Colombia
Inequities in land tenure have existed throughout the history of Colombia. This is primarily due to competing interests between small landholdings (minifundios) and large estates (latifundios); between peasants and landowners.
Socio-economic indicators
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Total population
49,648,685
Urban population
80.8 %
Land-related indicators
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Agricultural land
40.3 %
Perceived tenure security
64.8 %
Women owning land
2.5 %
Area in deals
617,830 ha
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Land Governance and land administration: what is needed to scale up the existing solutions
1 July 2022
The session had as its main aim to try to understand what is needed to scale up the existing solutions on improving Land Governance and/or land administration. Has been seen that the use of Fit for Purpose in several countries at the pilot level has good results. The presentation of cases was a…
Young environmentalists ‘plant the future’ in Colombia’s Amazon
24 January 2022
Felipe “Pipe” Henao is a young environmentalist from the small town of Calamar in southeastern Colombia. At the meeting point of the Amazon and Orinoco basins, it’s an area of abundant biodiversity and an important biological corridor to the Andes mountains. The forest region was once only occupied…
Connecting the Dots: UNDP projects connect land, energy and agriculture to protect the environment and build climate resilient livelihoods.
22 November 2021
True resilience relies on connecting the dots. Connecting the dots between nature, climate and energy. Connecting the dots between land-use, energy and agriculture, between livelihoods, natural resources, economic growth, social development and conservation, between people and the impacts climate…
Colombia
projects
LAND-at-scale Knowledge Management for Equitable and Sustainable Land Governance: Supporting the LAND-at-scale Knowledge Management Strategy (ILC contribution)
Value: €280,000.00
Donors: Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency
Supporting Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests
Value: $15,281,096.00
Donors: Government of Belgium
Land for Prosperity Activity in Colombia
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
<p>The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its Land for Prosperity Activity, supports the Government of Colombia (GOC) in improving the conditions of rural households to achieve licit economic development through land tenure strengthening</p>
Support for "Victims and Land Restitution" Act of June 2011
Value: $262,000.00
Donors: Agence Française de Développement
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Workshop Recap: Using Data to Tell Compelling Stories About Land
20 July 2022
The Land Portal has been using data stories since 2019 as a way to demonstrate how combining data with engaging, memorable and persuasive narratives can empower communities to tell their stories to the world. In the workshop, “Using Data to Tell Compelling Stories About Land,” we featured winners…
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Webinar on COVID-19 and Tenure Security
9th Capitalization Meeting of the EU Land Governance Programme 3 NOVEMBER 2020, 10.00 – 11.30 CET (9.00 – 10.30 GMT) Project implementation in all countries and at the transversal level have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Anecdotal evidence from many countries suggest that the pandemic…
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