelihoods. Ramirez is a Mexican-Danish double national, born in Mexico to indigenous Mexican parents from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. He has lived and worked in Copenhagen since 2006.
International land consultant with a solid background in public policy, economics and law. More than 8 years of experience in the realm of land administration (cadastre, property registry), Geospatial Information Technology (GIT) and building permitting aimed to develop sustainable land-use policies, to reduce disaster risks, and to boost economic growth in urban and rural areas.
Audace Kubwimana
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International Land Coalition (ILC)
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Africa Regional Coordinator
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Youth access to land, women land rights, Indigenous peoples, small scale farmers, rights defenders protection,
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Audace Kubwimana
Works at ILC as the Africa Regional Coordinator. Previous experience includes working for 8 years to reduce poverty and hunger in Rwanda, at Welthungerhilfe as the Country Representative and Programmes lead and extensive knowledge managing international development programmes. Kubwimana holds a master’s in development studies and a bachelor’s in agriculture
Pubudini Wickramaratne
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Oxfam International
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Shamsher Ali
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ActionAid
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Bangladesh
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Climate Justice
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Shamsher Ali has been working in development sector and CSO networks for a long period on the issues of human rights, governance for the natural resources, access to land and water resources, ecological justice, policy advocacy, capacity building of the community and strengthening CSO networks.
David Betge
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ZOA Netherlands
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Sector Specialist Land Rights/Peacebuilding
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Land rights and Peacebuilding advisor since 2016, Gender focal point at ZOA HQ, PhD in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin
Therese Prisse
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Ilaria Ida
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Gavin Fielding
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Forest Peoples Programme
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Senait Worku
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Utrecht University
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Wegayehu Fitawek
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University of Pretoria
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PhD Candidates
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Francesca Vanelli
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IHS
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Jephte Muñez
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University of the Philippines
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Senior Lecturer III
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Public Administration, Governance, Land Valuation
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I am a Certified Public Accountant, Real Estate Appraiser and Real Estate Broker in the Philippines. I am into teaching and consultancy work in accounting, finance, taxation, public administration and governance
Janwillem Liebrand
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Utrecht University
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Utrecht University
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Sujita Dhakal
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RECOFTC
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Assistant Program Officer
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Forest and Wildlife Research
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Lynn Thiesmeyer
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Keio University
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James Wangu
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Utrecht University
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PhD Candidate
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Kseniia Goniaeva
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Henk Merkus
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Netherlands Association for Africa Studies
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Lilian Lee
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Monica Lengoiboni
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ITC, University of Twente
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Christopher Tanner
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Mokoro Ltd., Oxford
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Principal Consultant
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Customary and indigenous land rights, gender and devlopment
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Tejendra Pratap Gautam
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Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
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Esther Kisembo
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ActionAid
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Coordinator FGG3 Project
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Women land rignts and large investment land scale
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I'm passionate about land rights especially women land rights and land grabs by large investments
Ezra Litjens
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Universiteit Utrecht
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Coordinator
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Salah Abukashawa
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ISTIDAMA center for Land Governance-Sudan
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Programm manager
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Land policy, Land M&E
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Sudan: Salaheldin Abukashawa (ISTIDAMA Centre for Land and Environmental Governance),
As a land specialist from Sudan, Salaheldin has worked on land governance for the past ten years with several organisations such as UN Habitat, DFID, and LAndPortal . Before he initiated the Centre for Land and Environmental Governance in Sudan (the ISTIDAMA Centre), where he works as a strategist, researcher and lecturer, Salaheldin worked as a manager at the Ministry of Physical Planning. Salaheldin obtained a master’s degree in International Relations, Geoinformation Science and Earth Observations at the University of Twente and a Bachelor’s degree in Surveying Engineering.
Leyla Özay
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Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment
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Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment
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Nuhu Adeiza Ismail
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Wageningen University and Research
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Rosine Tchatchoua Djomo
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African Studies Centre Leiden & Wageningen University
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Land governance, Land Tenure, Power, Inequalities, Conflict affected settings, Agrarian change
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Ian Plekker
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Utrecht University
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Msc International Development Studies
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Marc Wegerif
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Dept. Anthropology and Archaeology
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Lecturer
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Food Systems, Land Rights
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I am a Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Pretoria. My research focusses on agrarian transformation, land rights and food systems. I have over 30 years of development sector work experience from project level to national and international policy and advocacy. My Doctorate was obtained with the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University.
Nxumalo Buhlebenkosi
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International Land Coalition
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International Land Coalition
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Buhlebenkosi, better known as Buhle, is a Knowledge Management Consultant at ILC. She is currently working on ILC's Database of Good Practices and is responsible for writing toolkits and other ILC knowledge products.
mart stoffels test
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Networktables
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CSM Intern
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Maria Carmen Fernandez
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Romy Santpoort
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Universiteit Utrecht
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LANDac
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Paul Hebinck
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Wageningen University/Rhodes University
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Wageningen University
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Raquel Ludermir
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Independent Consultant
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Laura Meggiolaro
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Land Portal Foundation
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Team Leader
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I lead an internationally dispersed team of 10+ professionals who maintains the Land Portal, a global leading, free and open data & information platform on land governance, land management, land use. Over the last 12 years I have been responsible for the conceptualization and the overall management, implementation and expansion of the Land Portal contributing to the process that has seen the Land Portal evolving from a project into an independent Dutch non-profit organization: the Land Portal Foundation.
Over the past 16 years I have been working mainly for the land governance sector specialising in information and data management for development with an increasing interest in Open Data, semantic technologies and open standards.
Huiying Ng
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
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Ignacio J. Diaz-Maroto
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University of Santiago de Compostela
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Annelies Zoomers
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Utrecht University
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Utrecht University
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