In June 2025, LAND-at-scale (LAS) partners from across the globe gathered in Colombia for a powerful three-day exchange, blending technical dialogue on land governance with immersive learning in the ancestral Arhuaco territory of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. This summary captures key insights from the exchange, focusing on Indigenous stewardship, intercultural governance, participatory tools, environmental recovery, and the power of global connection.
Setting the Scene: The 2025 Global Land Forum – Why Colombia, Why Now?
18 June 2025
The 2025 Global Land Forum (GLF) is convening more than 1,000 participants from over 90 countries to shape agendas that address some of the most urgent and complex land-related challenges of our time.
Understanding the tenure implications of Land Degradation Neutrality as a global policy and on the ground
03 June 2025
In this What To Read digest, we explore the two-way dynamics between land degradation neutrality and land tenure security for effectiveness and equity
Global Data Barometer Second Edition Launch - Africa
12 June 2025
The Global Data Barometer invites you to the launch of its second edition, with a special focus on Africa. Covering the period from August 31, 2022, to September 1, 2024, the second edition of the Barometer examines the state of data policies and practices across Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Global Data Barometer
Local Development Research Institute
International Development Research Centre
News & Events
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Recent events
9th India Land and Development Conference (ILDC)
18 November 2025 to 20 November 2025
Ahmedabad
India
ILDC is one of the biggest annual international conferences in the Global South that connects conversations on land and development. By bringing together a diverse range of stakeholders — researchers, policymakers, practitioners, civil society actors, and private sector professionals — it catalyses collective reflection, learning, and action around critical land questions imperative for development, locally and globally.
Organizers
Landstack
Land, Life and Society: International conference on the road to ICARRD+20
7 October 2025 to 9 October 2025
Cape Town
South Africa
A global conversation about the politics of land and resource struggles in an era of global and local crises
7-9 October 2025
University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
PLAAS is pleased to announce our upcoming international conference on Land, Life and Society.
Organizers
Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
Recent blogs
Setting the Scene: The 2025 Global Land Forum – Why Colombia, Why Now?
18 June 2025
The 2025 Global Land Forum (GLF) is convening more than 1,000 participants from over 90 countries to shape agendas that address some of the most urgent and complex land-related challenges of our time.
Recent News
Vietnam - Mise en œuvre efficace des politiques de soutien foncier pour les minorités ethniques
29 June 2925
Photo de couverture: “Agriculture” by Climate and Ecosystems Change Adaptation Research University Network, CC BY 2.0
Vietnam - Mise en œuvre efficace des politiques de soutien foncier pour les minorités ethniques
Báo Bắc Giang•27/06/2025
Safeguarding knowledge: Over 180 NELGA publications now accessible via the Land Portal
04 July 2025
The Land Portal is pleased to announce the ingestion of more than 180 publications related to the Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa (NELGA) into its online library. This collection includes a wide range of knowledge products—policy briefs, good practice reports, manuals, and in-depth studies—produced through years of collaboration between African academic institutions and partners working to strengthen land governance across the continent.
Our New Chapter Begins
20 May 2025
At the Land Portal Foundation, our vision is a world with improved land governance that supports people with insecure land rights, protects those vulnerable to landlessness, and ensures open access to information for all.