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.

Key Debates

Event

Building Back Better: Confronting the Impact of COVID-19 on Land Tenure, Food Security and Nutrition

13 October 2020

Global

Organizers:

Land Portal Foundation

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Welthungerhilfe

Global Donor Platform for Rural Development

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

International Land Coalition

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Partners Event on coordinating a Covid-19 response while monitoring the effect on governance of tenure and determining how to build back better

Event

Webinar Series: The Effect of COVID-19 on Indigenous People’s Organizations and Local Communities

2 September 2020 to 17 September 2020

Global

Organizers:

Ford Foundation

Land Portal Foundation

The Tenure Facility

Thomson Reuters Foundation

This series of three webinars features indigenous and non-indigenous leaders in a virtual roundtable to discuss both the key effects that COVID-19 is generating in their communities as well as possible solutions and the way forward.

Event

COVID-19, Regulatory Rollback and the ‘Green Recovery’: Indigenous Peoples Raise Their Voices

17 September 2020

Global

Organizers:

Ford Foundation

Land Portal Foundation

The Tenure Facility

Thomson Reuters Foundation

As COVID-19 has hobbled governments around the world, environmental protections have diminished or disappeared altogether, leaving the door wide open for abuse, corruption, land grabs. Indigenous peoples and their territories are prime targets to pillage during this vulnerable period.

Event

COVID-19, Biodiversity and Climate Change: Indigenous Peoples Defining the Path Forward

10 September 2020

Global

Organizers:

Ford Foundation

Land Portal Foundation

The Tenure Facility

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Indigenous Peoples and local communities manage more than half of the world´s land. These biodiverse ancestral lands are vital to the people who steward them and the planet we all share. But governments only recognize indigenous and community legal ownership of 10 percent of the world´s lands. Secure tenure is essential for safeguarding the existing forests against external forces. This is specifically true for forests managed by Indigenous Peoples, where much of the world’s carbon is stored.

Event

COVID-19 and Public Health: Indigenous Peoples on the Front Line

2 September 2020

Global

Organizers:

Ford Foundation

Land Portal Foundation

The Tenure Facility

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Wednesday, September 2nd, 9:00 AM-10:30 AM EST (3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CEST)

Three-quarters of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, meaning they can be transmitted from animals to humans, with Ebola, SARS, MERS and now COVID-19 being examples. Scientists are warning that deforestation, industrial agriculture, illegal wildlife trade, climate change and other types of environmental degradation increase the risk of future pandemics.

Event

Prindex Global Online Launch: Securing Land and Property Rights in a Post-Pandemic World

15 July 2020

Global

Organizers:

Land Portal Foundation

Prindex

Join us for the online launch of Prindex, the world’s first global survey measuring how secure people feel in their land and property rights. Having previously published data and analysis for 33 countries, Prindex is now poised to release its full global dataset of 140 countries.

Event

LANDac Online Encounter 2020: Covid-19 Crisis and Land Governance and Parallel Sessions

1 July 2020

Global

Organizers:

LANDac

Land Portal Foundation

In this webinar, LANDac, the LANDdialogue and the Land Portal Foundation will take stock of the emerging insights on the immediate and mid- to long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on equitable and sustainable land governance.

Debate

Online Discussion: Land Rights Implications of COVID-19

3 June 2020 to 24 June 2020

Closed

Facilitators:

Mr. Alexandre Corriveau-Bourque

Yuliya Panfil

Ms. Karol Boudreaux

Mr. Neil Sorensen

Miss Chantal Wieckardt

Partners:

Landesa - Rural Development Institute

Land Portal Foundation

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

UK Department for International Development

New America

Environmental Peacebuilding

LANDac

Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility

Cadasta Foundation

Global

Event

Migration, Displacement, and De-urbanization in the Context of COVID-19

28 May 2020

Global

Organizers:

New America

Landesa - Rural Development Institute

Land Portal Foundation

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

UK Department for International Development

Environmental Peacebuilding

Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility

LANDac

Join us for the Land Rights and COVID-19 webinar and discussion series, which is presented by Land Portal, Landesa, the Global Protection Cluster HLP AOR and GIZ, with organizing support from Environmental Peacebuilding Association, LANDac, New America and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID).

Event

Eviction response during and after COVID-19

27 May 2020

Global

Organizers:

Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility

Environmental Peacebuilding

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

UK Department for International Development

Landesa - Rural Development Institute

Land Portal Foundation

New America

LANDac

Event

Women’s Housing and Land Rights and Covid-19

26 May 2020

Global

Organizers:

Landesa - Rural Development Institute

Land Portal Foundation

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

UK Department for International Development

New America

LANDac

Environmental Peacebuilding

Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility

Information by issue

The number between the parenthesis indicates the number of resources on the Land Portal that are tagged with 'Covid-19' for each issue.

Forest Landscape Restoration (14)

Forest Tenure (16)

Indigenous & Community Land Rights (90)

Land & Corruption (30)

Land & Food Security (76)

Land & Gender (46)

Land & Investments (30)

Land Conflicts (44)

Land in post-conflict settings (18)

Land, Climate Change & Environment (42)

Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism (2)

Urban Tenure (41)

Information by country

News

Indonesian officials linked to mining and ‘dirty energy’ firms benefiting from deregulation law

26 November 2020

Indonesia

Top Indonesian ministers who pushed for the passage of a deregulation bill that benefits the mining and “dirty energy” industry have links to some of those very companies, a new report shows.
The report by a coalition of NGOs highlights “massive potential for conflicts of interest” in the drafting and passage of the so-called omnibus bill on job creation.

KB.L South and Southern Africa Land News Digest: 19 October - 18 November 2020

21 November 2020

Southern Africa

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People Centered Land Governance: Unlocking Opportunities for Agenda 2063

4 November 2020

Africa

We, the representatives of governments, intergovernmental bodies, think tanks and research bodies, civil society networks, and land experts gathered online for the 2020 Africa Land Forum, organized by the International Land Coalition-Africa (ILC Africa) in collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC) and The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on the theme: Delivering o

Use COVID-19 to build back better, cities told

3 November 2020

Global

The United Nations urged civic leaders to build more liveable urban centres better for public health, society and the environment

More Land & Covid-19 news

Library

Informal settlements and access to data in the time of COVID: a case for sharing data for decision making

Reports & Research

November 2020

Southern Africa

The spread of COVID-19 in South Africa and other countries in the region has again brought to the fore the fact that very dense, under-serviced, mostly informal, settlements are not healthy places to live. They are also places where the spread of a disease is difficult to prevent or manage.

MEMORIA DEL XI FORO DE LA TIERRA ALC 2020

Conference Papers & Reports

November 2020

Latin America and the Caribbean

Esta memoria recoge las ponencias de los especialistas y representantes de organizaciones de la sociedad civil que participaron en el XI Foro de la Tierra ALC denominado “Desigualdad en América Latina y el Caribe: impacto y propuestas para la gobernanza de la tierra” , realizado del martes 13 al viernes 16 de octubre de forma virtual debido a la situación de emergencia sanitaria mundial por la

Community Forest Rights and the Pandemic

Reports & Research

October 2020

India

India is currently among the most affected countries by COVID19, recording over 6 million cases, by September 30 2020. The pandemic and lockdown measures have had a drastic impact on a large population of poor and marginalisedcommunities, causing loss of livelihoods and employment, food insecurity and socio-economic distress.

More Land & Covid-19 library resources

Events

VI Conference and Assembly of the Inter-American Network on Cadastre and Property Registre

1 December 2020 to 4 December 2020

Americas

Perú 2020

Second Arab Land Conference 2021

22 February 2021 to 24 February 2021

Location

Cairo

Egypt

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Algeria

Egypt

Libya

Morocco

Sudan

Jordan

Palestine

Saudi Arabia

Syrian Arab Republic

United Arab Emirates

Yemen

The Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt is pleased to announce the Second Arab Land Conference to be organized under the patronage of the Egyptian Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities.

Organizers:

Global Land Tool Network

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

World Bank Group

Government of Egypt

More Land & Covid-19 related events

Blogs

Land Portal Announces a New Donor and Board Members

1 December 2020

Authors:

Ms. Laura Meggiolaro

Global

Secure Land Rights: A Sustainable Solution At the Intersection of Climate Change and COVID-19

23 September 2020

Authors:

Ms. Rachel McMonagle

Global

COVID-19 and climate change are impacting all of us, but the dual disasters have a disproportionate impact on communities in emerging economies. These impacts are felt most acutely in rural areas, especially among indigenous communities and minority groups, and by women and others who are marginalized within those groups.

Taking stock of women’s land rights in the wake of COVID-19

15 October 2020

Authors:

Ms. Grace Ananda

Africa

Global

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Key Debates

Partners Event on coordinating a Covid-19 response while monitoring the effect on governance of tenure and determining how to build back better

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News

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The United Nations urged civic leaders to build more liveable urban centres better for public health, society and the environment

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Land News and Analysis
Weeks 43 – 46
South Africa
Southern, Central and Eastern Africa

19^th October – 18^th November 2020