The current pandemic brings concepts of property to the foreground.  Stay at home orders, social distancing, commercial closures, draconian border control, the interruption of air travel (to use just a few examples) are about how space is to be used, about new mandates for (most commonly) restrictions to commons, public, and private property, and often very intense social controversy over who gets to set the rules for property use.  How property is understood and treated in the planning process will now be one of our key issues going forward.  In Pandemics, Property, and Planning  a global group of scholars reflect on the pandemic’s meaning and implications through the lens of land-based property rights and spatial planning. 

This Earth Day marks the 50th Anniversary of a dedicated event to promote advocacy and education of environmental protection and our planet’s ecosystems. Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson established the first Earth Day event in 1970, which sparked Washington D.C. to adapt the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Global Land Alliance celebrates International Womens day 2020 in recognizing the intersectional leadership and action of women globally for land and property recognition. This year, we are highlighting unintended consequences of land tenure formalization that impact women involved in informal unions.

Global Land Alliance’s February edition of our Parcel Post contains articles entitled, “Securing Forest Tenure: GLA Partners to Pilot Forest Tenure Assessment Tool in three Countries”, “Out of Africa, on to Asia: The Land Tenure Journey of Dr. John Bruce” and “Terra Nova: A Sustainable Solution to Tenure Security and Recognition for Favelas in Brazil”. We are excited to share articles on these subjects here:

Global Land Alliance is hiring Prindex regional coordinators for the Latin America, MENA, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asian regions. We're looking for dynamic, highly motivated and self-propelled consultant to engage with a wide range of regional stakeholders to increase engagement with the Prindex initiative

GLA’s Malcolm Childress was interviewed by Catherine Cheney for DEVEX on the launch of a spinoff of Omidyar Network called PlaceFund, spun out of the property rights initiative at Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm launched by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

Global Land Alliance’s November edition of our Parcel Post contains articles entitled, “Do No Harm In Systematic Land Formalization: A Model For Social Risk Identification and Prevention In Dominican Republic Fragile Watersheds”, “Beyond ‘Ticking the Box’: Public Consultation as a Right not a Burden for Land Projects” and “Reviewing Existing Evidence of Perceived Tenure Security: Why Consistency Matters”. We are excited to share articles on these subjects here:

This past spring, Global Land Alliance and The Nature Conservancy began a partnership to complete an analysis of legal access to freshwater rights and resources in Colombia and Ecuador, as well as prepared and scoped for a full analysis to take place in early 2020 in Gabon, Angola and Brazil.

Curitiba, Brazil – Terra Nova, an organization that documents land ownership in order to improve quality of life in Brazilian settlements, and Global Land Alliance announced today a partnership to scale a proven model for mediating between land owners and favela occupants in Brazil and to develop a historical database for research purposes

Global Land Alliance, with its Dominican partner Fundacion REDDOM and expert technical assistance from Colombia Rural of Bogota and VIDENZA Consultores of Peru, recently completed a study for the Government of the Dominican Republic’s Unidad Técnica Ejecutora de Proyectos Agroforestales (UTEPDA) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

In her documentary film PUSH, Leilani Farha, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, reveals the human toll that global gentrification trends are taking, by capturing the personal testaments of those living in cities around the world who are experiencing the particular kind of housing insecurity that results from these trends.

¿Cuál es la Percepción en Honduras del Derecho de tenencias? Global Land Alliance participated in a forum at the Observatorio Universitario de Ordenamiento Territorial Faculty of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH) this past Tuesday.

Check out the Global Land Alliance August Parcel Post newsletter!

El mes pasado, Global Land Alliance y REDDOM se reunieron con miembros de la comunidad en la cuenca de Hondo Valle en la República Dominicana.

The Charles Koiner Center for Urban Farming (CKC), a local land trust dedicated to protecting urban land for the purpose of agriculture and education run by Global Land Alliance Associate Hannah Sholder and partner Kate Medina.

Global Land Alliance is proud to have worked with USAID Colombia, the Colombian National Land Agency and TetraTech to conceptualize and design the first systematic parcel sweep (barrido predial) in the municipality of Ovejas which is being utilized as the model case for future government and USAID efforts in securing land rights as part of the Colombia Peace Process.

National Bureau of Statistics in Tanzania's May newsletter demonstrates the important of Prindex data in assessing women's perceptions of tenure security.

Last month, 35 community leaders from 10 countries across the Global South gathered in Puerto Rico to learn about Community Land Trusts (CLTs)

Under contract with the World Bank office in Afghanistan Global Land Alliance conducted a Rapid Institutional Capacity Assessment (RICA) of the Afghanistan Land Authority (ARAZI).

During the 2019 World Bank Conference for Land and Poverty, an Analytical Framework for the Securing Forest Tenure Rights for Rural Development initiative was launched