Analysis & Commentary

This section contains articles written by Global Land Alliance staff and partners, on a variety of topics relating to land tenure, rights, and governance; spanning countries around the world.

Anna Freestone Anna Freestone

Supporting the 'Maintenance of Formality:' The Role of Colombian Municipalities

In what was once an epicenter of violence in rural Colombia, lives now a hopeful and welcoming community. Ovejas is a small rural municipality two and a half hours southeast of Cartagena, located in the state of Sucre. Through the Colombian Government’s Land and Rural Development Project (LRDP) funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Tetra Tech 

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Anna Freestone Anna Freestone

Early Lessons Learned From Testing UAVs for Geospatial Data Collection and Participatory Mapping

Revolutionary technological advances frequently face the most resistance from the very people in the technical fields that stand the most to gain from the advance. Change generates uncertainty and fear. Fear the “machines” will supplant the practitioners. It is no surprise, therefore, to see hesitation and reluctance by surveyors and traditional aerial mapping specialists in light of the rapidly increasing use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology for geospatial data collection.

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Anna Freestone Anna Freestone

Can We Bend the Curve on Land Governance by 2020?

The period 2015-2020 may become one of the most dynamic periods in the modern history of land tenure and governance, if we in the development community can get our act together and use a newfound consensus on prioritizing the resolution of land issues to address the biggest development challenges of our time.

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