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NEWS: Land Portal celebrates 80 country profiles
13 November 2023
We are celebrating the Land Portal's 80th country profile -- Iraq -- and the 79 that stand behind it. This rich collection represents seven years of work and underpins the Land Portal's commitment to making land information open and accessible. We publish profiles in English, French, Spanish, and…
When the ‘strangers’ came – Chinese rubber giant ‘destroys’ rainforests, indigenous lives in Cameroon
11 July 2023
In southern Cameroon, about 150km from the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, a bitter story from the colonial era is playing out. Rubber companies are once again destroying rainforests and communities.
Projects
Economic Inclusion Programme for Families and Rural Communities in the Territory of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (ACCESOS)
Durationaab: August 2013 - September 2018
Donors: International Fund for Agricultural Development
The programme aims to strengthen the capacities of communal and territorial landholders, among 43,000 households, and autonomous local governments, supporting the community-based implementation of farming systems adapted to the widely varying conditions of high plateaux, inter-Andean valleys and som
Development and conduct of VGGT-based framework for assessing forest tenure
Durationaab: January 2020 - January 2020
Donors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
FAO initiated a VGGT-informed forest tenure assessment in Uganda in August 2015. The framework was developed and tested to evaluate the forest tenure related policies, laws, institutions, and administration in order to identify areas for improvement with respect to the VGGT principles, as well as id
Support in the Administration of state owned agricultural land in Kazakhstan (BMELV/BVVG)
Durationaab: June 2013 - December 2016
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
The project aims at supporting government institutions dealing with land management assignments with a special focus on the management of state owned agricultural land, analysis of the current situation, review of legal framework advisory support in organizing lease valuation of agricultural land,
Advisory services for the development of the legal and institutional framework for the agricultural land market (BMELV/BVVG)
Durationaab: January 2006 - December 2015
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
The project aims at supporting the Ukrainian government in establishing the legal and institutional framework for an open and transparent land market, review of land legislation, management and administration of state-owned (agricultural) land, spatial planning, land use planning, land market monit
Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use
Durationaab: December 2014 - December 2023
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To support public-private partnerships that demonstrate how companies, communities, smallholders and governments can work collaboratively to reduce deforestation and benefit forest dependent communities. Land is one component of this programme.
Development of a legal framework on Biodiversity, Environment and Natural Resources, and on the right to communication and infor
Durationaab: January 2010 - January 2011
Value: $455,000.00
Donors: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
Support the design of legal frameworks in the field of biodiversity, environment, natural resources, and related legislation on the right to information, such as in the drafting process for the Forest Law.
RI launches Tenure Tool – the world’s largest online database on Indigenous and local communities’ forest tenure
19 October 2023
RRI is excited to announce the launch of its new online Tenure Tool. This platform, hosted on RRI’s website, will give rightsholders, researchers, activists, policymakers, and the public free and easy access to qualitative and quantitative data on the forest tenure rights of Indigenous Peoples,…
Indigenous Land Rights and the Biodiversity COP15: Six Months On
25 May 2023
After two weeks of tense talks, the recent UN Biodiversity Conference COP15 ended with a landmark agreement to guide global action on nature through to 2030. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), includes concrete measures to halt and reverse nature loss, including putting 30%…
