'You Cannot Live Here'
20 April 2022
USAID is supporting the government with a strategy to create municipal land offices that manage local land administration campaigns and deliver land titles to rural Colombians
There are 3, 558 content items of different types and languages related to land administration on the Land Portal.
New Country Portfolio for Nepal
12 April 2022
The Land Portal published a new country portfolio for Nepal as part of our Country Insights initiative. The initiative seeks to expand knowledge about how countries govern their land, the challenges they face, and the innovative solutions they find to manage land tenure issues.
Nepal is a small landlocked country situated between India and China. It comprises three main geographical areas, namely lowland plains bordering India, foothills, and then the high Himalayan mountains bordering China. The total land area is 147,516km2.
New Country Portfolio on Tajikistan
07 April 2022
The Land Portal published a new country portfolio for Tajikistan as part of our Country Insights initiative. The initiative seeks to expand knowledge about how countries govern their land, the challenges they face, and the innovative solutions they find to manage land tenure issues.
New Country Portfolio on Mozambique
04 April 2022
The Land Portal published a new country portfolio for Mozambique as part of our Country Insights initiative. The initiative seeks to expand knowledge about how countries govern their land, the challenges they face and the innovative solutions they find to manage land tenure issues.
Mozambique continues to struggle with the complex legacies of conflict stemming from a bitter anti-colonial war, followed by decades of civil strife and the current armed insurgency in Cabo Delgado.
FAO publishes case study on LandVoc, Land Portal's land thesaurus
27 January 2022
This case study was originally published on the FAO AGROVOC site. Image: FAO/Luis Tato
1. Land Portal Foundation and LandVoc
Beginner's Guide to Open Land-Related Data
14 December 2021
The Land Portal works to embed land governance in open data discussions and vice versa. This primer is extracted from the recently published Open Up Guide for Land Governance.
First, What is Open Data?
An alliance for open and transparent land data systems and inclusive land governance: A global picture and country actions
19 November 2021
The Land Portal, Global Data Barometer, and Open Data Charter are working together at the nexus of open data and land governance. This blog shares how we are bringing our complementary expertise and passions for more open and transparent land data systems.
The problem
The Perceived Conflict Between Open Data and Privacy Concerns in India
17 November 2021
The good governance of land is critical to the pursuit of sustainable development. Given that the land sector is often considered to be susceptible to corruption, open and transparent land data is seen as an opportunity to fight corruption. Following global trends, the land sector is increasingly engaging in efforts to make more land and spatial data open and freely available.
Land Portal featured in the Global Data Barometer blog
05 November 2021
Towards more inclusive land data infrastructures: The work of the Land Portal
The Land Portal Foundation is Global Data Barometer’s (GDB) partner, which provided key input and support to develop the land module. The Land Portal works to develop an open land data ecosystem to improve decision making and policy through making land data and information more accessible and available.
What art, culture and language teaches us about land governance in Africa
26 October 2021
Ahead of the 2021 Conference on Land Policy in Africa (CLPA), taking place 1 - 4 November, the Land Portal spoke with three members of the organizing committee.
Dr. Rexford A. Ahene is a Professor of Economics at Lafayette College and the Chair of this year's Scientific Committee at the CLPA-2021.