• Os vínculos entre os dados abertos e as comunidades da terra amadureceram nos últimos quatro anos, juntamente com um reconhecimento da centralidade da governança fundiária para o desenvolvimento sustentável.
• O benchmarking (avaliação comparativa) e a medição de dados fundiários abertos é uma área chave para o progresso desde 2018, mas é preciso fazer mais para refinar os benchmarks globais, tais como o Barômetro Global de Dados.
• As iniciativas de dados abertos precisam considerar cuidadosamente seus objetivos sociais, políticos e econômicos devido às diferentes necessidades e interesses dos(as) produtores(as) e usuários(as) de dados fundiários. 

Este boletim informativo sobre países explora os desafios enfrentados pelas esposas informais e outras mulheres "invisíveis" para garantir a posse de suas terras, particularmente no contexto da formalização dos direitos de propriedade e das campanhas de titulação de terras.

Blog written by AYJAZ WANI for Observer Research Foundation

Originally posted at https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/kazakhstan-on-the-brink/

Main photo: Getty

The Land Portal works to embed land governance in open data discussions and vice versa. This primer is extracted from the recently published Open Up Guide for Land Governance.

First, What is Open Data?

By Sean Johnson, land administration specialist at COWI, Swaziland

* This piece was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa

By Allan Cain, Development Workshop Angola

* This article was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa

The Maasai community of Musul have lived on the same land in Laikipia county for generations. It is their source of food and water, the heart of their culture and beliefs, and their ancestral home. But until recently, their legal rights to govern it were tenuous.

WHY REJECT CUSTOMARY LAND PRIVATISATION 

Most of the world’s land is still stewarded by communities under customary systems. Billions of people rely on communally managed farmland, pasture, forests and savannahs for their livelihoods. 

This collective management of resources is viewed in the colonial or capitalist economic model as an obstacle to individual wealth creation and private profit. 

By Ben Cousins, Emeritus Professor, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape

* This article originally appeared in the The Conversation on 22 June 2021

Blog written by Robert Barnett and originally posted by Foreign Policy at: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/07/china-bhutan-border-villages-security-forces/

Advancing women’s land rights is a priority for the international development agenda. Yet, there is no consensus on which rights should be monitored and reported. Three indicators of women’s property rights are widely used in the literature. Each captures a different aspect of women’s land rights, but a recent paper explores the extent to which these different rights are held by the same person, using data from six African countries.