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New Publication: State of Land Information in Malawi

20 March 2023
Malawi
land administration
land governance
land use
land valuation
land tenure
open data

Land Portal Publishes New State of Land Information Report for Malawi

During the colonial era, data and information was largely treated as confidential in Malawi. According to Mambulasa (2016), many statutes in Malawi dating back to colonial times promote government secrecy and the withholding of public information. This has resulted in lingering land administration and management challenges. Land-related problems have been a constant feature of Malawian society, including the pre-colonial, colonial and post independence period starting in 1964.

Woman in the fields in Sierra Leone, 2012

Data Story: What makes and breaks achieving women's tenure security

8 March 2023
Authors: 
Dr. Anne Hennings
Western Africa
Sierra Leone
Global
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land access
tenure insecurity
perception of tenure security
women

Celebrating Women's International Day, we take a tour to Sierra Leone and put our lens on specific factors that affect women's perception of being insecured in their lands. This data story is based on fresh data from partner organisations Green Scenery, Resource Equity and the University of Groningen.

Webinar Recap: Inclusive finance for land governance: A conversation with donors

5 March 2023
Global
land administration
land governance
land-based financing
open data

The Land Portal and Both Ends capped the popular Whose Land? webinar series with a final webinar on inclusive financing that drew over 300 participants on 2 March 2023. "Inclusive finance for land governance: A conversation with donors” featured donors from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, Both ENDS, Global Fund for Community Foundations, and Tenure Facility, as well as a diversity, equity, and inclusion expert. 

Webinar Recap: Uncovering Land Data Opportunities in Senegal

2 February 2023
Authors: 
Lilian Lee
Africa
Senegal
Global
land administration
spatial source
land governance
land-use planning
open data

Along with GIZ and the National Agency for Spatial Planning, known as ANAT, in Senegal, we co-hosted a webinar, “Uncovering Land Data Opportunities in Senegal,” on 31 January 2023. The panel brought together open data and land governance experts to discuss the state of land information in Senegal – focusing on the findings from the SONI Senegal Report – and the way forward to a more inclusive, open and transparent land data ecosystem in Senegal. 

Sudan-woman walks in a field

New Country Portfolio for Sudan - Arabic

23 November 2022
Sudan
Land in post-conflict settings
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land administration
land governance
post-conflict settings
land policies

The Sudan country profile is now also available in Arabic.

Flat land near Tso Kyogar, Ladakh, India, photo by sandeepachetan.com travel photography, Creative Commons license - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

New Country Portfolio for India

23 November 2022
India
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land administration
land governance
land law
land policies
land stakeholders

A new country portfolio unpacks the complexity of governing land in India.

Village scene near Bandanjan. Photo by JBDodane via Flickr (CC-BY-ND 2.0)

New Country Portfolio for Guinea Bissau

23 November 2022
Guinea-Bissau
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land administration
land governance
land law
land policies
community land rights

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. 

Mountains in northern Georgia, photo by RichardMc, public domain

New Country Portfolio for Georgia

23 November 2022
Georgia
Land in post-conflict settings
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
land policies
land investments

The land governance context in Georgia in detail

Data story: data compatibility in linking land degradation and tenure security

Data Compatibility in Linking Land Degradation and Tenure Security

11 October 2022
Authors: 
Daniel Hayward
Benin
Argentina
Kazakhstan
Thailand
India
Global
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
VGGT
desertification
land degradation
deforestation
tenure security
women
open data

This data story investigates the challenges to align action on land degradation and tenure security based on the screening of available datasets in both domains.

Data story about the Voluntary Guidelines (VGGT)

The Voluntary Guidelines: A Data Deficit?

4 October 2022
Authors: 
Daniel Hayward
Sierra Leone
Colombia
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
VGGT
food security
public participation
responsible investment
tenure security

This data story scrutinises some of the impacts of the VGGT. It highlights available data on how the VGGTs have been used, how associated project work incorporates the guidelines, and whether implementation has resulted in tangible change in the security of land tenure for communities around the world. 

Webinar Recap: Pandemic, social unrest and war echoing in the Amazon

29 September 2022
Authors: 
Lilian Lee
Brazil
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Amazonia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
community forestry
indigenous peoples' lands
community land rights
indigenous people's tenure
Indigenous Peoples
local communities

Indigenous and local leaders from Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil discussed how recent global events have put more pressure on natural resources in their territories, affecting their lives and relationship with land.

Showcasing transformative approaches for women’s land rights

Webinar Recap: Showcasing transformative approaches for women’s land rights

22 September 2022
Authors: 
Lilian Lee
Kenya
Philippines
India
Global
Land & Gender
land administration
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
customary law
collective ownership
women
open data

Empowering women to occupy leadership roles and to take an active part in decision making processes in land governance has demonstrated that strides can be made towards gender justice.

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