Bridging the Gap on Land Governance and Tenure along the Urban-Rural Continuum

Webinar: Bridging the Gap on Land Governance and Tenure along the Urban-Rural Continuum

26 July 2018

Location

Online
United States
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US
Global
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Urban Tenure
land development (urbanization)
rural development
rural planning
security of tenure (land)
urban areas
urban planning
urban population

Developing countries are facing irreversible urbanization trends with significant impact on the way land is accessed, used and managed.

The increased flow of knowledge, economic activities and information between urban and rural areas has blurred the lines of what is traditionally urban land and what is rural land. Strict land use distinctions and classifications are becoming more and more difficult and irrelevant, and this requires re-thinking and transformation in the way land is regulated, valued, transacted (land markets) and put to fruitful use.

Organizations: 
Global Land Tool Network
Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
Land Portal Foundation

Indigenous Peoples Refuse To Be Left Behind at the High Level Political Forum

17 July 2018
Authors: 
Stacey Zammit
Africa
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
indigenous land rights
indigenous lands
sustainable development
sustainable land management
sustainable land use

This week’s High Level Political Forum, has been an almost dizzying extravaganza, featuring hundreds of side events and welcoming delegates from countries around the world.  Taking place at UN Headquarters in New York City, the Forum’s participants have thus far delved into some of the world’s most complex ecological, economic and social problems. From peace and security, to human rights and development, the High Level Political Forum has been covering it all. 

Request for Proposals (RFP): Integration of Spatial Data on the Land Portal

13 July 2018
Global
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Land Use, Management & Investment
Land, Climate Change & Environment
cadastral administration
cadastral register
cadastres
land administration
land cover mapping
land use mapping
open data
surveyors

The Land Portal is an independent nonprofit foundation based in The Netherlands. The Land Portal pioneered the open data revolution in the land sector and is committed to building an information ecosystem for land governance that ultimately supports better informed decision and policy making at local, national and international levels.

Linking open data for land rights

Countries

South Africa

South Africa - Context and Land Governance

Despite the achievement of Constitutional democracy in 1994, 'the land question' is at the heart of South Africa's struggles to overcome the cumulative legacies of nearly 350 years of white minority rule. The emotive quality of land policies evokes painful legacies fuelled by disappointments with the official land reform programme ushered in by the new Constitution of 1996. There is broad agreement that land reform programmes have not fulfilled their aims to significantly redistribute land and productive agrarian capacity, strengthen land tenure for the majority, and settle the restitution claims of victims of land dispossession.

Learn more about the successes and challenges in South Africa.

Rwanda agriculture land governance
Rwanda

Rwanda - Context and Land Governance

Rwanda is a small country and landlocked. It covers an area of 26,338 km². In Rwanda, land is an important issue due to two different characteristics: first is that Rwanda is one of the most densely populated countries in the world (416 people per km2 – (NISR, 2012). Being an agricultural country, where over 85% of its working class citizens depend on agriculture, adds more pressure on land as the sole economic capital to the rural peasants.

Learn more about successes and challenges and find more detailed land governance data in Rwanda.

Issues

indigenous peoples climate change
Land, Climate Change & Environment

Land, Climate Change & Environment recounted

Climate change can destabilize existing land and resource governance institutions and associated property rights across the spectrum of landscape types. Transformed climatic conditions, manifested in either rapid-onset or slow-onset ways, can change how land and natural resources are accessed and used as geographical shifts in resource productivity, resource scarcity, and therefore land use patterns occur.

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