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From insights to action: transforming land governance through access to information
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The Land Portal Foundation's 2023 Annual Report presents a comprehensive overview of our efforts and accomplishments in transforming land data governance worldwide.
Our report highlights three fundamental pillars that have guided our work: Inform, Open, and Debate. Through these pillars, we've expanded our global database of land and property rights programs, enhanced land governance data management, supported data literacy and advocacy, and facilitated critical debates on land governance issues.
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De la réflexion à l'action : transformer la gouvernance foncière par l'accès à l'information
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Le rapport annuel 2023 de la Fondation Land Portal (en anglais) présente une vue d'ensemble de nos efforts et réalisations pour transformer la gouvernance des données foncières dans le monde entier.
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Das percepções à ação: transformando a governança fundiária por meio do acesso à informação
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O Relatório Anual de 2023 da Fundação Land Portal apresenta uma visão geral abrangente de nossos esforços e realizações na transformação da governança de dados fundiários em todo o mundo.
Nosso relatório destaca três pilares fundamentais que orientaram nosso trabalho: Informar, Abrir e Debater. Por meio desses pilares, expandimos nosso banco de dados global de programas de direitos à terra e à propriedade, aprimoramos o gerenciamento de dados de governança fundiária, apoiamos a capacitação e a defesa de dados e facilitamos debates críticos sobre questões de governança fundiária.
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Del conocimiento a la acción: transformar la gobernanza de la tierra mediante el acceso a la información
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El Informe Anual 2023 de la Fundación Land Portal -disponible en inglés- presenta una visión global de nuestros esfuerzos y logros en la transformación de la gobernanza de los datos sobre la tierra en todo el mundo.
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Key issue background paper
Struggles to control valuable land, natural and mineral resources are at the heart of many conflicts around the world. Many have their roots in colonial conquest and post-colonial resource grabbing by colluding local and global elites. Land conflicts frequently entail clashes of values and meanings associated with land. Conflict risk is rising with climate change and the race to control critical mineral and water resources. Millions of people face loss of livelihoods and displacement.
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From large land acquisitions that displace communities without due compensation, to the encroachment of mining on indigenous lands, to the brunt of climate change and natural disasters, to everyday land and property deprivation by kin or state, women are typically more harshly impacted by land tenure insecurity due to discriminatory laws and lingering social bias
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Corruption in land governance is commonly defined as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain while carrying out the functions of land administration and land management. When land investors target countries with weak governance, the risk of corruption is high. Likewise, corruption is more likely to occur when local elites are able to manipulate their country’s land governance systems for their own benefit
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Climate change can destabilize existing land and resource governance institutions and associated property rights across the spectrum of landscape types. Transformed climatic conditions, manifested in either rapid-onset or slow-onset ways, can change how land and natural resources are accessed and used as geographical shifts in resource productivity, resource scarcity, and therefore land use patterns occur [1].
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Investing in land, and in activities requiring land, occurs around the world. As a broad category, “land and investments” encompasses a wide range of scenarios: investments may be small or large in terms of the amount of money invested and scale of the land acquired. Investments may be undertaken for activities ranging from agriculture or forestry to infrastructure, extractive projects, renewable energy, or even tourism; and may involve a variety of actors, such as local smallholders, national governments, local investors, or foreign corporations, among others.
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This publication discusses the importance of open data as a tool for inclusive land governance. It introduces and describes open data, land governance functions, and metadata. It provides an in-depth looks at AGROVOC, the controlled vocabulary about agriculture and related sciences coordinated by FAO for more than 40 years, and LandVoc, a sub-vocabulary dedicated to the land sector. Using these two examples, the article explores why structured metadata is integral for open data to support innovation and improvements in land administration.
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