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New Land and Investments Portfolio Features Tools for Responsible Land Investments

18 March 2020

Africa

Global

The nature and scale of investments in land in developing countries has divided opinion many contexts, especially where local people depend on access to land for agriculture.

Blogs

Governing land for the future: What (r)evolutions do we need?

23 June 2022

Authors:

Mr. Neil Sorensen

Netherlands

Global

The 13th Annual LANDac Annual Conference is taking place in person next week in Utrecht, Netherlands, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began. All the conference sessions will also be accessible online to registered participants. LANDac brings together land governance stakeholders from around the world who might not otherwise meet, including academic researchers, the private, civil society, and policy makers.

The Global Land Rush, Revisited

2 December 2021

Authors:

Mr. Lorenzo Cotula

Global

When the US housing bubble burst in late 2008, it dragged major banks into liquidation and destabilised financial systems worldwide. A long, era-defining recession ensued, ushering bank bailouts, currency crises and austerity measures. Meanwhile, China’s skyrocketing industrial production was shifting global economic power.

Open Data and Corruption in Land Governance

29 January 2021

Authors:

Dr. Marcello De Maria

Global

The data revolution – characterised by the transition to big data, open data and new digital data infrastructures [1] – is projected to make an astonishing 44 billion terabytes of digital data and information available by the end of 2020 [2]. Despite this plethora of information now available to us, about 1 billion people in 140 countries still feel insecure about their land and property rights [3].

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Discussions

Land and Corruption in Africa in 3 Topics

Closed

17 July 2019 to 7 August 2019

Facilitators:

Jean Brice Tetka

Mary Maneno

Michael Okai

Dr. Simon Manda

Mr. Gerald Padde Auku

Partners:

Land Portal Foundation

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Transparency International

African Land Policy Centre

Africa

Kenya

Uganda

Zambia

Ghana

Land corruption in Africa Download the Report of the discussion.

Towards Sustainable Land Governance in Kenya

Closed

22 August 2017 to 29 September 2017

Kenya

Global

Background

From August 22nd to September 15th 2017 the Land Development and Governance Institute (LDGI) and Land Portal Foundation will co- facilitate an online debate that will involve the contribution of major stakeholders focusing on contemporary Kenyan land governance issues.

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Events

International Anti-Corruption Day

9 December 2019

Global

On this International Day, I urge people everywhere to continue to work on innovative solutions to win the battle against corruption and to ensure that precious resources serve the peoples of the world.

UN Secretary-General, António Guterres

Organizers:

United Nations

Webinar: The State of Support for Open Data in Land Governance

6 November 2019

Location

Online

XX

Africa

Global

Organizers:

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Land Portal Foundation

Open Data for Development

Omidyar Network

International Development Research Centre

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Library

Weak Land Governance, Fraud and Corruption: Fertile Ground for Land Grabbing

Reports & Research

December 2021

Brazil

Fraud and corruption are the main enabling mechanisms for land abuses in Brazil, guaranteeing impunity for land grabbers and other public and private agents involved in these schemes.

"When we import goods, we export jobs"

Conference Papers & Reports

September 2017

Africa

Nigeria

This article was submitted for the UN Economic Commission for Africa “2017 Conference on Land Policy in Africa” Nov. 14-17 2017, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The Status of National Legal Frameworks for Valuing Compensation for Expropriated Land

Journal Articles & Books

June 2017

Africa

Latin America and the Caribbean

Asia

Global

The challenges associated with determining fair compensation for expropriated land have been extensively discussed and debated among scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and the public.

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Organizations

Andrew Chilombo

PhD Student, University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences

Economic valuation of ecosystem services for improved land governance and livelihoods: case study in large scale land acquisitions in Zambia

Land Development and Governance Institute (LDGI)

Land Development and Governance Institute

MISSION: To contribute to improved livelihoods through offering a bridge between communities, stakeholders and policy makers in the promotion of equitable access and sustainable management of land and natural resources.

National Land Commission (NLC)

OUR VISION

Excellent administration and management of land for sustainable development

OUR MISSION

To implement an efficient land administration and management system in order to ensure equity in access to land

CORE VALUES

Efficiency

Transparency and Accountability

Nicholas K. Tagliarino (NKT)

The legal data collected for Nicholas Tagliarino's dissertation and posted on Land Book examines whether national expropriation, compensation, and resettlement laws in developing countries are adopting international standards designed to secure tenure rights and ensure responsible land governance. The analysis conducted for this dataset is based on Section 16 of the UN Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure, which establishes standards on expropriation, compensation, and resettlement.

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