We are currently recruiting a six-member Advisory Board to guide LTC program development.
The Land Tenure Center (LTC) works to improve environmental sustainability in developing countries, where extraordinary biological and cultural diversity often coincides with acute poverty. Environmental sustainability is vital for the poor, who depend heavily on natural resources and ecosystem services and are likely to suffer disproportionately from disease and hardship when the environment is degraded. Linking poverty alleviation to environmental conservation is complex and requires good governance and sound institutions. For this reason, LTC stresses local collaboration and a multi-disciplinary approach to research and training.
Established in 1962 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, LTC has evolved into the leading university-based institution on land policy in the world. The Center works in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and North America on issues of land tenure and land use, agrarian reform, land markets, legislative drafting, land registration and titling, institutional dimensions of rural development, and environmental/natural resource management. The Center's mission of outreach is furthered by its globally-recognized Land Tenure Collection housed in the University library system, and its Publication Series, which strengthens the link between research findings and policy formulation through technical papers, briefs, and other documents.
LTC emphasizes the needs of the country where work is undertaken, an interdisciplinary approach, and the importance of working with host-country institutions and individuals in policy analysis, research, training, and implementation. LTC considers it of highest priority, even on short-term work, to form collaborative ties with host national institutions, to conduct interim studies when advisable to meet the policy needs of host-country institutions, and to engage students and faculty in field research.