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More sustainable cocoa with the Asase project in Ghana

21 January 2021

Ghana

This month, public sector, private sector and civil society organization partners jointly launched the Accessible Soils And Sustainable Environments (ASASE) project in Ghana.

New IFAD fund launched to help prevent rural food crisis in wake of COVID-19

20 April 2020

Global

Rome, 20 April 2020 - With the COVID-19 pandemic and economic slowdown threatening the lives and livelihoods of the world’s most vulnerable people, the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) today committed US$40 million, and launched an urgent appeal for additional funds, to support farmers and rural communities to continue growing and selling food.

Secure Land Rights Critical for Asia’s Rural Communities Threatened by COVID-19

16 April 2020

Asia

Land rights as human rights is facing new challenges in the time of COVID-19 and securing land rights mean resilience for rural communities in Asia in the face of the pandemic.

Blogs

Why food production hinges on women

17 October 2020

Authors:

Rowshan Jahan Moni

Bangladesh

Landless women should be recognized as farmers, and given their due tenurial rights

“Small farmers feed the world” -- does this make any sense to us? If it does, then what is the paradigm shift and what has it done, or is trying to do differently, to uphold and promote this hard truth?

Informality of land and labour poise to expand COVID Toll: Securing Land Tenure, also critical to secure Nutrition

1 July 2020

Authors:

Mr. Pranab Choudhury

Mr. Basanta Kumar Kar

Dr. Arabinda Kumar Padhee

India

Covid-19 pandemic has further worsened India’s hunger and malnutrition woes, more so for the millions of informal workers, now struggling to meet two ends in their rural homes, post the mass migration from their place of works, during lockdowns. Their embedded informality over labour, land, housing tenure, has uprooted and shaken them with loss of income, occupation and habitat, multiplying their already entrenched nutrition vulnerability.

Can India’s Rural Property Card be an opportunity to expedite Post-Covid Rural Revival?

14 May 2020

Authors:

Mr. Pranab Choudhury

Mr. S. Chockalingam

India

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Events

3rd Mekong Regional Land Forum

26 May 2021 to 27 May 2021

Location

Online

Laos

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LA

South-Eastern Asia

Cambodia

Laos

Myanmar

Thailand

Vietnam

Organizers:

Mekong Region Land Governance

Land Portal Foundation

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Land Equity International

Groupe de Recherches et d'Echanges Technologiques

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Don’t forget the smallholder! Finding inclusivity in land investments

25 February 2021

Location

Online

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Asia

This webinar takes place in the frame of the County Insights initiative and marks the launch of Land Portal's new country portfolios for Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The aim is to unpack the topic of Responsible Agricultural Investment through experiences from these countries, while marking out tenure security risks for smallholders and the rural poor. In particular, the discussion will highlight new aims towards equitable and sustainable practices for land user and investor, comparing positive case examples, and challenges to promote inclusive measures.

Organizers:

Land Portal Foundation

Empowering Smallholder Farmer Land Rights - Beyond Covid-19: Global Open Innovation Challenge

21 May 2020

Location

Online

United States

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US

Global

Date: Thursday, May 21, 2020

Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CEST/1.00-2.00 PM EST

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Don’t forget the smallholder! Finding inclusivity in land investments

Reports & Research

April 2021

South-Eastern Asia

Cambodia

Indonesia

Malaysia

Singapore

This is the report of a webinar which took place on 25th February 2021 organized by the Land Portal Foundation.

How Are Smallholder Farmers Involved in Digital Agriculture in Developing Countries: A Case Study from China

Peer-reviewed publication

March 2021

China

Digital transformation in agricultural practices may lead to a "digital divide" between small and large farms, owing to the characteristics and availability of digital technology.

Expanding commodity frontiers and the emergence of customary land markets: A case study of tree-crop farming in Venda, South Africa

Peer-reviewed publication

February 2021

Southern Africa

South Africa

Contemporary discourses on customary land tenure in Africa, and South Africa in particular, have emphasized the socially embedded and flexible nature of customary land rights, recognising these as inherently more ‘pro-poor’ than individual titling.

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Organizations

Center for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (CARRD)

We are a not-for-profit organization supporting agrarian reform beneficiaries and their cooperatives.

We improve the lives of smallholder farming households by promoting access to productive resources and enabling them to make informed decisions about environment-friendly, non-discriminatory and sustainable livelihoods.
We believe in people-centred development and a faith that promotes justice, peace, and integrity to all people.

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Land rights as human rights is facing new challenges in the time of COVID-19 and securing land rights mean resilience for rural communities in Asia in the face of the pandemic.

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We are a not-for-profit organization supporting agrarian reform beneficiaries and their cooperatives.

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