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Five years into the SDGs: are we on track to deliver the land targets?

16 July 2020

Location

Online
XX
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
COVID-19
VGGT
sustainable development
eviction
tenure insecurity
tenure security
women

Acknowledging the centrality of land issues to end hunger and achieve sustainable development, countries have agreed to meet ambitious land targets by 2030. Five years into the SDGs, persistent land insecurity, land evictions, threats to land rights defenders and other challenges show that the land promises are not being delivered.

Organizers: 
Land Portal Foundation
Landesa - Rural Development Institute
International Land Coalition
PrindexGlobalLaunch

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

15 July 2020

Location

Online
XX
Global
land tenure
tenure insecurity
tenure security
perception of tenure security

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.

Organizers: 
Land Portal Foundation
Prindex

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What Works for Women’s Land and Property Rights?

22 July 2020
Global
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
land rights
women

Global commitments to women’s land rights have never been stronger, yet there are gaps in rigorous evidence on the effectiveness of particular strategies to strengthen women’s land rights in practice. In this webinar we will host a forward looking discussion on gaps and opportunities for research on what works to improve women’s land rights.

Organizers: 
Land Portal Foundation
Resource Equity

Five years into the SDGs: are we on track to deliver the land targets?

16 July 2020

Location

Online
XX
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
COVID-19
VGGT
sustainable development
eviction
tenure insecurity
tenure security
women

Acknowledging the centrality of land issues to end hunger and achieve sustainable development, countries have agreed to meet ambitious land targets by 2030. Five years into the SDGs, persistent land insecurity, land evictions, threats to land rights defenders and other challenges show that the land promises are not being delivered.

Organizers: 
Land Portal Foundation
Landesa - Rural Development Institute
International Land Coalition
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Recent blogs

Building Back Better: Responding to COVID-19 with Land Information Digitization and Sharing

3 July 2020
Authors: 
Ms. Laura Meggiolaro
Global
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
COVID-19
land administration
sources (land administration)
land information systems
cadastral administration
Land Administration Domain Model
land governance
open data

"Information is power but information sharing is even more powerful." With this statement, during his opening of the side event on blockchain at the LANDac encounter 2020, John Dean Markunas, Power of Chain Consultancy (PoC) cited me. I am now citing him back to explain what I meant.

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Recent news

Picture from official sources shows Chinese build up in Panong Tso, one of the areas of contention on the border. Photograph: Official source

'Our pastures have been taken': Indians rue China's Himalayan land grab

3 July 2020
China
India
Land Conflicts
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
conflict of interest
pastoral lands
conflicts
land conflicts
land dispute
pastoral land rights

Namgyal Durbuk knows the steep mountainous terrain of Ladakh like the back of his hand. But in the 45 years he has lived here, along the Indian state’s volatile and poorly defined border with neighbouring China, he has watched Indian land disappear before his eyes.

Research: land use challenges for Indonesia's transition to renewable energy

Research: land use challenges for Indonesia's transition to renewable energy

2 July 2020
Indonesia
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Land, Climate Change & Environment
title deed
land law
statute law
infrastructure
land acquisitions
compulsory acquisitions

(MENAFN - The Conversation) The world's fourth-highest emitter of greenhouse gases , Indonesia, is heavily reliant on coal to generate electricity. Its coal-fired power plants produce a third of the country's emissions.

To minimise its future greenhouse gas emissions, Indonesia is gearing up to develop its vast renewable energy resources - including solar, wind, and geothermal.

Resorts embrace 'Sor Por Kor' rental plan

Resorts embrace 'Sor Por Kor' rental plan

22 June 2020
Thailand
Forest Tenure
Land & Corruption
Land & Investments
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
corruption
forest law
land reform
state forests
forest land
land investments

Resort operators in Wang Nam Khieo district in Nakhon Ratchasima province, a popular holiday spot where several resorts face charges of encroaching upon public forest land, have welcomed Deputy Agricultural Minister Thamanat Prompow's proposal to let them rent Sor Por Kor land plots.

The operators said the policy will create jobs for local people and help the tourism industry.

Green Scenery calls for ban on logging

26 February 2020
Sierra Leone
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land use
mining
local communities
extractive industries

Green Scenery a Civil Society Organisation working on environment issues has issued a press release calling for government to halt all logging and exporting of timber. Green Scenery is anxious to see the Government of Sierra Leone put behind logging and log exporting as a means of revenue generation.

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