South America
Creating a Land Registry in Colombia that works for Everyone
7 September 2021
USAID and Colombia’s Superintendence of Notary and Registry (SNR) continue recovering important land records by digitizing files and building the entity’s capacity to serve a healthy land market. In 2016, when USAID tried to support the Colombian government with the digitization of rural land and…
More than 100.000 households with secured land rights!
30 June 2021
In May 2021, the numbers of households whose land rights have been secured with the support by the Global Programme Responsible Land Policy have reached a peak: Thanks to the hard work of our partners and project teams, 110.163 households had their land legally documented by then, corresponding to…
“We can still catch up”: webinar explores biodiversity and climate change in light of COVID-19
14 September 2020
As the world struggles to deal with the shockwaves created by the Coronavirus pandemic, scientists have been drawing direct links between the emergence of new diseases, collapsing biodiversity and the destruction of vital forestlands which for generations have been stewarded by Indigenous Peoples…
Responsible Land-Based Investments: Interview with Amaelle Seigneret
12 May 2021
As part of the launch of the Responsible Land-Based Investment Navigator 2.0, the Land Portal spoke with Amaelle Seigneret, Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development(link is external), to hear what’s new.
