On behalf of the GLP Scientific Steering Committee we are pleased to launch the 2021 Call for Nominations for new SSC members. The GLP is currently seeking to nominate two to three new SSC members, starting December 1, 2021. The continuing success of GLP relies on the input of these people. In seeking nominations, we are looking for scientific excellence and a high level of commitment to actualizing GLP goals and activities.

The GLP added five new Working Groups in 2020, enabling us to connect more effectively on topics of interest to the LSS community. Do you have a topic area or issue you’d like to work on with other GLP members? Applications for new GLP Working Groups are now open! Be sure to check out the "How to apply to become a GLP Working Group" section of our Working Groups page to learn more and to download an application form, and feel free to reach out to the SSC or IPO with any questions. 

11 November 2021
16:00-19:00 CET (UTC+2) / 10:00-13:00 EST (UTC-5) / 12:00-15:00 ART (UTC-3) / 07:00-10:00 PST (UTC-8)

Three of our GLP Working Groups are planning a joint hands-on event to exchange and synthesize insights and observations deriving from the “COVID-19 global shock”. 

The event will be a combination of brief talks and focused discussion. The organizers seek to gather a kaleidoscope of perspectives, insights, and actual experiences in specific land systems. Thus, as part of your active participation in the event, they are asking attendees to contribute a “micro-poster” that answers these two questions:  

• How has the pandemic already affected or is likely to affect the land system you are studying? 
  
• What frameworks, tools, and approaches could you deploy to better detect and evaluate ongoing and future changes that could be attributed to the Pandemic? 

This event is open to all GLP members. The deadline for micro-posters is 20 October!

This event is a collaboration of the GLP Remittance Dynamics and Land Change, Telecoupling Research Towards Sustainable Transformation of Land Systems and Socio-Ecological Land Systems of Latin America Working Groups.

28 October 2021
16:00 CEST (UTC+2)

The GLP Socio-Ecological Land Systems of Latin America Working Group is very excited to announce their next webinar, during which Martha Bonilla (INECOL, Mexico) and colleagues will share with participants about social-ecological networks of Mexico. 

9 November 2021
15:00-18:00 CET (UTC+2)

Human–wildlife interactions (HWIs) have become a frequent phenomenon in peri-urban landscapes (PULs), making them arenas of human-wildlife interactions. There is a need to identify and implement effective governance approaches to avoid conflicts and alleviate the negative impacts of human-wildlife interactions in peri-urban landscapes. The workshop offers a platform for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to exchange and network on human-wildlife interactions in peri-urban landscapes.

This workshop is jointly organised by the GLP’s European Nodal Office and the GLP Integration of Rural and Urban Land Systems Working Group.

Registration is open until 21 October.

28 September 2021
13:00-14:00 CEST (UTC+2)

In this webinar, the Land Matrix Initiative (LMI) will launch its third analytical report, Taking stock of the global land rush: Few development benefits, many human and environmental risks. The webinar will present an opportunity to discuss the findings and policy recommendations emerging from the report with its authors as well as other prominent experts in the field.

More than 10 years after the surge in large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in developing countries following the spike in agricultural commodity prices in the late 2000s, the LMI has taken stock of the “global land rush” and its socio-economic and environmental impacts in its latest analytical report. The findings of the report are sobering, in part alarming, and highlight the urgent need to rethink LSLAs, which have reached a staggering total targeted size of 33 million hectares for agricultural and transnational deals.

Register for free to watch the 100+ engaging sessions of the 2021 Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress.  SRI2021 took place from June 12-15, 2021, online and onsite in Brisbane, Australia.

The Congress was the first in an annual series to unite global sustainability leaders, experts, industry and innovators to inspire action and promote a sustainability transformation. It brought together over 2,000 participants from more than 100 countries and featured 700 speakers.

Also available are sessions of Transformations Conference 2021: Enabling Positive Tipping Points.

Several GLP Members are asking for the community's help in answering their survey related to governance of peri-urban landscapes (PULs). The objective is to investigate what policy instruments are available to address the sustainability challenges of PULs, how they have been implemented, and with what results.

The survey will remain open until 15 October.

The Crop Generator: Implementing crop rotations to effectively advance eco-hydrological modelling(Agricultural Systems)

Integrating inductive and deductive analysis to identify and characterize archetypical social-ecological systems and their changes (Landscape and Urban Planning)

Call for Proposals: European Space Agency – Future Earth joint programme call for proposals 2021: Biodiversity, climate impacts on human health, climate tipping elements. Deadline: 30 September

Call for Proposals: 2021 SNAPP Request for Proposals will open at the beginning of October 2021

Call for Papers: Special Issue "Urbanization Effects on Carbon Pools: Spatial Complexity and Temporal Trajectories" Deadline: 31 March 2022

Webinar: Land Matrix Analytical Report III - Taking Stock of the Global Land Rush, 28 September, online

Empowering wellbeing and health through nature: inspiring good practices and initiatives across Europe, 12 October, online

GLP Social Hour and New Member Welcome, 26 October, online

GLP Webinar: Socio-Ecological Networks of Mexico, 28 October, online

GLP Workshop on Governance of Human-Wildlife-Interactions in Peri-Urban Landscapes, November 9, online

GLP Event: Land Systems and the Pandemic — Learning from Global Shocks, 11 November, online

2nd International Agrobiodiversity Conference, 15-18 November, online