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Opportunity: SOLIndex Consultancy
24 June 2024
The Land Portal Foundation seeks dynamic and highly motivated country consultants to conduct desk-research and assess; or review the state of land data and information in specific countries in Africa and Latin America. The consultant must be fluent in English and at least one or more of the following languages: French, Portuguese, Spanish.
Pathways to Customary Land & Forest Rights in the Mekong
01 July 2024
This webinar will present findings from research conducted by the Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG) Program and its partners on the recognition and formalization of customary tenure rights across the Mekong region. It will highlight key themes from two important regional publications: "The Recognition and Formalization of Customary Tenure in the Forest Landscapes of the Mekong Region: A Polanyian Perspective" and the "State of Land Brief: Recognition of Customary Tenure in Forest Landscapes of the Mekong Region."
Land Portal Foundation
Mekong Region Land Governance
Terminology: Majority World or Global South?
07 May 2024
We appreciated all of the people who took the time to leave comments, write emails, and take the poll. We heard you, and based on what we heard, we won’t be making any wholesale changes right now in how we refer to countries and regions that have historically been left out of economic and industrialized development. We are particularly sensitive to the idea that the term Majority World could, as Rafael wrote, “perpetuate a notion that could undermine the importance of minority groups. It appears to replicate the very idea that the worth or relevance of a group is tied to its size, which is a concept many of us are striving to move away from, especially those of us engaged in addressing the vulnerabilities of minority populations.”
News & Events
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Recent events
Eighth India Land and Development Conference, ILDC 2024
5 November 2024 to 7 November 2024
The Eighth India Land and Development Conference, ILDC 2024 will be organised from 5-7 November 2024 at FLAME University, Pune, India.
New York Climate Week 2024
22 September 2024 to 29 September 2024
Climate Week NYC is the largest annual climate event of its kind, bringing together over 600 events and activities across the City of New York – in person, hybrid and online.
Recent blogs
Webinar Recap : Pathways to Customary Land & Forest Rights in the Mekong
12 July 2024
The webinar “Pathways to Customary Land & Forest Rights in the Mekong” took place on July 2nd, 2024. This was the second webinar in the series ‘State of Land in the Mekong region’ which aims to highlight the evolving environment of land governance in this dynamic region, including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam. The webinar attracted 240 participants and featured experts from the Mekong region. The webinar was organized by the Land Portal Foundation and the Mekong Region Land Governance and drew on findings from research and activities conducted by the Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG) Project and its partners on the recognition and formalization of customary tenure rights across the Mekong region.
Recent News
Opportunity: Data & Technology Assessment & Capacity Building
04 July 2024
We are looking to hire a Senior Technical Advisor for a short-term consultancy to support us in assessing our data approach and technology and to lead a workshop for our board and staff for discussion during the Annual General Meeting of the Land Portal Foundation in October 2024 in Rome.
The Struggles for Land Podcast- Season 1 - Episode 2 - Commons and communities
29 June 2024
The Struggles for Land Podcast gives a voice to those fighting for access to land and defending the commons.
Focusing on one major theme per episode, the podcast interviews and brings together farmers' organizations, social movements, environmental protection and the defense of the commons, as well as researchers and consumer associations. These exchanges between actors from the four corners of the globe enable us to better understand the local and international stakes, the successes and the difficulties of these mobilizations, which all have in common that they are working towards a society based on peasant and feminist agriculture in harmony with ecosystems.
You can listen to all the episodes on this page and on the various platforms:
The Struggles for Land Podcast: Season 1 - Episode 1 - Land grabbing
29 June 2024
The Struggles for Land Podcast gives a voice to those fighting for access to land and defending the commons.
Focusing on one major theme per episode, the podcast interviews and brings together farmers' organizations, social movements, environmental protection and the defense of the commons, as well as researchers and consumer associations. These exchanges between actors from the four corners of the globe enable us to better understand the local and international stakes, the successes and the difficulties of these mobilizations, which all have in common that they are working towards a society based on peasant and feminist agriculture in harmony with ecosystems.
You can listen to all the episodes on this page and on the various platforms:
Opportunity: SOLIndex Consultancy
24 June 2024
The Land Portal Foundation seeks dynamic and highly motivated country consultants to conduct desk-research and assess; or review the state of land data and information in specific countries in Africa and Latin America. The consultant must be fluent in English and at least one or more of the following languages: French, Portuguese, Spanish.