11 October 2022
Benin
Argentina
Kazakhstan
Thailand
India
Global
This data story investigates the challenges to align action on land degradation and tenure security based on the screening of available datasets in both domains.
Data Stories
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Stories from the Land Portal
Browse the most recent stories, drafted and published by the team at the Land Portal.
4 October 2022
Sierra Leone
Colombia
Global
This data story scrutinises some of the impacts of the VGGT. It highlights available data on how the VGGTs have been used, how associated project work incorporates the guidelines, and whether implementation has resulted in tangible change in the security of land tenure for communities around the world.
13 May 2022
China
Japan
South-Eastern Asia
Cambodia
Myanmar
Thailand
Vietnam
Europe
United Kingdom
This Land Portal data story looks at the increase of maize production in and around Thailand, and its relation to a poultry value chain as an ingredient in animal feed.
Stories from the Network
Browse the most recent stories, drafted by the partners and colleagues within our network.
12 July 2022
Colombia
12 July 2022
Colombia
9 June 2022
Brazil
9 June 2022
Kenya
Data Story Contest Winners
Our annual Data Stories Contest calls for dynamic land related stories that capture attention and present data in innovative and engaging ways. Browse through the list of recent winners here.
15 October 2020
Mozambique
This is the story of how dozens of communities in Mozambique are mapping and documenting their own land rights. "A New Hope" is the winner of the Land Portal's Second Data Story Contest, and is authored by the team at Terra Firma Mozambique.
30 May 2019
Guatemala
We meet Rosalía in a roadside café in a dusty town in the Quiché department, in Guatemala’s Western Highlands. She lowers her voice whenever people come in – you never know who might be listening. Land is sensitive stuff, especially in Quiché, a region that still bears, perhaps more than any other part of Guatemala, the scars of the civil war (1960-1996) – as we will see. In 2018 alone, 15 defenders of land rights in Guatemala have been killed with total impunity, several of them in Quiché.
30 May 2019
Sierra Leone
This story was submitted as part of the Land Portal Data Stories Contest and was the recipient of the second prize.
28 May 2019
Africa
Mozambique
Zambia
This data story gives an overview of current land grabbing databases, their lack of spatial information and how remote sensing datasets can overcome this lack when being used to detect large scale agricultural production schemes.