The data revolution – characterised by the transition to big data, open data and new digital data infrastructures [1] – is projected to make an astonishing 44 billion terabytes of digital data and information available by the end of 2020 [2]. Despite this plethora of information now available to us, about 1 billion people in 140 countries still feel insecure about their land and property rights [3].
Prindex Researcher Joseph Feyertag argues that corruption holds the key to unlocking tenure insecurity.
Opening up land-related administrative data, combining it with data from other sources and processing and making this data available as easily accessible information for women and men equally could be a means to counteracting land corruption in land management, land administration and land allocation. But does open data and enhanced data transparency indeed help to counteract land corruption?
Los ríos, los lagos, la tierra, son sujetos de derechos y como tal, hay que respetarlos
Un blog de Delfina Mux Caná*
De niña, recuerdo que cuando acompañaba a mi abuela a las montañas, bosques, ríos y valles, antes de entrar a estos lugares, ella pedía permiso y hablaba con los árboles…
The fifth anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement offers a moment to reflect on progress towards global climate goals. When it comes to protecting the world’s forests, which are essential to global and national efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, there has been little – if any – progress.
Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain, and corrupt practices in the context of land administration and land management have come to be known as ‘land corruption.’ Unfortunately, land corruption is all too common, with one in every five people across the globe paying bribes to access land services.
Por Rina Chandran
A desigualdade na distribuição de terras está crescendo em todo o mundo, o que ameaça a subsistência de 2,5 bilhões de pessoas que dependem diretamente da agricultura e agrava as disparidades de gênero e saúde e os impactos da mudança climática, alertaram pesquisadores nesta terça-feira.
The global soybean trade was worth about 9.5 billion of US dollars in 2000. By the end of this year – in 2020 – it is projected to exceed 60 billion[1]. This is just one of the many figures that explains why the last two decades might be remembered as the Great Soybean Expansion, the period when soybean became one of the most traded commodities in the world – but also one of the most controversial.
Leon Verstappen, profesor de derecho privado en la Universidad de Groningen y juez adjunto del Tribunal de Apelaciones de La Haya, ha dejado el cargo de la presidencia de la Junta del Land Portal, cargo que ha ocupado desde la creación de este en 2014. Leon relata su compromiso con el Land Portal desde su inicio como un proyecto de más de una década y su evolución hasta el día de hoy.
