Sulá Batsú y Land Portal llevaron a cabo, a través de Anacaonas.net y LandPortal.info, el debate en línea Género y Tierra, el cual constituyó un espacio para reflexionar acerca del derecho, la tenencia y el uso de la tierra; profundizando en el análisis crítico sobre si el derecho a la tierra asegura el empoderamiento, y discutiendo acerca del papel de la mujer como protectora de la tierra y apoderada para garantizar su sostenibilidad.

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.

In the Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC), millions of families live under a constant threat of being evicted from the land and homes on which they live. The urbanization process across the region builds on an essentially unequal basis. As cities and urban populations grow, competing interest and demand for land also grows, be it for housing and food production, as well as for a variety for a variety of economic activities that depend on land.