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Achieving responsible large-scale land based investments: why aren’t best practices a done deal?

18 March 2018
Lukasz Czerwinski

Over the last 10 years, a clear consensus has emerged: investments in land should be done responsibly. However, understanding tenure-related risk in the context of land-based agricultural investments in emerging markets can be complex.


For individual women and men within communities, these complexities can have severe and negative effects on their land and livelihoods. This is especially true for more vulnerable members of the community: widowed or divorced women, youth, and ethnic minorities.


To close the gap in women’s land rights, we need to do a better job of measuring it

06 March 2018
Mercedes Stickler

There is broad global agreement that secure property rights help eradicate poverty and that securing women’s land rights reduces gender inequality. But our understanding remains strikingly limited when it comes to the extent to which women’s land rights are – or are not – secure and the impact of women’s tenure security (or lack thereof) on women’s empowerment.


This is true even in Africa, where the most studies have been published, due to shortcomings in both the quality and quantity of research on these questions.

 

From Norway to India: the Importance of Land Rights to Increasing Opportunity and Prosperity

23 February 2018
thanstad

By Tim Hanstad, Co-Founder & Senior Advisor, Landesa

 

This is the first blog in a series of two that are based on a keynote address made at the 2018 India Land Development Conference.

 

I have been working on issues of land rights for more than 31 years in more than 22 countries, but no country has captured my attention, focus and heart more than India.  

 

Property rights have a storytelling problem: 5 tips for getting the story right

18 January 2018
Yuliya Panfil

It's time to ditch the jargon and tell stories about property rights that create the impact needed for change


In a world bombarded with information, stories are everything. Strong storylines can inspire movements and shift attitudes. The “99 percent” story sparked a global conversation about income inequality, and fueled the Occupy Wall Street movement.


What is counted will count: why getting SDG land indicators to Tier I matters

05 January 2018
cpenrosebuckley

There’s been quite a hubbub in the land community the last month over the reclassification of two land indicators from ‘Tier III’ to ‘Tier II’. So what’s this all about? For the uninitiated, each SDG indicator has to go through a validation process before it gets included in the formal SDG reporting process that will run from 2020 to 2030.

With Reclassification, SDG Indicator 1.4.2 Has Made it to the Starting Gate: Collaboration is Key to Finishing the Race

Yuliya Panfil

On Nov. 13 in Bahrain, the Inter-Agency Expert Group on the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators voted to reclassify SDG Land Indicator 1.4.2 from Tier III to Tier II status.  This is a significant win for the property rights community, and a validation that a coordinated effort from many different players can indeed make a difference.


However, the road there was not easy.


IAEG-SDGs upgrade Indicator 1.4.2 to Tier II Status!!

On 12th November 2017, the 6th meeting of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) reached a major decision to reclassify tenure security Indicator 1.4.2 from Tier III to II in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. This decision marks the beginning of a global journey to monitor tenure security for all, using comparable land indicators for globally comparable data.

Access to Land Lies at the Heart of Ending Poverty

From 11-14 November in Bahrain, decisions are being made that will influence priorities of governments around the world.

In September 2015, at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 193 countries endorsed the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals – known as the SDGs or Global Goals. This collection of 17 ambitious goals and 169 targets form a framework to address the global challenge of eradicating poverty.