The 2019 Land for Life Award: Decades of Impact
21 March 2019
The Land for Life Award was launched at the UNCCD COP10 in the Republic of Korea as part of the Changwon Initiative.
Realizing women’s land rights in Africa
Women Inheriting Land: Rights and Realities
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20 March 2019
Shipra Deo
Landesa - Rural Development Institute
Land Rights for Slum Dwellers in Odisha: Making technology work for the urban poor
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19 March 2019
Narayana Gatty
Five ways to improve the Land Information Ecosystem in India
20 March 2019
The data ecosystem is an extremely vast and cluttered space. What data exist? What data is up to date? What data is reliable? Who owns the data? Can I use the data without inflicting harm? Who are the data subjects? Many people across numerous sectors struggle with such questions and more on a daily basis. The land governance sector in India is no different. But somehow, it seems the land data ecosystem in India is more complex and controversial.
Palm oil’s complex land conflicts
13 March 2019
Getting to the bottom of illegal plantations on Indonesia’s state owned forests
In an ideal world, palm oil production would cause no deforestation, and have a transparent and fair supply chain. In reality, the impacts of the sector have been the cause of ethical concerns worldwide.
Landmark court ruling could spark land compensation claims for indigenous Australians
13 March 2019
DARWIN, AUSTRALIA - Australia’s High Court on Wednesday ruled that Aboriginal owners stripped of land rights should be compensated for “spiritual harm,” in a landmark ruling that could spark a slew of cases countrywide.
The court ruled that the Ngaliwurru and Nungali peoples in the Northern Territory were entitled to compensation for being disconnected from their lands by the government.
The first Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) portal in Cambodia
15 March 2019
Cambodia aims to fasten its economic growth while fully committing to sustainable development. To avoid adverse impacts from the development and promote long term benefits to economic, social and environmental change, the practice of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) shall be enforced. And since EIA has become an essential feature of sustainable development for improving well-being and equity from the development, the public must fully participate in policy debates and seek legal redress and claim what they dese
African Youth Fight Land Corruption
14 March 2019
African youth must have access to land — for agriculture, industry, offices and housing — if entrepreneurial activities are to provide sustainable livelihoods.
Mekong Region: scientific report shows urgent need for transformation
12 March 2019
The report “State of Land in the Mekong Region” was launched today in Vientiane, Lao PDR. The first publication of its kind in the Mekong Region, it brings together key data and information on the current status of, and changes in, land resources, their social distribution, and the conditions of governance that shape them. The report stresses the need for urgent action towards transformational change. It was co-produced by the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) of the University of Bern and the Mekong Region Land Governance Project (MRLG).