Dear Friends and Colleagues:
As we approach the end of another remarkable year, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for the collective effort that fuels the Land Portal. Your engagement, insights, and contributions make the Land Portal a trusted source of land information, and your feedback inspires us to improve as a convening space and platform for the global land community. Thank you to our funders, who believe in our role as a public good; our board, program advisory committee, and technical advisory group for their steady guidance; and our team members, for embracing new ideas with agility and enthusiasm.
In 2024, we celebrated our 15th anniversary, and we hope to be together for another 15 years. From all of us at the Land Portal, we wish you and your loved ones a restful and happy holiday season. We look forward to connecting with you in 2025.
Laura Meggiolaro
Managing Director
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In MARCH we started reflecting on 15 years of the Land Portal, producing a video and gathering many heartfelt messages and recollections from our supporters.
In APRIL we shared a What to Read digest on rural youth’s access to land.
In MAY we spoke in three panels at the World Bank Land Conference on the theme of securing land tenure for climate action.
In JUNE we welcomed nearly 4,000 publications from the agricultural research consortium CGIAR to our Land Library, which now has over 73,000 resources.
In JULY In JULY we published a new country portfolio for Morocco and Lao PDR.
In AUGUST we reported a data story on the challenges of securing land rights in post-conflict Burundi.
In SEPTEMBER we co-hosted the first hybrid Land Dialogue at New York Climate Week and shared a case study on this long-running webinar series.
In OCTOBER we invested in a full-day Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training for our team and board.
In NOVEMBER we spotlighted Open Data Champions from Uganda, Namibia, Senegal, and Liberia who are dedicated to advancing data transparency and access.
In DECEMBER we spoke in a panel at the 16th UN land desertification talks in Riyadh and launched the SOLIndex data dashboard, the latest evolution in the Land Portal’s mission to make land data open and accessible for everyone.
Coming in 2025
We are excited to share more with you in the coming year. Stay tuned for: More youth engagement; dynamic debates leading up to the 30th UN climate talks in Brazil (COP30); and unpacking the answers to, “How can our data add value to your data?” Have ideas? Share them with us.