2021 was a year of big promises concerning tenure rights. At COP26, an unprecedented 1.7 billion dollar pledge was made in support of ancestral community land rights, aiming to place IPLCs rights central to global policy-making and discourse. The questions remain; when and how funding will reach communities and how it will be used effectively.

In 2022 we remain in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic, increasingly violent weather events connected to the changing climate, and global security tensions due to war and conflict. Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) are among the most vulnerable and are both directly and indirectly hard-hit by these events. 

A part of the Aftershocks: Russia, Ukraine and the New World Order event series

April 21, 2022

9:00am – 10:00am EDT

Mapping Crops and their Biophysical Characteristics with Polarimetric SAR and Optical Remote Sensing

How can civil society actors ensure inclusivity in their land governance work with communities?

This training will focus on using remote sensing and geospatial data within the NASA-supported UN Biodiversity Lab (UNBL) to take action on national conservation and sustainable development priorities.

Piloting the Open Up Guide for Land Governance in Senegal

The stakeholder workshop, which will take place with select stakeholders in Dakar, will introduce the first phase of the "Open Up Guide for Land Governance" project in Senegal; identify networks and stakeholders in the open land data sector; and increase awareness regarding open data in the land sector.

The Global Land Alliance (GLA) and the Land Portal Foundation invite you to join this webinar on 16 March, 2022 to learn about the risks to informal wives during land tenure formalization campaigns. 

Atmospheric CO2 and CH4 Budgets to Support the Global Stocktake

We are pleased to announce the new dates for the Land Conference 2022: The failed Promise of Tenure Security, Customary Rights and Dispossession.  The conference is set to take place from 17-19 August 2022 online and in-person venues. The conference will be a hybrid event and is jointly convened by the Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC) at UCT, the Legal Resources C

CALL FOR PAPERS - CLOSING DATE 1 MAY 2022

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