• Los vínculos entre las comunidades de los datos abiertos y de la tierra han madurado en los últimos cuatro años junto con el reconocimiento de la centralidad de la gobernanza de la tierra para el desarrollo sostenible.
• El análisis comparativo y la medición de los datos abiertos sobre la tierra es un área clave de progreso desde 2018, pero es necesario hacer más para perfeccionar los puntos de referencia globales, como el Barómetro Global de Datos.
• Las iniciativas de datos abiertos deben considerar cuidadosamente sus objetivos sociales, políticos y económicos debido a las diferentes necesidades e intereses de los productores y usuarios de datos sobre la tierra.

Este Boletín Perspectivas País explora los retos a los que se enfrentan las cónyuges informales y otras mujeres "invisibles" para asegurar su tenencia de la tierra, especialmente en el contexto de la formalización de los derechos sobre la tierra y las campañas de titulación.

Blog written by AYJAZ WANI for Observer Research Foundation

Originally posted at https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/kazakhstan-on-the-brink/

Main photo: Getty

The Land Portal works to embed land governance in open data discussions and vice versa. This primer is extracted from the recently published Open Up Guide for Land Governance.

First, What is Open Data?

By Sean Johnson, land administration specialist at COWI, Swaziland

* This piece was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa

By Allan Cain, Development Workshop Angola

* This article was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa

The Maasai community of Musul have lived on the same land in Laikipia county for generations. It is their source of food and water, the heart of their culture and beliefs, and their ancestral home. But until recently, their legal rights to govern it were tenuous.

WHY REJECT CUSTOMARY LAND PRIVATISATION 

Most of the world’s land is still stewarded by communities under customary systems. Billions of people rely on communally managed farmland, pasture, forests and savannahs for their livelihoods. 

This collective management of resources is viewed in the colonial or capitalist economic model as an obstacle to individual wealth creation and private profit. 

By Ben Cousins, Emeritus Professor, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape

* This article originally appeared in the The Conversation on 22 June 2021

Blog written by Robert Barnett and originally posted by Foreign Policy at: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/07/china-bhutan-border-villages-security-forces/

Advancing women’s land rights is a priority for the international development agenda. Yet, there is no consensus on which rights should be monitored and reported. Three indicators of women’s property rights are widely used in the literature. Each captures a different aspect of women’s land rights, but a recent paper explores the extent to which these different rights are held by the same person, using data from six African countries.