News on Land

ALGER - Plus de 1,2 million d'hectares de terres relevant du domaine privé de l'Etat à mettre en valeur dans le cadre de la concession ont été recensés, a annoncé le Directeur général de l'Office national des terres agricoles (ONTA), Mohamed Ameziane Lanasri.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a new interactive online course, which provides a concise and engaging overview of one of its highly valuable knowledge-sharing platforms for low- and middle-income countries. The new modern, time-efficient online course provides an overview of the AGORA collection and Research4Life.

ALGER - Un accord-cadre a été signé, samedi à Alger, entre le ministère de l'Agriculture et du Développement rural et la société italienne Bonifiche Ferraresi (BF) pour la réalisation d'un projet intégré de production de céréales, de légumineuses et de pâtes alimentaires dans la wilaya de Timimoun.

We are looking to hire a Senior Technical Advisor for a short-term consultancy to support us in assessing our data approach and technology and to lead a workshop for our board and staff for discussion during the Annual General Meeting of the Land Portal Foundation in October 2024 in Rome.

The Struggles for Land Podcast gives a voice to those fighting for access to land and defending the commons. Focusing on one major theme per episode, the podcast interviews and brings together farmers' organizations, social movements, environmental protection and the defense of the commons, as well as researchers and consumer associations. These exchanges between actors from the four corners of the globe enable us to better understand the local and international stakes, the successes and the difficulties of these mobilizations, which all have in common that they are working towards a society based on peasant and feminist agriculture in harmony with ecosystems. You can listen to all the episodes on this page and on the various platforms:

The Struggles for Land Podcast gives a voice to those fighting for access to land and defending the commons. Focusing on one major theme per episode, the podcast interviews and brings together farmers' organizations, social movements, environmental protection and the defense of the commons, as well as researchers and consumer associations. These exchanges between actors from the four corners of the globe enable us to better understand the local and international stakes, the successes and the difficulties of these mobilizations, which all have in common that they are working towards a society based on peasant and feminist agriculture in harmony with ecosystems. You can listen to all the episodes on this page and on the various platforms:

The Land Portal Foundation seeks dynamic and highly motivated country consultants to conduct desk-research and assess; or review the state of land data and information in specific countries in Africa and Latin America. The consultant must be fluent in English and at least one or more of the following languages: French, Portuguese, Spanish. 

Global Land Alliance is contracting a part-time communications specialist to implement the communications strategy for its Prindex initiative. The main role of the communications specialist is to communicate and engage core audiences around Prindex's findings on citizens’ perceptions of tenure security in 100+ countries. 

Interview with a same-sex couple who requested a joint title to formalize their property in Colombia.

This year, the Land Portal marks 15 years in action. We began as a simple, yet ambitious, website in 2009 by aggregating fragmented land data for people searching for free, reliable information to support land rights protection for vulnerable people. 

On the opening day of the World Bank’s 2024 Land Conference, organizations of small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, workers, grassroots communities, and civil society denounce the World Bank as a major actor of land grabbing and ecosystem destruction. They call for effective measures to realize the right to land and territories, including agrarian reform.