Join USAID to learn more about land tenure and property rights country by country, in the second webinar of the series. In this 30 minute webinar we will examine land tenure and property rights in Tanzania, and explore USAID’s recently updated Land Tenure Country Profile for Tanzania with Dr. Maureen Moriarty-Lempke, the country profile’s primary author. Join the discussion […]

Webinar:Using community by-laws to secure customary land rights in Kenya November 16, 2016 What time? 18.30–20.00 (Yangon), 15.00–16.30 (Nairobi), 12.00–13.30 (London), 07.00-0830 (New York) Indigenous and rural communities that use customary land tenure systems are among the least likely populations to have legal recognition of their rights to their lands and natural resources. This webinar […]

Join the Landportal debate on Challenges and prospects for collective property rights in South America, taking place from October 23 - November 11, 2016. Until recently, much of the rural land around the world has been managed by peasant communities or indigenous peoples under customary land tenure systems. Nonetheless, land ownership and control of the […]

International workshop on Alternative Discourses of Payments for Ecosystem Services in the Global South,  April 10-12, 2017, Duke University Payments for ecosystem services (PES) provide financial incentives to landowners to manage ecosystems in ways that are thought to produce environmental benefits: greenhouse gas sequestration, biodiversity conservation, or cleaner and/or greater quantities of water downstream. Based on […]

The Netherlands is co-organizing a side event titled "Scaling Up Government Support to Secure Land Rights: Key to Achieving 2030 Global Goals " at the upcoming UN General Assembly in New York. Securing land rights for indigenous peoples and communities contributes to inclusive economic development, environmental sustainability, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and are a key […]

The Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security are intended to protect the legitimate land rights of all, but ... What are legitimate land rights?How can promoting the idea of “legitimacy” address the gap between policies and development outcomes? Join  experts from USAID, […]

While land rights are recorded systematically in most countries, water rights are not. This makes it easier for vested interests to capture and abuse them. So would there be an added value of registering water rights, the way land rights are registered? In a webinar next week (September 13, Tuesday; 1100 GMT click here for […]