In October 2016, women farmers from 22 countries across Africa climbed the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro to claim women’s rights for access to and control over land and natural resources.

This is an opportunity provided by the Reporting Land Rights programme: Find out more 

Large-scale acquisition of land in the global South has received a great deal of interest in the last few years. Especially following the food crisis, and stimulated by the growing demand for biofuels, pressure on land continues to increase.

LAND GOVERNANCE IN TRANSITION: 

How to support transformations that work for people and nature?

Many women around the world are working to improve their land rights. Yet the access to their land is often insecure. During this evening, you will hear stories by women who are involved in different initiatives at the grassroots level – from the Netherlands to Malawi. What lessons can we learn and how can they generate ideas that lead to more action on the ground? 

Kick-off event: meet female land rights champions, make your work more effective and join the festive launch of a photo exhibition

Around the world, insecure property rights prevent families from feeling confident about the future, businesses from investing, and communities from becoming more productive. Hundreds of millions of us lack property security. This makes the world poorer, less free, and less just.

The Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa invites you to a public conversation between:

Nicolette Naylor, Ford Foundation

and

Sibongile Ndashe, Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa

Date: 10 July 2018

Time 16:30 for 17:00 – 19:00

Venue: ISLA Offices

15^th Floor Marble Towers

208 – 211 Jeppe Street

The Land Portal Foundation, Mokoro Ltd and Transparency International co-hosted an interactive webinar on sextortion in land governance and its implications on June 25th, 2018. The webinar featured an interactive discussion among expert panelists.

The Land Portal Foundation, the Cadasta Foundation, the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Thematic Network on Good Governance of Extractive and Land Resources will co-host an interactive webinar to highlight the critical links betw