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Land decision-making: how to improve land actors' participation in the Arab World?
LANDac International Conference 2022 Session Summary
The presentation was organized in 3 parts: presentation of the land situation, land actors, and land revolution in the Arab Region.
Kisumu County’s Fragile Food Security
Reliance on imports from as far away as Tanzania, Uganda and even China, leaves Kisumu County’s accessibility to food on a fragile footing.
The Human Right to Land: Do we need Human Rights based Land Governance and what could it deliver?
The session co-organised by TMG research and the Danish Institute of Human Rights looked at the interlinkages between responsible land governance and human rights. Participants discussed critical questions such as: can a more explicit embedding of land rights work in Human Rights correct overly simplistic, technical framings? Can it reaffirm the legally binding human rights foundation of voluntary responsible land governance (i.e. the VGGT)?
Creative partnerships for land: Reaching across sectors, constituencies, and geographies to find solutions
This LANDac session drew on the Land Portal Foundation’s experience working at the crossroads of land governance and open data. With the recent launch of the Land Module, a first of its kind global index on land data, it was a good moment to pause, reflect, and take lessons from the work that we have done with the Global Data Barometer, Open Data Charter, and Open Government Partnership have done over the past 2.5 years. One of our core beliefs is that land data that is open and accessible can benefit all stakeholders and make land governance more democratic.
