Datos para el desarrollo: la propiedad de la tierra y el estado de los datos abiertos
- Los vínculos entre las comunidades de los datos abiertos y de la tierra han madurado en los últimos cuatro años junto con el reconocimiento de la centralidad de la gobernanza de la tierra para el desarrollo sostenible.
- El análisis comparativo y la medición de los datos abiertos sobre la tierra es un área clave de progreso desde 2018, pero es necesario hacer más para perfeccionar los puntos de referencia globales, como el Barómetro Global de Datos.
- Las iniciativas de datos abiertos deben considerar cuidadosamente sus objetivos sociales, políticos y económicos debido a las diferentes necesidades e intereses de los productores y usuarios de datos sobre la tierra.
Esposas informales y otras mujeres "invisibles": el lado oscuro de la formalización de los derechos sobre la tierra
Este Boletín Perspectivas País explora los retos a los que se enfrentan las cónyuges informales y otras mujeres "invisibles" para asegurar su tenencia de la tierra, especialmente en el contexto de la formalización de los derechos sobre la tierra y las campañas de titulación.
Kazakhstan on the brink
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
Beginner's Guide to Open Land-Related Data
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?
Women’s Tenure Rights and Land Reform in Angola
By Allan Cain, Development Workshop Angola
* This article was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa
Musul – The 2nd community in Kenya to secure their land rights, the 1st to do so using legal empowerment
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.
This Is Our Land: Why Reject the Privatisation of Customary Land
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.
What landmark Kwazulu-Natal court ruling means for land reform in South Africa
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
International Workers' Day: Why all land rights are workers’ rights
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Land insecurity and inequality are endemic and keep families trapped in poverty for generations
Malcolm Childress is co-director of Prindex and executive director of Global Land Alliance