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LANDac is a partnership between Dutch organizations active in the field of land governance with the aim to optimize the link between land governance, sustainable development and poverty alleviation by generating, analyzing, synthesizing and disseminating knowledge. Some of its activities include PhD programmes, short-term research in collaboration with Southern partners, an annual Summer School on Land Governance, organization of meetings and lectures and providing a platform for a wider range of stakeholders involved in and interested in land governance in the Netherlands.

The grant is intended to make small scale food producers familiar with the Voluntary Guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests (VGGTs), and build up their capacity to create synergies and develop common strategies with regional human rights organisations and institutions in order to support the implementation of VGGT, but also to monitor the implementation at national level.

The aim of the project is to contribute to the sustainable reduction of rural poverty in the Norte Grande region of Argentina. This goal will be achieved by the beneficiary and sustainable integration of small producers into value chains, through the formation of groups and organisations. 8,000 households will benefit from this five-year project, with the creation of 900 jobs.