Ward Anseeuw

Senior Technical Specialist, International Land Coalition

Dr Ward Anseeuw, a development economist and policy analyst, is a research fellow at the Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD). He is presently seconded to the International Land Coalition as a Senior Technical Specialist responsible for "Knowledge, Learning, Innovation and data". For the last 12 years, he was seconded to the University of Pretoria, as a senior research fellow to the Post-Graduate School of Agriculture and Rural Development and as the co-director of the Center for the Study of Governance Innovations (GovInn) -- which he founded in 2012. His work focuses mainly on issues of agricultural and land policies, agrarian and land reforms, large-scale land acquisitions as well as to participatory approaches of data generation, governance and advocacy regarding land. He has published extensively on these issues in scientific journals and with renowned publishers; including Land, transition and compromise (with Chris Alden, Palgrave, 2009), The struggle over land in Africa -- Conflicts, politics and change (with Chris Alden, HSRC Press, 2010), South Africa 's Agrarian Reform(In French, Editions Universitaires Européennes, 2011), South Africa 's Agrarian Question (HSRC Press, 2016) and Inclusive Businesses in Agriculture (SunMedia Press, 2017).