20 April 2023
Sub-Saharan Africa
This What to Read digest examines livestock keeping in pastoral systems and features recent research that reviews the relationship between pastoral livelihoods and global climate change.
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8 March 2023
Western Africa
Sierra Leone
Global
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.
21 February 2023
Tanzania
Zambia
Senegal
Laos
Global
A review of four recent articles about an underexplored issue: the reasons for large-scale land deals to fail and what that means for communities and society
28 February 2023
Global
- The links between the open data and land communities have matured over the last four years alongside a recognition of the centrality of land governance for sustainable development.
- Benchmarking and measuring open land data is a key area of progress since 2018, but more needs to be done to refine the global benchmarks such as the Global Data Barometer.
- Open data initiatives need to carefully consider their social, political, and economic objectives due to the different needs and interests of land data producers and users.
15 February 2023
Global
Interview with Tim Fella, departing chair and member of the Land Portal board of directors
3 February 2023
Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean
Asia
Global
One year ago, thanks to a Solutions Journalism Network LEDE Fellowship and in collaboration with the Land Portal, I started a project to find stories of responses to the damage caused to the land and environment. During this time, I affirmed that communities and people around the world are working to protect and heal the environment, even if those stories hardly make it to the mainstream media.
20 October 2022
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Southern Africa
South Africa
A review of initiatives and reports which examine the impacts of mining in four countries in Southern and Central Africa
13 October 2022
Global
Last week, I had the honour of moderating a panel on ‘Monitoring, Evidence and Data’ for Land Portal during the 10th Anniversary Event of the VGGT. The intention was to take inspiration from a recently published data story questioning the provision of data and monitoring to measure the impacts of the Voluntary Guidelines over the past 10 years. Yet the topic was already highly visible, garnering much attention during the first day of the event.
4 October 2022
Sierra Leone
Colombia
Global
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.
20 September 2022
Global
Quick overview on the state of gender and land data and review of the concept of gender transformative change.
16 September 2022
Madagascar
Senegal
Global
An important precondition for good land governance is to have good land data that can be used to make informed decisions, formulate policies, and develop plans and strategies for the public good.
12 September 2022
Central Asia
Western Asia
Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, this What to Read digest reviews three articles that explore different, lesser-known territorial disputes - all of them in Asia.