Event
30 June 2021 to 2 July 2021
Global
Organizers:
LANDac
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
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.
Information by country
News
29 August 2021
Lesotho
JOHANNESBURG - Residents of the Waterworks informal settlement near Lenasia were reeling on Sunday following the death of a man in their community, allegedly from hunger.
29 August 2021
Global
JOINT FAO-WFP NEWS RELEASE
2 August 2021
Bhutan
Many look beyond the city for land
30 July 2021
Bangladesh
From targeted attacks to land grabs, the country’s most marginalised people suffer as little help comes from the government.
Library
Events
21 November 2021 to 25 November 2021
Location
Online
India
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IN
India
Theme: Land Security for Peace and Resilience
Organizers:
NRMC
21 March 2022 to 25 March 2022
Location
World Bank
1818 H Street, NW
20433
Washington, DC
, District Of Columbia
United States
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District Of Columbia US
Global
The 21st Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty “Institutions for Equity and Resilience” postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak and will be tentatively scheduled to take place in Washington, D.C. on March 21–25, 2022.
Organizers:
World Bank Group
Blogs
2 July 2021
Global
Land. It is a commodity like no other. We live on it. We grow from it. We drink from it and build our futures upon it. But — increasingly and frighteningly so — we don’t share it equally.
The distribution of land has long defined the gap between rich and poor. Now new data shows clearer than ever how the way in which land is being shared and managed profoundly impacts extreme and rising inequality, and the achievement of women’s and girl’s rights.
6 July 2021
Global
After three days of intense discussion covering the breadth of land governance issues focusing on the theme of Land, Crisis and Resilience, Dr. Joanny Bélair, Postdoctoral researcher from Utrecht University and LANDac, had the unique opportunity to Chair the closing Session of the LANDac Conference 2021. Closing session panelists were Dr.
5 July 2021
Uganda
Central Asia
Kazakhstan
Global
The COVID-19 crisis exacerbated land governance challenges, including addressing failures in land governance systems, a lack of transparency, systemic corruption, and lack of accessibility to data. It undermines development progress on global food security and has driven people into poverty, while governments take license to develop indigenous and community lands and thus fuel the climate crisis.