Themes for :
| 1st North-East Land Conference ( NELandCon 2020 ) |
| Venue: MLCU, Shillong, Meghalaya. |
| Dates: January 30-31, 2020 |
Theme 1: Land Tenure
- Community land governance and Customary Tenure: Documentations, Enquiries and Change dynamics
- Land tenure and Land Use (Forest, Jhum, Settled agriculture, Orchards, wetlands etc.): Implications for livelihoods, adaptation and sustainability
- Land Tenure and Development: Credit, housing, Entitlements and land-market
- Innovations (technical and/or Institutional), towards land tenure security
- Land Tenure in NE and implications vis-à-vis SDG, VGGT and other global framework. privacy, Ethics
Theme 2: Gender, Identity and Land
- Gender Implications on Land based livelihoods
- Women land rights: past provisions, present issues and future perspectives
- Land as Cultural Cradle and Indigenous Identity
- Land transformation and Feminisation of Vulnerabilities.
Theme 3: Governance, Conflicts and Information on Land
- Issues and engagements in land governed by States
- Land and Investments : Commercialisation, Conflicts and Cooperation
- Land information and data : Open data, Privacy and Ethics
Theme 4: Livelihoods, Land, Development Induced Land Acquisition and Laws
- Tabooed Livelihoods and their implications on land, laws and locals
- Intergenerational local livelihoods
- Land as a binder of family
- Land acquisition and impacts on locals
OBJECTIVES
CALL FOR PAPERS / PITCH / PHOTOS
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
- To present collectively a status of land tenure narratives, trends, issues in NE India.
- To attempt an update of engagements working on land ten-ure and development interface in NE India.
- To trigger an inter-sectoralinformation platform for con-necting researchers, practitioners and other land-actors pro-mote conversation, connection and collaborations around land and development action, research and advocacy
- To contribute towards connecting land-communities across sectors, with global actors around common interest, narratives while triggering and amplifying innovative and interdiscipli-nary partnerships around contemporary and emerging land tenure issues in NE India
The presenters/contributors will be given a separate platform to present their papers according to the sub-themes.
The papers should not exceed 6000 words and the abstract (500-600 words) should reach the organizers on or before the deadline. The final paper should be in Times New Roman with font size 12 with 1.5 spacing on A4 sheets in MS WORD format, with references in APA style.
Posters can be both digital and handmade based on the rele-vant sub-themes. Idea pitches or abstracts for audio-visual documentations also should be submitted online beforehand.
- Dr. Vincent Darlong, Vice Chancellor-(MLCU), Convener
- Mr. Mihin Dollo, Director (Natural Resources), North Eastern Region Community Resource Management Project (NERCORMP)
- Mr. Pranab Ranjan Choudhury, Vice President, NRMC-Center for Land Governance
- Dr. Fabian Lyngdoh, HOD Culture Studies, Secretary
- Dr. Mariborn Viray, Acting Dean Research
- Ms. Joy Grace, State Director NEN-Meghalaya
- Mr. Dimgong Rongmei,Secretary RNBA-Manipur
- Mr. Evan Donkupar Diengdoh, Faculty, Department of Environment and Traditional Eco-Systems
- Ms. Adelene Shylla Faculty, Department of Economics, Commerce and Management
- Dr. Samhita Barooah, Faculty Department of Social Work