Rolling back social and environmental safeguards in the name of COVID-19
The webinar Rolling back social and environmental safeguards in the name of COVID-19., organized by Forest Peoples Programme, the Tenure Facility, Middlesex University, the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and the Land Portal, took place on Thursday, February 18, 2021 .
Sharing and Exchange: The Land Information Ecosystem in the Arab region
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This webinar was organized in the frame of the 2nd Arab Land Conference.
The Role of Open Data in the Fight against Land Corruption
Land and property rights in the Middle East and North Africa
Land and property rights are an essential to building just and equitable societies. Yet Prindex data shows that more than 1 in 4 people living in the Middle East and North Africa fear for these rights – a higher proportion than anywhere else in the world.
Side Event of the GLTN's 8th Biennium Partners Meeting: Innovative and effective communications strategies in the time of Covid-19
Covid-19 has no doubt changed the way we interact with one another and the way we are able to effectively communicate in our day to day lives. When it comes to leveraging visibility for land rights globally, and keeping land on the agenda and minds of a variety of stakeholders, Covid-19 has forced us to pivot as well as innovate in our methods of communication. Traditional co
Practices of African Youth access to land for a prosperous agriculture
Date Time: Nov 20, 2020 01:00 PM West Central AfricaDescription:
Webinar on COVID-19 and Tenure Security
9th Capitalization Meeting of the EU Land Governance Programme
3 NOVEMBER 2020, 10.00 – 11.30 CET (9.00 – 10.30 GMT)
How to Report On SDG Land Targets in 2021: Introductory Session for Civil Society Organizations
All the UN member states have committed to achieve the Sustainable Development Targets by 2030. However, there is a clear gap between what is being committed and the delivery of the commitments. For example, in 2020 National Voluntary Reports only seven countries reported on specific land targets. No country reported on the all three key land targets.
How to Report On SDG Land Targets in 2021: Introductory Session for Government Partners
All the UN member states have committed to achieve the Sustainable Development Targets by 2030. However, there is a clear gap between what is being committed and the delivery of the commitments. For example, in 2020 National Voluntary Reports only seven countries reported on specific land targets. No country reported on the all three key land targets.
Informal settlements and access to data in the time of COVID: a case for sharing data for decision making
The spread of COVID-19 in South Africa and other countries in the region has again brought to the fore the fact that very dense, under-serviced, mostly informal, settlements are not healthy places to live. They are also places where the spread of a disease is difficult to prevent or manage.
Building Back Better: Confronting the Impact of COVID-19 on Land Tenure, Food Security and Nutrition
Partners Event on coordinating a Covid-19 response while monitoring the effect on governance of tenure and determining how to build back better
Use of semantics applied to food and agricultural data innovation systems as a key step to achieving the SDGs
FAO produces and synthesizes a wealth of information data across all the sectors to help eradicate poverty, eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable, reduce rural poverty, enable inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems, and increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises. These information and data are in text, statistical, graphic and map formats that are accessible through a wide number of FAO Knowledge Platforms.