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Access the latest land news from trusted sources, discover events happening in your region and online, and read blogs by Land Portal users from around the world.

Recent events

LANDac Annual Conference 2025

2 July 2025 to 4 July 2025
Utrecht
Netherlands

Plurality of Knowledge: The future of land governance in shifting global contexts

Utrecht, the Netherlands | 2-4 July 2025

Call for Sessions opens 18 December 2024

 

Organizers
LANDac
Utrecht University

World Bank Land Conference 2025

5 May 2025 to 8 May 2025
Washington
DC
United States
The World Bank Land Conference is the premier global forum for the land sector, bringing together over 1,000 participants from governments, development partners, civil society, academia, and the private sector to showcase policy-relevant research, discuss technical issues and sector good practice, and inform policy dialogue. The Conference also aims to encourage cross-sectoral knowledge exchange and has incubated numerous investments, initiatives, and research projects led by diverse stakeholders, including the Voluntary Guidelines, the Land Governance Assessment Framework, and the Stand for Her Land Campaign. Find out more at www.worldbank.org/landconf.
Organizers
World Bank Group

Recent blogs

Africa's carbon deals and the hidden tenure challenge

13 December 2024
Anne Hennings
Luis Baquero

Observers marked 2023 as a “make-or-break” year for voluntary carbon markets and a key “inflection point” for their role in addressing climate change and global deforestation. Proponents highlight that forest carbon projects channel much-needed funds towards forest protection and are pivotal to climate change mitigation. However, critics emphasize that carbon deals set incentives for over-crediting. Moreover, carbon offsetting allows the biggest emitters to simply outsource their climate mitigation efforts with potentially adverse impacts for affected communities.

Recent News

Recent News

Opportunity: Ad Hoc Graphic Designer

13 December 2024

Land Portal Foundation graphic design is a crucial component of optimizing our identity across all channels and has been key to building a professional brand. Our consistent marketing collateral has enabled our brand to be easily recognizable and allowed our stakeholders to quickly get familiar with what we have to offer. Our graphic design is in part a source of our credibility.  We rely on strong visual foundations to communicate confidence in our work and in our expertise.

GIZ Knowledge Exchange Workshop 2024 in Senegal Took a Deep Dive on Anchoring Practitioners’ Experience in Responsible Land Governance Systems

13 December 2024

As part of its efforts to promote secure land tenure in Africa, three Programmes of German Development Cooperation joined hands and brought together 120 land experts from 17 countries to discuss Responsible Land Governance Systems in Somone, Senegal on 7-11 October 2024. These were: the “Global Programme on Responsible Land Policy” (GPRLP), the “Global Programme Strengthening Advisory Capacities for Land Governance in Africa” (SLGA) and the bilateral project “Seen Suuf - Support for the improvement of land management”. This was the second such workshop after the Knowledge Exchange Workshop in June 2022 in Uganda, entitled "Secure Land Rights – Learning, Collaboration and Practice", and was intended to deepen exchanges as well as share lessons learned.

NEWS: Land Portal welcomes 2024 World Bank Land Conference materials into the Land Library

04 December 2024

December 3, 2024 — At the Land Portal, we are committed to advancing the accessibility and long-term sustainability of knowledge on land governance. The World Bank Land Conference is one of the premier venues for knowledge exchange on land, and we were thrilled when the organizers requested our support in making the 2024 conference session materials available to the public in our Land Library, which now hosts over 73,000 publications on land governance. 

 

Launch of the Open Data Champions Initiative

21 November 2024

We are excited to announce the launch of the Open Data Champions Initiative, an effort to celebrate and elevate leaders worldwide who champion open data in the land sector. This initiative shines a spotlight on the incredible individuals dedicated to advancing data transparency and access, especially within the Global South. These champions are at the forefront of transformative change, harnessing the power of data to address critical land governance challenges.