Partners Event on coordinating a Covid-19 response while monitoring the effect on governance of tenure and determining how to build back better

The spread of COVID-19 in South Africa and other countries in the region has again brought to the fore the fact that very dense, under-serviced, mostly informal, settlements are not healthy places to live. They are also places where the spread of a disease is difficult to prevent or manage. 

The State of Land Information in South Africa

Challenges finding information in food and agriculture on the Web: what can we do better?

Wednesday, 23 September
(2020-09-23)
15:00 - 16:30 UTC

Panelists will be from FAO, CGIAR, Land Portal Foundation, USDA and Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences.

The first casualty of any crisis – from Covid-19 to Climate change – are the poor and marginalized. Beyond first response, we need to radically reimagine our cities, reshape our communities for resilience and ready our at-risk populations for the future.

The Land Portal Foundation and the NRMC Center for Land Governance partnered with key organizations to hold a series of three webinars leading up to the third annual India Land and Development Conference (ILDC), which took place from 12-14 March, 2019.

Background

There are many sources of information about land, but their visibility, accessibility, consistency and completeness vary enormously.

Join Marcello Demaria, Land Portal's Researcher and Data Analyst with the Land Portal Foundation for an exciting webinar that will teach you how to explore and use the Land Portal Land Book and the dynamic country portfolios based on Linked Open Data.