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Land and Covid-19

As governments press pause on economic activities and people change their work and social behaviors to halt the spread of COVID-19, there are several hidden dimensions that can put pressure on land governance and management and threaten the land rights security of millions worldwide. In this section, we’ve put together the latest news on how COVID-19 affects various dimensions of land rights.  

 

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Land to lose: coronavirus compounds debt crisis in Cambodia

Land to lose: coronavirus compounds debt crisis in Cambodia

21 September 2020
Cambodia
Land & Investments
COVID-19
poverty
land investments
land-based financing
land loans
displacement
dispossession

At least 1.76 million jobs in the nation of about 16 million people are at risk due to COVID-19, while the poverty rate could double, to about one-in-four people, the World Bank said in May. Cambodian human rights groups have this year called for a freeze on loan repayments due to the virus and for lenders to return more than one million land titles held as collateral.

Land, Housing, and COVID-19

Land, Housing, and COVID-19

1 September 2020
Global
Land & Gender
Land Conflicts
Urban Tenure
COVID-19
land administration
sources (land administration)
cadastres
cadastral administration
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
land inheritance rights
land rights
displacement
eviction
migration
land tenure
families
women

In the six months since the coronavirus began its global spread, more than 15 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and more than 600,000 have perished. Governments around the world have instituted lockdowns and shut down businesses.

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Five Years into the SDGs: Are we on track to deliver the land targets?

Five Years into the SDGs: Are we on track to deliver the land targets?

Reports & Research
September 2020
Global
Land & Gender
COVID-19
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
sustainable development
land inheritance rights
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
migration
women
open data

This virtual side event was proposed as part of the 2020 SDG High Level Political Forum which was held from 7th to 16th July 2020. It was organised by the SDG Land Momentum Group, an informal group of civil society organizations and multilateral agencies which advocate the implementation of the land targets of the SDGs and support their monitoring.  

Women’s Land Rights and COVID-19

Policy Papers & Briefs
August 2020
Global
Land & Gender
COVID-19
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
agriculture
patrilineal lineage
land rights
migration
housing rights
families
households
women

In the six months since the coronavirus began its global spread, more than 15 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and more than 600,000 have perished, causing governments around the world to institute lockdowns and shut down businesses while entire industries have been devastated.

Displacement, De-urbanization, and COVID-19

Displacement, De-urbanization, and COVID-19

Policy Papers & Briefs
August 2020
Global
Land Conflicts
COVID-19
rural development
rural planning
urbanization
rural areas
conflicts
land investments
displacement
dispossession
migration
rural population

In the six months since the coronavirus began its global spread, more than 15 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and more than 600,000 have perished, causing governments around the world to institute lockdowns and shut down businesses while entire industries have been devastated.

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Events

CFS High-Level Special Event on Food Security and Nutrition

13 October 2020 to 15 October 2020

Location

Online
XX
Global
Land & Food Security
COVID-19
land governance
sustainable development
food security
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
responsible investment
land tenure
property rights

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will organize a High-Level Virtual Special Event on Food Security and Nutrition, 13 - 15 October 2020. The session, in lieu of CFS 47 which has been rescheduled to 8 - 12 February 2021 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, will seek to keep food security and nutrition front and centre on the global sustainable development agenda.

Organizers: 
FAO, Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
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Carla León Celaya

Nicaragua: Las Regiones Autonomas frente al Covid 19

14 September 2020
Authors: 
Dolene Miller
Latin America and the Caribbean
Central America
Nicaragua
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
COVID-19
poverty
environment
climate change
forestry
deforestation
communal territory
natural resources
natural resources management
land rights
indigenous land rights
land rights activists
local communities
women

Communities, conservation & development in the age of COVID-19: Time for rethinking approaches

11 September 2020
Authors: 
Michael Brown
Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean
Asia
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
COVID-19
sustainable development
forestry
forest conservation
indigenous lands
pastoral lands
land conservation
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
common rights
community land rights
indigenous land rights
pastoral land rights
local communities
pastoralists

The global conservation community now faces the added challenge of Covid-19 on top of a longstanding set of complex conservation, sustainability, and development challenges. In the wake of this pandemic, return to business as usual is not a viable option. The existing systems and structures upon which conservation is based must evolve. Climate change, biodiversity conservation, and poverty elimination efforts have been further complicated by Covid-19, with the brunt of the pandemic borne most acutely by the poorest and most vulnerable.

How Covid-19 is bringing Mongolia’s herding families back together

1 September 2020
Authors: 
Ms. B. Munkhtuvshin
Mongolia
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
COVID-19
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
sustainable development
pastoral lands
rangelands
land rights
pastoral land rights
pastoralists
youth

In central Mongolia, the summer is warm and soft rain falls on the steppes. For herders like Baasandorj, it is a busy time of year, filled with combing sheep’s wool, milking cows and making dairy products for the winter. 

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