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Mondulkiri villagers take land cases to court

20 July 2020

Cambodia

A series of land complaints were filed with the Mondulkiri Provincial Court on Monday by residents of Lames and Pou Lu villages who claim two community leaders stole land to sell.

The four indigenous plaintiffs also filed a complaint against an environment official for not preventing the offences and against a couple – Kek Than and his wife Oeu – for land grabbing offences.

In Rural China, Villagers Say They're Forced From Farm Homes To High-Rises

10 August 2020

China

Main photo: new high-rise apartments are under construction in villages around Heze, in eastern China's Shandong province. Rural residents say these complexes are too expensive, too far away from their fields and ill-suited for farmers (Amy Cheng/NPR)

New database wrangles data on land rights projects around the globe

29 April 2020

Global

The database was created by the Land Portal Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in the Netherlands.
Currently, the database includes hundreds of land tenure projects from the Global Map of Donors and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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Land administration reform: part and parcel of an inclusive, resilient, and sustainable COVID-19 recovery

7 October 2020

Authors:

Mr. Wael Zakout

Global

The impact of COVID-19 has been devastating around the world. In response, countries have put in place emergency measures to help their citizens and private firms weather the pandemic and recovery programs to boost the economy once the lockdown restrictions can ease.

Most developing economies do not have the fiscal space to implement broad recovery programs, as the revenues from key economic sectors have collapsed, expenditures to respond to the pandemic have escalated rapidly, and capital outflows have increased.

Latin America’s Indigenous and Afro-descendant women face a 'triple pandemic'

4 August 2020

Authors:

Omaira Bolanos

Latin America and the Caribbean

Many Latin American countries recognize the property rights of indigenous and Afro-descendant people, but those laws do little to protect women’s access to land

Latin America’s indigenous and Afro-descendant communities are facing not just one pandemic, but three. Women bear the brunt of them all, which threatens communities’ very survival.

Rethinking land for the 21st century

4 June 2020

Authors:

Dr. Nikita Sud

India

Global

The 21st century is seeing the impacts of modernisation of the previous century. The most apparent impact is climate change.
Land is intertwined with the human trajectory and powers of access to land come from social, political or other kinds of dominance, writes Nikita Sud in this commentary.
By recoginising the many lives of land, it allows us to better appreciate, and strengthen, political processes that are less extractive and centralised, and more democratic.

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Webinar: Leveraging Technology to Accelerate Land Administration in Challenging Environments During COVID-19 and Beyond

9 June 2020

Location

Online

XX

Uganda

Zambia

Ghana

India

Global

Organizers:

Cadasta Foundation

Land Portal Foundation

Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources of Zambia

WMC Africa

Meridia

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4th India Land and Development Conference (ILDC 2020)

2 March 2020 to 4 March 2020

Location

India International Center New Delhi

India

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IN

India

The fourth edition of the India Land and Development Conference took place from 2-4 March, 2020, in New Delhi, India, and provided platforms for enriching and interdisciplinary conversations on how Institutions, Innovations and Information matter for influencing and impacting land governance.

Organizers:

NRMC

4th Institution of Surveyors of Kenya (ISK) Regional Conference

13 November 2019 to 14 November 2019

Location

Radisson Blue Nairobi

Kenya

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KE

Kenya

The ISK Regional Conference is an annual event organized by the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya which is the professional body for landed professionals in Kenya.

Organizers:

Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning (Kenya)

Global Land Tool Network

Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development

International Federation of Surveyors (FIG)

United Nations Human Settlements Programme

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Annual Report 2018

Reports & Research

August 2019

Global

We’re pleased to share the Land Portal Foundation's 2018 Annual Report. The report demonstrates how we are working to create a vibrant information ecosystem on land that contributes to better informed decisions and policy making on land throughout the world.

Climate Change, Land and Resource Governance, and Violent Extremism: Spotlight on the African Sahel

Reports & Research

May 2019

Algeria

Sudan

Western Sahara

Eritrea

Ethiopia

South Sudan

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Chad

Burkina Faso

Mali

Mauritania

Niger

Nigeria

Senegal

Tetra Tech’s land tenure and property rights experts examine how weak land and resource governance can fuel drivers of violent extremism. With a focus on the African Sahel, this new issue brief finds this dynamic is especially prevalent when land and resource governance challenges are coupled with environmental disruptions, resource scarcity, or migration.

An Introduction to Prindex

Reports & Research

December 2018

Liberia

Senegal

Honduras

Global

The webinar An introduction to Prindex took place on 28 November, 2018. This webinar presented a basic understanding of how Prindex works. The Prindex team presented results of data collected from 15 countries.

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