The USAID-funded Land for Prosperity Activity  is developing capacity in land administration across all levels of government to strengthen land rights in underfunded municipalities across Colombia.

By Peter Sangeyon, Gender and Land Champion, WOLTS Project Tanzania

From 1995 to 2005 I was the village chairman, and I was a ward councillor for ten years after that. I was very pleased when the community selected me to be a WOLTS gender and land champion.

Estimados amigos/as y colegas:

A medida que nos acercamos al final del año, quiero agradecerles sinceramente su apoyo y confianza en 2023.

Estimados amigos/as y colegas:

A medida que nos acercamos al final del año, quiero agradecerles sinceramente su apoyo y confianza en 2023.

Una selección y revisión de lecturas que arrojan luz sobre el papel que los datos abiertos sobre la tierra pueden desempeñar en el desarrollo equitativo y sostenible, y en la justicia social.

En la jornada inaugural de la #COP28, organizamos un seminario web titulado "Aumentando la Resiliencia Climática mediante una Gobernanza de la Tierra Inclusiva", en el que se profundizó en el papel crucial que desempeña una gobernanza de la tierra inclusiva en el aumento de la resiliencia climática.

Dos años después de que los donantes internacionales prometieran 1.700 millones de dólares a los pueblos indígenas en la COP26, un reconocimiento de su papel crucial en la protección de la biodiversidad y la captura de carbono, se ha avanzado bastante en la preparación de los sistemas necesarios para que se desembolse el dinero.

The second LAND-at-scale (LAS) exchange took place from June 26^th to June 28^th, 2023. Sixty partners came together in Utrecht, the Netherlands to exchange lessons learned and explore common challenges. As of 2023, ten country projects are currently being implemented under the LAS program, namely Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Colombia, Mali, Mozambique, the Palestinian Territories, Somalia, Rwanda and Uganda. All countries were represented and almost all implementing partners were present at the Exchange.

Challenges with regards to scaling is not unique to the land sector. Working in the context of agriculture for development, CGIAR and Wageningen University developed the Scaling Readiness approach.  This approach response to the fact that the pressure to demonstrate fast and visible results and impact at scale, has sometimes resulted in unreasonable and unrealistic expectations, and in fact stimulated simplistic and non-sustainable scaling approaches.

Chad is at the verge of an emerging land tenure crisis. As observed in many countries in Africa, formal and customary tenure systems overlap. Customary tenure systems, that generally prevail in rural areas, differ from region to region, with each its own needs and practices. Land conflicts are abundant, caused by degradation and transformation of land surfaces caused by climate change, as well as land investments by domestic investors with disputed legitimacy.

Burundi has the world’s highest hunger score and around 45 percent of the population is affected by food insecurity. The country copes with increasing scarcity of land as a result of increasing population size, returnees and IDPs and climate change. With the majority of Burundians depending on agriculture for their food and livelihoods, land scarcity makes this reliance on agriculture precarious. This pressure on land causes elevated levels of land disputes with over 55% of all court cases being related to conflicts over land.