Land-at-Scale Colombia in LANDac Conference & Summit 2024

We participated in LANDac conference and Summit 2024 focused on Land governance and the politics of fair transitions: Deepening the search for social justice. Through the experiences of practitioners, policymakers, and scholars from a wide variety of fields panel sessions and round tables were held to think about the recognition that ongoing transitions in the name of climate change and clean energy are deeply unfair in multiple ways.

The challenges involved in making these transitions ‘fair’ are enormous and some would say ‘beyond justice’ and can only limit damage. The picture is clear enough: climate policies and so-called green investments place huge burdens on people and spaces in the Global South as well as on areas inhabited by marginalized populations in countries of the Global North.

We hosted an insightful session on the European Union Deforestation Regulation's (EUDR) impact on local communities from the land administration perspective at the IOS Fair Transitions LANDac Conference 2024 in Utrecth. Case studies from our Ivory Coast, Peru, and our LAND-at-scale programme in Colombia were presented, challenges for informal farmers and the cocoa and coffee supply chain were discussed, and data and educational solutions were proposed.

A big thank you to our panel speakers Sander Muilerman-Rodrigo, Ph.D. , Gert van der Bijl , Thomas Vaassen , Tim Jonker and the participants for their valuable insights and contributions to the discussion! Nicolas Porras Arroyo, Mathilde Molendijk