Newsletter

Large scale land acquisitions and local policies - Dissemination of research in local journals. - "Land Matrix LAC" at the 3rd International Meeting on Land, Territories and Food Sovereignty - Platform and database training - Land grabbing course- Annual Steering Committee Meeting. - Virtual forum: What is happening with agro-industry in Colombia? - Articulation in research processes. Land Matrix – LAC and EQUITERRA - Dissemination campaign: "Land grabbing from the inside”

New large-scale land acquisitions deal in Latin America - Foreign Investment in Latin America: The Role of China and the United States - Land Matrix at Local Universities - Advocacy stories - New agreement - Influence of Latin American land observatories on the process of large-scale land acquisitions - Scientific research collaboration with other researchers

Land Matrix at FUNDAPAZ's institutional meeting - Land Matrix Incidence - Water footprint of agricultural activity in Salta - Contributions to the United Nations Sustainable - Development Goals Agenda 2030 - Land Matrix in ASADES XLII - The environmental impacts and mining concessions in Honduras

New phase and strengthening of the network of partners - Land Matrix Research Program - World Environment Day - Pilot study with LANDex in Colombia - Political ecology, land-use planning and large-scale land transactions - Publication of the book "Land rush" with the contribution of the Focal Point

New large scale land acquisitions in Latin America - Land Matrix at the XVII Meeting of Latin American Geographers, Ecuador - Meeting of Rural Women from Ecuador - Provincial meeting of peasants and indigenous organizations of Northern Argentina - Sustainability-Indicators at farm and landscape scale - Land Matrix at local Universities - Virtual water and LSLA - Indigenous communities and LSLA in Northwest of Argentina - Social media

New large scale land acquisitions in Latin America - Contribution to a book about land grabbing - Workshop for the identification of LSLA Forum: Exchange of knowledge on semi-arid regions of Latin America - Meeting of the Steering Committee in Dakar, Senegal - Planning activities for 2019 - Dissemination and social media

New phase and strengthening of the regional partners network - Start-up of the National Land Observatory of Argentina - Strengthening the Focal Point in research issues - Collaboration between the Focal - Point Latin America and the ROSES project of NASA - Workshop about land grabbing in America Latina

News deals in the database during the phase 2017 – 2018 - Large-scale land acquisitions in Central America - Large-scale land acquisitions in the Catatumbo region, Colombia - Analysis of land tenure structure in Mira, Ecuador - A new method to detect largescale land acquisitions at farm level - Dynamics of large-scale land acquisitions in Latin America and the Caribbean

New deals in the database - Forum on access to land and water for rural people - Land Matrix in an international meeting of environmental engineering students - Dissemination of Land Matrix at the University - Presentation of Land Matrix at the ILC regional assembly - Large-scale land acquisitions and water appropriation - Large-scale land acquisitions in the Tibú region, Colombia - Making large-scale land acquisitions visible in Ecuador - Meeting of the Steering Committee in Bern, Switzerland

New deals in the database - Forum of land grabbing and - extractivism in river San Juan, Nicaragua - Training course in the Netherlands - Land Matrix was mentioned in a book - A searching method at farm level - Water footprint and virtual water from livestock exports - Meeting of Latin America Focal Point

New agreement on the Latin America Focal Point - World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty - Network members in Ecuador - Capacity building and research within the network - Links with Land Mark and coordination with ILC -Land Matrix gains ground at a local university - Peasants and indigenous communities, in their land

Meeting of the Steering Commitee - Strengthening of the network of partner institutions - New and updated land deals - Dissemination of the Land Matrix - Mentions to Land Matrix in regional documents - Land Matrix at the university - Research on virtual water - Contribution to the Land Matrix Analytical Report II - Country Profile Argentina - Two paradigmatic land deals