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New book on Mekong examines key land issues featuring extensive research

New book on Mekong examines key land issues featuring extensive research
08 December 2021
Romy Sato
Daniel Hayward

Curating land information is part of our daily work in the Land Portal. It includes selecting, categorizing, and enriching information with analysis and/or additional data, graphic visualizations, etc. In times with so much information available to choose from, people are increasingly seeking sources that offer selections of high-quality knowledge and provide analysis that make sense of it. Understanding how partners in the land community are meeting this demand is a great source for us to improve our work of curating, and providing meaning to land data.

 

Increasing Segregation? Impact of Covid19 in the Cities of Africa and South Asia

Increasing Segregation? Impact of Covid19 in the Cities of Africa and South Asia
04 April 2020
Philip Amis

The current Covid 19 pandemic is likely to spread in the next few weeks and months to the South and in particular South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa. The impact may well be of a greater scale than that currently experienced in the North; India was the region with the highest loss of live in the 1918-1919 Spanish flu Pandemic. The experience and historical experience suggests that urban areas will be disproportionately affected.

“This plot is not for sale!”: Land Administration and Land Disputes in Uganda

“This plot is not for sale!”: Land Administration and Land Disputes in Uganda
06 November 2019
Teddy Kisembo

“This plot is not for sale” are the six words you will find, marked on a lot of properties and plots of land in Uganda. The words are meant to ward off quack land or property brokers and conmen. Most of the cases handled in courts in Uganda, and Kampala in particular, are fraud-related cases (like selling land while the true owners are away using counterfeit titles) and land transaction fraud (when fake land titles are obtained and sadly some officers in the land registry are involved).

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Events

The Twelfth Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF12)

The Twelfth Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF12)
04 November 2024 - 08 November 2024
Cairo
Egypt

WUF12 will focus on localizing the Sustainable Development Goals, shedding light on the local actions and initiatives required to curb the current global challenges affecting the daily life of people, including unaffordable housing, rising living costs, climate change, the lack of basic services, and ongoing conflicts.

It all starts locally.

United Nations Human Settlements Programme

Challenges of Cyber Security in Digital Land Administration: Digital security in the area of data, AI and sustainable cities

Challenges of Cyber Security in Digital Land Administration: Digital security in the area of data, AI and sustainable cities
24 April 2024

The webinar, organized by the UNECE Working Party on Land Administration (WPLA), follows a study on ecosystems and security in land administration. It explores the complex landscape shaped by global megatrends and sector-specific drivers, emphasizing the role of technology and digitalization in land administration.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
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Library

Urban Land Conflicts and Evictions in Latin America and the Caribbean

Reports & Research
August, 2017
Latin America and the Caribbean

The Latin American and Caribbean Urban CSO Cluster, part of the Global Land Tools Network (GTLN), together with Habitat for Humanity’s Solid Ground Campaign and the Land Portal Foundation, launched an online debate on Urban Land Conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean in January 2017. Responding to the common interest to make information easy to access and flow to boost collaboration among stakeholders as a critical basis to improve land governance.

Global Urban Lectures: Geoffrey Payne - Improving urban tenure security and property rights

Training Resources & Tools
Multimedia
June, 2017
Global

Geoffrey Payne outlines five fundamental propositions that are key to his understanding of tenure issues and policy options.

These are:

1) That access to affordable land with adequate security of tenure and associated rights is a pre-condition for realising the goal of adequate housing and poverty reduction;

An Overview of Large-Scale Investments in the Mekong Region

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Cambodia
Laos
Myanmar
Thailand
Vietnam

WEBSITE INTRODUCTION: Across the Mekong region, ‘development’ has become synonymous with rapid economic growth, to be achieved through predominantly large-scale, private investments. The development model promoted by the region’s governments prioritizes trade and investment liberalization, and privatization. Private investment is sought in virtually every sector of the economy from energy, oil, minerals, agriculture and food processing to education, health, tourism, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, transportation and urban infrastructure.

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There are 3, 614 content items of different types and languages related to urban areas on the Land Portal.

Urban areas as defined by the Census Bureau are densely-populated areas with at least 50,000 people ("urbanized areas") and densely-populated areas with 2,500 to 50,000 people ("urban clusters").