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NEWS: Land Portal welcomes 2024 World Bank Land Conference materials into the Land Library

04 December 2024

December 3, 2024 — At the Land Portal, we are committed to advancing the accessibility and long-term sustainability of knowledge on land governance. The World Bank Land Conference is one of the premier venues for knowledge exchange on land, and we were thrilled when the organizers requested our support in making the 2024 conference session materials available to the public in our Land Library, which now hosts over 73,000 publications on land governance. 

 

Land rights matter: Impact of the project for Responsible Land Policy (ProPFR) in the Centre region of Cameroon

14 November 2024

Tobias FELDT, Consoler TAPIMENE, Tabea RIEMENSPERGER

The project "Responsible Land Policy" (ProPFR) in Cameroon is being implemented since January 2023 and contributes to strengthening land use rights in the Centre Region of Cameroon (primarily in the municipalities of Nanga-Eboko and Yoko), safeguarding the livelihoods of the rural population and simultaneously promoting the protection and restoration of forest-rich landscapes. This article provides an overview of the progress of the project and its impact.

FAO Launches New Online Course Providing Concise and Engaging Overview of AGORA and Research4Life for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

10 July 2024

AGORA

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a new interactive online course, which provides a concise and engaging overview of one of its highly valuable knowledge-sharing platforms for low- and middle-income countries. The new modern, time-efficient online course provides an overview of the AGORA collection and Research4Life.

New partnerships reinforce a growing movement for women’s land rights

20 March 2024
Stand for Her Land (S4HL), the global campaign building a movement for millions of women to realize the transformative power of gender-equitable rights to land, housing, territory, property, and natural resources, is excited to announce new partnerships with International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP), LandBridge, Land Portal, and UN Women.

Launching the LAND-at-scale project in Iraq

09 October 2023
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the Netherlands embassy in Bagdad (EKN) and the Netherlands Enterprise and Development Agency (RVO) are delighted to announce a LAND-at-scale project in Iraq. Over the coming three years, the project will work to initiate policy dialogue on the land legal framework reform and work to secure tenure rights for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) and returnees in Iraq

Industrie minière : suspension de l’exploitation artisanale des polymétaux sur le territoire national

21 January 2023
Le gouvernement a décidé, lors du conseil des ministres du 19 janvier, de suspendre à l’immédiat l’exploitation artisanale des polymétaux sur l’étendue du territoire national. Cette décision fait suite au désordre qui règne actuellement sur le site de la Société de recherche et d’exploitation minière (Soremi), basée à Mfouati, dans le département de la Bouenza.

New Country Portfolio for Guinea Bissau

23 November 2022
Guinea-Bissau has been described as a country of “precarious complexity”. Home to more than 20 ethnic groupings Guinea-Bissau fought one of the longest wars on the African continent to end centuries of Portuguese control. It finally obtained independence in 1974. Since 1980 the history of Guinea-Bissau has been marked by multiple military coups and extreme fragility. This political instability has driven up poverty and stalled legal reforms to secure land rights. In 2008 the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime declared Guinea-Bissau to be Africa’s first ‘narco state’.  By 2019 Guinea-Bissau was the 12th poorest country in the world. It has also been identified as highly vulnerable to climate change with low lying coastal areas at risk from rising sea levels and flooding. 

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