Post Type: LandLinks Scans

What’s New on LandLinks – 1 June 2018

Posted on by Amrit Bhandari

In lieu of our weekly scan of recent land tenure and resource management media items, we are highlighting the latest content on LandLinks at the end of each month. In case you missed it, here is a roundup of the new content on LandLinks, from USAID land-related project documents to blogs by our land experts, and more:

USAID LandLinks Blogs & Reports

  1. Chocolate’s Sustainability Challenge – written by Jeff King, highlighting TGCC’s partnership with Hershey’s & ECOM in Ghana (5/11/18)
  2. USAID Land Champion: Jennifer Chow (5/23/18)
  3. Six Lessons from the First Investor Survey on Land Rights – originally published on the Global Landscapes Forum website (5/25/18)
  4. Investor Survey On Land Rights (5/30/18)

Agrilinks Land Tenure Month

The following articles were originally posted on Agrilinks, and cross-posted with permission during a month-long focus on land, resource and marine tenure for food security in April:

  1. Land Policy for the Next Generation (5/2/18)
  2. Improving Large Scale Agriculture Investments (5/2/18)
  3. Q&A on the Interconnections Between Land Tenure and Food Security (5/2/18)
  4. The African Land Policy Centre Helps Lead the Land Reform Agenda (5/2/18)
  5. Improving the Economic Benefits of Landholders in Ethiopia (5/2/18)
  6. Six Myths About Youth and Land – originally published on Chemonics’ Blog (5/2/18)

Colombia: Land and Rural Development Program (LRDP)

  1. We Always had the Authority to Do Our Work, USAID Made it Easier to Operate (5/2/18)

Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS)

  1. LandPKS Developing New Soil Health Module (5/18/18)

What’s New on LandLinks – 27 April 2018

Posted on by Amrit Bhandari

In lieu of our weekly scan of recent land tenure and resource management media items, we are highlighting the latest content on LandLinks at the end of each month. In case you missed it, here is a roundup of the new content on LandLinks, from USAID land-related project documents to blogs by our land experts, and more:

USAID LandLinks Blogs & Events

  1. Webinar: Private Sector Perspectives on Responsible Land-Based Investment, Part II (3/8/18)
  2. Intimate Partner Violence and Land Tenure (3/16/18)
  3. 7 Ways USAID is Strengthening Land Rights (3/21/18) – Written by Carrie Thompson, Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment (E3)
  4. USAID and IUCN Partner to Advance Gender in the Environment (3/23/18) – Originally published on IUCN’s blog
  5. Private Sector Perspectives on Responsible Land-Based Investment: You Asked, We Answered (4/2/18)
  6. Webinar: The Business Case for Land Rights: Results from the 2018 Investor Survey (4/5/18)
  7. A Look Back at the 2018 World Bank Land and Poverty Conference (4/18/18)
  8. Intimate Partner Violence and Land Toolkit (4/23/18)

Colombia: Land and Rural Development Project (LRDP)

  1. Understanding and Resolving Land Conflicts is the First Step (3/13/18)
  2. Chengue Dances (4/17/18)
  3. Peace of Land – Hosted on USAID Stories (4/24/18)

Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS)

  1. Announcing the Release of LandPKS 3.0 (4/16/18)

Land Technology Solutions (LTS)

  1. USAID Improves its Innovative Technology to Strengthen Land Tenure: MAST (4/18/18)

Liberia: Land Governance Support Activity (LGSA)

  1. Women’s Land Rights in Liberia in Law, Practice, and Future Reforms: LGSA Women’s Land Rights Study (3/19/18)

Philippines: Strengthening Urban Resilience for Growth with Equity (SURGE)

  1. Indigenous people of Cagayan de Oro City receive land titles (4/27/18)

Tajikistan: Land Market Development Activity (LMDA) Project

  1. LMDA Success Story: Signing contracts guarantees and protects farmers’ rights (4/16/18)

Tenure and Global Climate Change: Global (TGCC)

  1. Ask the Expert: An Interview with Emiko Guthe, Tenure and Global Climate Change – Burma (3/2/18)
  2. Ask the Expert: An Interview with Ryan Sarsfield, Global Forest Watch (3/2/18)
  3. Ask the Expert: An Interview with Yaw Adarkwah Antwi, Tenure and Global Climate Change – Ghana (3/2/18)
  4. Ask the Expert: An Interview with Matt Sommerville, Tenure and Global Climate Change – Global (3/2/18)
  5. Ask the Expert: An Interview with Catherine (Kitty) Courtney, Tenure and Global Climate Change – Marine Tenure (3/2/18)
  6. Ask the Expert: An Interview with Tao Van Dang, Tenure and Global Climate Change – Vietnam (3/2/18)
  7. TGCC Zambia: In My Own Name: Empowering Women Through Secure Land Rights (3/13/18)
  8. TGCC Zambia: Stronger Together: Partnerships to Strengthen Land Rights in Zambia (3/13/18)
  9. TGCC Zambia: Uniting Tradition and Tenure Documenting Custom Land Rights in Zambia (3/13/18)
  10. TGCC Zambia: Strengthening Land Rights for Sustainable Farming: Customary Land Documentation and Agroforestry in Zambia (3/13/18)
  11. Data Visualization: Impact Evaluation of the Tenure & Global Climate Change Project in Zambia (3/13/18)
  12. TGCC Success Story: Pyoe Khin Thit Foundation Utilize Participatory Mapping to Address Village Land Rights (3/21/18)

What’s New on LandLinks – 23 February 2018

Posted on by Amrit Bhandari

In lieu of our weekly scan of recent land tenure and resource management media items, we are highlighting the latest content on LandLinks at the end of each month. In case you missed it, here is a roundup of the new content on LandLinks, from USAID land-related project documents to blogs by our land experts, and more:

USAID LandLinks Blogs & Events

  1. Gaining Ground in 2017 (1/30/18)
  2. USAID Land Champion: Zemen Haddis, PhD (2/6/18)
  3. Webinar: Mangrove Forest Restoration and Management: Social & Governance Dimensions (2/15/18)
  4. Land Tenure and Property Rights MOOC 3.0 (1/8-4/15/18)

Colombia: Land and Rural Development Project (LRDP)

  1. Historical Land Decree for Women (2/7/18)
  2. Cassava and the Next Generation (2/23/18)

Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS)

  1. LandCover: A Mobile Tool for Vegetation Monitoring (2/21/18)

Tajikistan: Land Market Development Activity (LMDA) Project

  1. LMDA Success Story: Simplified Registration Offices for Immovable Property Rolled Out in Nine Districts of Khatlon Region (1/30/18)

Ukraine: Agriculture and Rural Development Support (ARDS) Project

  1. ARDS Success Story: Land of Plenty: Helping Communities Realize the Benefits of Rural Land (2/21/18)
  2. ARDS Video: Land Management in Consolidated Territorial Community of Kipti (2/21/18)

What’s New on LandLinks – 26 January 2018

Posted on by Amrit Bhandari

In lieu of our weekly scan of recent land tenure and resource management media items, we are highlighting the latest content on LandLinks at the end of each month. In case you missed it, here is a roundup of the new content on LandLinks, from USAID land-related project documents to blogs by our land experts, and more:

USAID Land Champions and Events

  1. USAID Land Champion: Daler Asrorov (1/11/18)
  2. USAID Land Champion: Silvia Petrova (11/28/17)
  3. Land Tenure and Property Rights MOOC 3.0 (1/8-4/15/18)

Central African Republic: Property Rights and Artisanal Diamond Development II (PRADD II)

  1. Building Peace in the Diamond Mining Areas of the Central African Republic (11/21/17)

Colombia: Land and Rural Development Project (LRDP)

  1. Bolívar is the Pioneer of Secondary Occupants (1/22/18)
  2. Ownership, Simplified (1/12/18)
  3. Public Land On Display (12/20/17)
  4. There is No Sense in Doing Such a Complex Job to Lose it All in the End (12/7/17)
  5. Coming to Life (11/27/17)

Côte d’Ivoire: Property Rights and Artisanal Diamond Development II (PRADD II)

  1. Cashew Trees Abuzz in The Diamond Mining Areas of Côte d’Ivoire (12/12/17)
  2. New Technology is Shaking Up The Diamond Mining Industry in Côte d’Ivoire (12/12/17)

Kosovo: Engagement for Equity (E4E)

  1. Property Rights Bring Jobs, Business Growth to Women in Kosovo (12/19/17)

Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS)

  1. Location Matters! LandPKS Can Provide Point-Scale Soil Information (1/22/18)
  2. Online Training for Using the LandPKS App – Available Now! (12/14/17)

Land Technology Solutions (LTS) Project

  1. USAID Mobile Applications: Helping Smallholder Farmers Document Their Land Rights (1/28/18)

The Philippines: Strengthening Urban Resilience for Growth with Equity (SURGE) Project

  1. USAID joins first ASEAN Land Governance Summit in Manila (1/18/18)

What’s New on LandLinks – 20 November 2017

Posted on by Amrit Bhandari

In lieu of our weekly scan of recent land tenure and resource management media items, we are highlighting the latest content on LandLinks at the end of each month. In case you missed it, here is a roundup of the new content on LandLinks, from USAID land-related project documents to blogs by our land experts, and more:

Burma: Tenure and Global Climate Change (TGCC)

  1. TGCC Burma: Steps Toward Land (10/20/17)
  2. TGCC Burma: Strengthening Women’s Land Tenure (10/20/17)
  3. TGCC Burma: Mapping Our Land [Full-Version] (10/20/17)

Colombia: Land and Rural Development Project (LRDP)

  1. A Century and a Half of Schooling (11/9/17)

Côte d’Ivoire: Property Rights and Artisanal Diamond Development II (PRADD II)

  1. PRADD II Snapshot: How Simple Terraces and Bore Holes Could Transform Diamond Mining (10/23/17)

Tanzania: Feed the Future Land Tenure Assistance (LTA)

  1. LTA Baseline Report: Impact Evaluation of the Feed the Future Tanzania Land Tenure Assistance Activity (10/26/17)
  2. LTA Success Story: Land Registration Opens Economic Doors for Women in Kiponzelo (10/26/17)

USAID LandLinks Blogs

  1. USAID Seeks Investor Input for Survey on Land Rights (11/16/17)
  2. The Business Case for Land Rights: You Asked, We Answered (11/16/17)
  3. The Business Case for Land Rights: Private Sector Perspectives on Responsible Land-Based Investment Webinar (11/2/17)
  4. USAID Launches New Learning Platform to Promote Land Technology Solutions (10/27/17)
  5. USAID Land Champion: Harold Carey (10/26/17)
  6. Launch of the African Land Policy Centre Heralds Better Governance of Land (10/20/17)