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“This plot is not for sale!”: Land Administration and Land Disputes in Uganda

06 Noviembre 2019

Teddy Kisembo

“This plot is not for sale” are the six words you will find, marked on a lot of properties and plots of land in Uganda. The words are meant to ward off quack land or property brokers and conmen. Most of the cases handled in courts in Uganda, and Kampala in particular, are fraud-related cases (like selling land while the true owners are away using counterfeit titles) and land transaction fraud (when fake land titles are obtained and sadly some officers in the land registry are involved).

Eight land-related topics that need to be prioritized and urgently addressed in India

23 Febrero 2018

thanstad

By Tim Hanstad, Co-Founder & Senior Advisor, Landesa

This is the second blog in a series of two that are based on a keynote address made at the 2018 India Land Development Conference.

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Events

Transforming Earth Observation (EO) Data into Building Infrastructure Data Sets for Disaster Risk Modeling

02 Octubre 2023 - 09 Octubre 2023

NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET) has opened a new open, online, intermediate webinar series: Transforming Earth Observation (EO) Data into Building Infrastructure Data Sets for Disaster Risk Modeling. This three-part training, presented in English and Spanish, is open to the public and will cover the basics of natural hazard risk modeling and exposure development with a focus on fusing data from multiple datasets expressly for the purposes of risk assessment. We will also present examples applying the techniques to applications related to flood risk assessment, climate adaptation, and earthquake modeling.

Copernicus Land User Event 2023- Urban applications

27 Septiembre 2023

Sparks Meeting

Rue Ravenstein 60

1000 Brussels

Belgium

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming second edition of the highly anticipated Copernicus Land User Event! Following the success and positive feedback received from last year's event, we couldn't be more excited to bring together industry leaders, experts, and enthusiasts once again.

Copernicus Land Monitoring Service

World Urban Forum (WUF 2020)

World Urban Forum (WUF 2020)

08 Febrero 2020 - 13 Febrero 2020

Abu Dhabi

United Arab Emirates

The World Urban Forum (WUF) was established in 2001 by the United Nations to address one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies. Convened by UN-Habitat, the Forum is a high level, open and inclusive platform for addressing the challenges of sustainable urbanization.

United Nations Human Settlements Programme

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Library

Urban Land Conflicts and Evictions in Latin America and the Caribbean

Reports & Research

Agosto, 2017

América Latina y el Caribe

The Latin American and Caribbean Urban CSO Cluster, part of the Global Land Tools Network (GTLN), together with Habitat for Humanity’s Solid Ground Campaign and the Land Portal Foundation, launched an online debate on Urban Land Conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean in January 2017. Responding to the common interest to make information easy to access and flow to boost collaboration among stakeholders as a critical basis to improve land governance.

Global Urban Lectures: Geoffrey Payne - Improving urban tenure security and property rights

Training Resources & Tools

Multimedia

Junio, 2017

Global

Geoffrey Payne outlines five fundamental propositions that are key to his understanding of tenure issues and policy options.

These are:

1) That access to affordable land with adequate security of tenure and associated rights is a pre-condition for realising the goal of adequate housing and poverty reduction;

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