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

Event

Webinar Series: The Effect of COVID-19 on Indigenous People’s Organizations and Local Communities

2 September 2020 to 17 September 2020

Global

Organizers:

Ford Foundation

Land Portal Foundation

The Tenure Facility

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Organized as in partnership with the Ford Foundation, the Land Portal Foundation and the Tenure Facility and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, this series of three webinars features indigenous and non-indigenous leaders in a virtual roundtable to discuss both the key effects that COVID-19 is generating in their communities as well as possible solutions and the way forward.

Event

COVID-19, Regulatory Rollback and the ‘Green Recovery’: Indigenous Peoples Raise Their Voices

17 September 2020

Global

Organizers:

Ford Foundation

Land Portal Foundation

The Tenure Facility

Thomson Reuters Foundation

As COVID-19 has hobbled governments around the world, environmental protections have diminished or disappeared altogether, leaving the door wide open for abuse, corruption, land grabs. Indigenous peoples and their territories are prime targets to pillage during this vulnerable period.

Event

COVID-19, Biodiversity and Climate Change: Indigenous Peoples Defining the Path Forward

10 September 2020

Global

Organizers:

Ford Foundation

Land Portal Foundation

The Tenure Facility

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Indigenous Peoples and local communities manage more than half of the world´s land. These biodiverse ancestral lands are vital to the people who steward them and the planet we all share. But governments only recognize indigenous and community legal ownership of 10 percent of the world´s lands. Secure tenure is essential for safeguarding the existing forests against external forces. This is specifically true for forests managed by Indigenous Peoples, where much of the world’s carbon is stored.

Event

COVID-19 and Public Health: Indigenous Peoples on the Front Line

2 September 2020

Global

Organizers:

Ford Foundation

Land Portal Foundation

The Tenure Facility

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Wednesday, September 2nd, 9:00 AM-10:30 AM EST (3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CEST)

Three-quarters of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, meaning they can be transmitted from animals to humans, with Ebola, SARS, MERS and now COVID-19 being examples. Scientists are warning that deforestation, industrial agriculture, illegal wildlife trade, climate change and other types of environmental degradation increase the risk of future pandemics.

Event

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

15 July 2020

Global

Organizers:

Land Portal Foundation

Prindex

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.

Event

LANDac Online Encounter 2020: Covid-19 Crisis and Land Governance and Parallel Sessions

1 July 2020

Global

Organizers:

LANDac

Land Portal Foundation

In this webinar, LANDac, the LANDdialogue and the Land Portal Foundation will take stock of the emerging insights on the immediate and mid- to long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on equitable and sustainable land governance.

Debate

Online Discussion: Land Rights Implications of COVID-19

3 June 2020 to 24 June 2020

Closed

Facilitators:

Mr. Alexandre Corriveau-Bourque

Yuliya Panfil

Ms. Karol Boudreaux

Mr. Neil Sorensen

Miss Chantal Wieckardt

Partners:

Landesa - Rural Development Institute

Land Portal Foundation

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

UK Department for International Development

New America

Environmental Peacebuilding

LANDac

Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility

Cadasta Foundation

Global

Event

Migration, Displacement, and De-urbanization in the Context of COVID-19

28 May 2020

Global

Organizers:

New America

Landesa - Rural Development Institute

Land Portal Foundation

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

UK Department for International Development

Environmental Peacebuilding

Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility

LANDac

Event

Eviction response during and after COVID-19

27 May 2020

Global

Organizers:

Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility

Environmental Peacebuilding

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

UK Department for International Development

Landesa - Rural Development Institute

Land Portal Foundation

New America

LANDac

Event

Women’s Housing and Land Rights and Covid-19

26 May 2020

Global

Organizers:

Landesa - Rural Development Institute

Land Portal Foundation

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

UK Department for International Development

New America

LANDac

Environmental Peacebuilding

Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility

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Recent news

Land News: Weeks 33-38 2020 South Africa, Southern Central and Eastern Africa

29 September 2020

Sub-Saharan Africa

A compilation of land related news curated by knowledgebase.land - a website maintained by Phuhlisani NPC, a land sector NPO in South Africa. KB.L seeks to bring to life all aspects of the 'land issue', recognising that land is both a deeply important aspect of our history which simultaneously shapes the contemporary political landscape.

Think tank decries global push to privatize land

27 September 2020

Brazil

Myanmar

Sri Lanka

Ukraine

Papua New Guinea

Global

One of the ugliest features of the modern world is the exploitation of natural resources for private gain irrespective of its consequences for the environment and the larger community, especially the poor majority.

Land to lose: coronavirus compounds debt crisis in Cambodia

21 September 2020

Cambodia

At least 1.76 million jobs in the nation of about 16 million people are at risk due to COVID-19, while the poverty rate could double, to about one-in-four people, the World Bank said in May. Cambodian human rights groups have this year called for a freeze on loan repayments due to the virus and for lenders to return more than one million land titles held as collateral.

Job Opportunity: Land data researcher and advocacy consultant

9 September 2020

Global

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Five Years into the SDGs: Are we on track to deliver the land targets?

Reports & Research

September 2020

Global

This virtual side event was proposed as part of the 2020 SDG High Level Political Forum which was held from 7th to 16th July 2020. It was organised by the SDG Land Momentum Group, an informal group of civil society organizations and multilateral agencies which advocate the implementation of the land targets of the SDGs and support their monitoring.

Women’s Land Rights and COVID-19

Policy Papers & Briefs

August 2020

Global

In the six months since the coronavirus began its global spread, more than 15 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and more than 600,000 have perished, causing governments around the world to institute lockdowns and shut down businesses while entire industries have been devastated.

Displacement, De-urbanization, and COVID-19

Policy Papers & Briefs

August 2020

Global

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Events

CFS High-Level Special Event on Food Security and Nutrition

13 October 2020 to 15 October 2020

Location

Online

Global

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will organize a High-Level Virtual Special Event on Food Security and Nutrition, 13 - 15 October 2020. The session, in lieu of CFS 47 which has been rescheduled to 8 - 12 February 2021 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, will seek to keep food security and nutrition front and centre on the global sustainable development agenda.

Organizers:

FAO, Committee on World Food Security (CFS)

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Recent blogs

Land rights in the time of COVID-19: An avenue for protection and security

30 September 2020

Authors:

Joshua Lichtenstein

Central America

Panama

South America

Nicaragua: Las Regiones Autonomas frente al Covid 19

14 September 2020

Authors:

Dolene Miller

Latin America and the Caribbean

Central America

Nicaragua

Communities, conservation & development in the age of COVID-19: Time for rethinking approaches

11 September 2020

Authors:

Michael Brown

Africa

Latin America and the Caribbean

Asia

Global

The global conservation community now faces the added challenge of Covid-19 on top of a longstanding set of complex conservation, sustainability, and development challenges. In the wake of this pandemic, return to business as usual is not a viable option. The existing systems and structures upon which conservation is based must evolve. Climate change, biodiversity conservation, and poverty elimination efforts have been further complicated by Covid-19, with the brunt of the pandemic borne most acutely by the poorest and most vulnerable.

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