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Displaying 4371 - 4380 of 6947University of Toronto Press
University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of medieval, Renaissance, Italian, Iberian, Slavic, and urban studies, as well as studies in book and print culture.
University of Georgia Press
The University of Georgia Press or UGA Press is a scholarly publishing house for the University System of Georgia. It is the oldest and largest publishing house in Georgia and a member of the Association of American University Presses.
Silkworm Books
Silkworm Books was founded in 1987 and published its first book in 1991. It was the vision of Trasvin Jittidecharak, who wanted to establish an international publishing house based in her hometown of Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. Silkworm Books specialized, from the outset, in producing quality English-language books on Southeast Asia and has since developed into an internationally recognized and highly regarded publisher of excellent books in history, political science, anthropology, and many other fields of study, all centered around the culture and society of Southeast Asia.
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) was established in March 1998 under an initiative of the Japanese government and with the support of Kanagawa Prefecture based on the “Charter for the Establishment of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies”. The aim of the Institute is to achieve a new paradigm for civilization and conduct innovative policy development and strategic research for environmental measures, reflecting the results of research into political decisions for realising sustainable development both in the Asia-Pacific region and globally.
Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society
AARES is the pre-eminent society promoting research relevant to Australasia in agricultural, environmental, food, and resource economics and agribusiness (AEFREA).
Springer Nature
Springer Nature is an academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education.
Springer Nature aims to advance discovery by publishing robust and insightful science, supporting the development of new areas of research and making ideas and knowledge accessible around the world.
How to add your project to the Land Portal?
The Land Portal project database aims to support practitioners, researchers, donors and other land stakeholders to easily search for types of projects, to track funding and to use this information to seek out fruitful collaboration. Project details are based on the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Standard to ensure that this information can be shared among other websites. We welcome the submission of all land-related projects.
Steps to submitting a project on the Land Portal
1. Create your user profile
In order to add your project, you will first need to create a user profile on the Land Portal. This will enable you to contribute projects, but also other content types, such as news, blogs, events, library resources and more. You will need to wait for a moderator to approve your account before proceeding. If you already have a Land Portal account, simply login.
2. Add your organization
Your organization may already have a profile on the Land Portal, so before creating an organization, please check our Community page to see if your organization is there. If your organization does not have a profile, you will need to create one. To create your organizational profile, please add all relevant details, including your organization’s name, description, organization type, contact information, metadata (including geographical focus, thematic focus and related terms) and upload your logo.
3. Create your project
To create a project, fill in the sections in as much detail as you can, including title or the project, project description, starting and end date of the project, project financing, web links, contact information and metadata (geographical focus, thematic focus and related terms).
Importantly, please add associated staff, donor organizations, implementing organizations and data providers if relevant. To add a person under staff, simply type the name of the person you want to add and it will appear. Similarly, to add an organization, type the name of the organization and it will appear. If you have not yet added your organization or if other organizations such as donors are not yet on the Land Portal, click on the + symbol to add a new organization.
4. Submit your project
To submit your project, please make sure that you have filled in all mandatory fields and clicked on the button "submit".
What happens to your project after submission?
Once you have submitted your project, the Land Portal Team will review what you have submitted. We may ask you for additional information or explanations. Once the screening process is finalized and your project is ready to be published, the Land Portal team will inform you about its publication and further steps, if necessary.
Newsletters
Stay abreast of the Land Portal's activities, tools and priorities in our biannual newsletters
2021
Land Portal Newsletter: Unlocking Open Data for Land Justice | December 14, 2021 Opening up land data properly is not the end in itself, but we strongly believe that it can help advance land justice. Over the last two years the Land Portal has worked hard to embed land issues within key open data activities. [Web version]
Land Portal Newsletter: Democratizing Data, Amplifying Voices | July 6, 2021 The Land Portal recorded our best performance ever since the beginning of the first harmonized survey in 2018, and all of our impact metrics improved this year. [Web version]
2020
Land Portal Newsletter: Announcing a New Donor & Board Members | December 1, 2020 The COVID-19 crisis has made 2020 the most challenging year in our lifetime. It has demonstrated the need to ensure that sustainable and equitable land governance remains a priority on the international agenda. The pandemic also underscored the importance of digital platforms for both maintaining access to data and information and providing a space people can trust. [Web version | PDF version]
Land Portal Newsletter: Digital Innovation in the Time of COVID-19 | April 9, 2020 Though the Covid-19 outbreak has forced us all to take some time apart, our team has been hard at work of late, continuing to support our users who are turning to the Land Portal to stay connected via online means in what are unprecedented times. [Web version | PDF version]
2019
Land Portal Newsletter: Celebrating 10 Years of the Land Portal | November 18, 2019 We have grown from being ‘simply’ a gateway to better access land data and information that is fragmented across the web, to a trusted knowledge broker that makes a difference by emphasizing data use and impact. [Web version | PDF version]
Land Portal Newsletter: Meeting the Needs of the Land Community | June 14, 2019 70% of survey respondents reported that the Land Portal is useful to their daily work. This is underscored by the fact that the Land Portal continues to be the most visited website in the land sector, with over 30,000 visits per month and a community of 3,000 users. [Web version | PDF version]
2018
Land Portal Newsletter: Staying on the Cutting Edge of Sharing Data and Information on Land | November 9, 2018 We are strong believers that structured systems enable not only increased sharing of information, which is vital, but that this also multiplies the possibilities for exploring data, leading to increased understanding of the underlying factors at play. [Web version | PDF version]
Land Portal Newsletter: Strong and Dedicated Partnerships Throughout the Land Governance Community | May 5, 2018 We are pleased to announce that the Land Portal Foundation has been awarded a grant of £ 1.3 million as part of the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND) programme. [Web version | PDF version]
2017
Land Portal Newsletter: 2017 Year in Review | December 15, 2017 This past September, the Land Portal and the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) launched a platform focused on Land and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). [Web version | PDF version]
Land Portal Newsletter: New Five Year Strategy | March 31, 2017
We will continue to work with cutting-edge linked and open data technologies and providing services and support to the land community that improve data access and build a more inclusive information landscape. [Web version | PDF version]
2016
Land Portal Newsletter: Becoming a Leading Online Resource for Information, Data and Knowledge Exchange | November 23, 2016 We are systematically working towards creating an effective information ecosystem that serves the entire land governance community. [Web version | PDF version]
Land Portal Newsletter: Creating a Linked Open Data Ecosystem on Land | April 8, 2016
We aim to stimulate data collection and use at the country level by building the capacity of our local partners to gather and manage information, while at the same time expanding the range of information available on the Land Portal. [Web version | PDF version]
2015
Land Portal Newsletter: Introducing the Land Portal as an Independent Foundation | December 15, 2015 With a new board and our competent team in place, we are well-situated to deliver on our goal of becoming the leading online destination for information, resources, innovations and networking on land issues. [Web version | PDF version]
Reducing concession size, adjusting business plans and developing more inclusive business models
This paper is one of three thematic case studies resulting from a set of pilot projects undertaken jointly by civil society and private business partners from 2016–2019 in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa. These pilots sought to test how private companies could collaborate with civil society organisations and other stakeholders to implement responsible agribusiness investments that recognise and respect community land rights, and to develop innovative tools and approaches that could be adopted and implemented at greater scale.