2 January 2023
As we embark on the holiday season, I want to thank you and the rest of our Land Portal community for your ongoing support. It is only through your engagement and commitment that we can continue to provide outstanding programming, information, and data about land governance around the world. In
30 December 2022
Sri Lanka’s agriculture authorities are planning to grab 14,000 acres of paddy
13 December 2022
Attempts to re-expropriate assets of Sri Lanka’s privatized commercial plantations on the pretext of being under-utilized will undermine property rights and discourage investors, officials and analysts said.
6 December 2022
The Land Portal is hiring researchers with expertise on Liberia, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Mozambique, Ghana, and The Gambia.
23 November 2022
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-
23 November 2022
A new country portfolio unpacks the complexity of governing land in India.
23 November 2022
The Sudan country profile is now also available in Arabic.
16 November 2022
Transparency International is inviting experts to work on a consultancy about how land corruption affects discriminated and marginalised groups.
9 November 2022
Indigenous groups in Indonesia ask EU for help enshrining rights as part of free-trade agreement
5 November 2022
Chinese land grabs and interferences into Nepal’s territory are often not taken seriously by the Nepalese government, claims SADF article
31 October 2022
Over 14,000 persons who had chosen to stay back in India and embraced Indian citizenship instead of returning to Bangladesh are grappling for seven years to get proper documents of their land.