📢Call for Applications: LDPI small grants

A massive new wave of #landgrabs after the financial, food & energy crises of 2007/8 led to expropriation & displacement. What has happened since?

African postgrad and early-career proposals welcome.
peasantjournal.org/news/land-grab… Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR)

Back to Juba, from Nairobi. Had a nice stay there. 😇

Lost my IPad in late May, and I was lost in Twitter as well. New device for my fingers again.😎

All finished. We graduated the participants of the short course on the Political Economy of Land Governance in Africa, East Africa, Zanzibar, 11-15 Feb 2019 held by PLAAS with Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa #NELGA . Well done, everyone!

The last day for #NELGA Zanzibar is today, closing up with amazing presentations by the participants. The participants exhibit new talent and knowledge to pursue new path in approaching land reforms that protect communal ownership.😍

International Financial Institutions are turning land into financial assets and traded in international financial markets. Pension Funds are being used to purchase land. African land is the largest target. #NELGA

#NELGA short course day 3 kicks off with a lecture by Prof Moenieba Isaacs of PLAAS about natural resource management and the rights of coastal communities to the sea

Dont use SDGs to combine investments with sustainable developments says Prof. Moenieba of PLAAS #NELGA

Only 10% of rural land in the Sub-Saharan Africa is Registered. #NELGA

🔗Anatomy of 'Clan' rulership in Georgian Judiciary
See more: bit.ly/2TLNNzA
#MakeCourtsTrustworthy

Through Prof.Ruth Hall is Prof. Issa Shivji, both, academics of high caliber on land governance in Africa, fostering new generation of land professionals in Africa. #NELGA

Historically, capitalism evolved in different phases:
1.the slave trade (primitive accumulation of human beings themselves)
2. colonialism (primitive accumulation of land and natural resources)
3. migrant labour to go to work on plantations and mines.
Issa Shivji #NELGA

Debate underway at #NELGA short course on whether customary land should be privately titled - and alternative ways of securing tenure. Issa Shivji says avoid titling customary land; the evidence is against it. Build local democratic institutions instead.

Currently learning land reform laws and policies in the Western African nations. #SouthSudan , a new country struggling with policies and strategies for nation building, can hugely benefit from the West African trends. #NELGA #eyeradio #radiotamazuj