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The power of storytelling

18 May 2022
Lilian Lee

 

The Land Portal advocates for more and better open land data, but more and better have never been our end objectives. Data must be used; it needs a purpose. One of the ways we practice what we preach is through our data stories. 

Conflicts threaten food security and biodiversity. How can we overcome these challenges?

13 May 2022

The consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on food security and biodiversity go beyond the countries’ borders. The prices of food and other essential agricultural commodities skyrocket and go beyond the capacity of many. As a result, more people are vulnerable to hunger. “How to prevent hunger” has become a hot topic, especially as conflict erupts in the breadbasket of the world between Russia and Ukraine, threatening both food security and biodiversity.



A Story about Maize: Tracing a value chain from land-use to supermarket shelf

13 May 2022
Daniel Hayward

 

Maize is a key global cash crop, produced in every continent except Antarctica. As a flex crop, it has multiple uses including for direct human consumption, as an ingredient for animal feed, as a key component in processed foods, or in ethanol production. According to figures from FAOSTAT, global production increased from 0.2 to 1.2 billion tons between 1961 and 2020.

Transparency Kazakhstan presented the results of monitoring the state of corruption in the country for 2020

13 January 2021

Today in the building of the Central Communications Service Olga Shiyan, Executive Director of Transparency Kazakhstan, presented the results of the study «Monitoring the state of corruption in Kazakhstan for 2020», implemented with the assistance of the United Nations Development Program in Kazakhstan.
Transparency Kazakhstan experts interviewed 9,000 respondents at the level of cities, regional and district centers and studied 1,347 applications received on the Open Dialogue portal.

DRC logging contracts suspended as audit uncovers serious violations

06 May 2022
  • The publication of an audit of forestry contracts in the Democratic Republic of Congo has exposed serious management failures.
  • The audit cites serial breaches of the country’s forest code and more than a dozen violations of a 2002 moratorium on new concessions.
  • The DRC’s environment minister announced the immediate suspension of forestry contracts deemed illegal by the audit, saying that where a special commission confirms the Inspectorate General of Finance’s findings, those contracts will be canceled.
  • The audit is the first re
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