Global Land Alliance acknowledges that we, as individuals and as an organization, benefit from the traditional land of the Nacotchtank and the Piscataway Conoy People working in what is now known as Washington D.C. As a core value of our mission, we believe that the Indigenous knowledge is key to advancing rights to land and resources.

In the summer of 2023, Global Land Alliance’s Brazilian team and Brazilian partners Torsiano Consulting set out to conceptualize how the Brazilian government could approach the designation of public lands in the Amazon. Our team analyzed the efforts currently underway by the Brazilian government how they are improving and accelerating public land allocation process, which will have dual-benefits for climate outcomes and rights for Indigenous People and forest-dwelling communities in the Amazon. The following article is a summary of the legal and operational analysis.

This week Global Land Alliance and Prindex formally signed on as global partners of the Stand for Her Land (S4HL). We look forward to collaborating with, supporting coalition partners from around the work to advance the vision of S4HL: to bridge the gap between law and practice for Women Land Rights.

Last week, Andrea Teran and Christina Kuntz from GLA traveled to Bolivia to meet with representatives of the Bolivian National Institute for Agrarian Reform (INRA), Inter-American Development Bank, Fundación de la Cordillera (FUNDECOR), and other consultants for GLA's work regarding environmental and social safeguards within the land formalization process, land administration process, and institutional capacity building in Bolivia. 

Global Land Alliance has been selected by the European Commission (EC) to receive a €2.1 million grant to advance Prindex. It is part of an overall effort by the EC to advance land governance with the International Land Coalition (ILC), and underscores the importance of data on perceptions of land and property rights. This grant will further develop the global study which asks people how likely they think it is that they will lose their land or property against their will in the next 5 years.

On April 20th, 2023, Dominican Republican newspaper outlet Listin Diario published an article entitled “Datos para ordenar el territorio”. The article discusses new Dominican Law No. 368-22 on Territorial Planning, Land Use and Human Settlements and obstacles that the government entities in-country have in implementation. One particular factor, the article notes, is the absence of up-to-date geographic and territorial information by the municipal governments, as highlighted by a GLA and IDB study.

We are pleased to announce that Global Land Alliance has joined the PLACE Community as the first PLACE Founding Member..

Earlier this month, Global Land Alliance’s Executive Director submitted an open letter, joining a collective voice promoting Brazilian State support for CLT initiatives, and influence representatives to take supportive measures to affordable housing and long-term community-building, development and/or guarantee of rights.

How do we better ensure that women are not left worse off after Land Tenure formalization campaigns? From February 21-25th, a Global Land Alliance team comprised of Laura Restrepo and Maribel Arguello visited the small villages of Tierra Grata and Chafurry in the Puerto Lleras municipality, which is in the larger Meta department of Colombia.

In Colombia, as part of the Land for Prosperity program: (1) GLA has developed a protocol for identifying and referring cases of Gender Based Violence in the context of land formalization activities that take place as part of LFP's Massive Parcel Sweep […]

Global Land Alliance (GLA) participated in the international conference organized by Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development, Water and Forests of the Kingdom of Morocco. The conference took place on February 22 and 23, 2023 in Rabat and was focused on the findings and recommendations of an in-depth report about the issues of land division.

The Government of Kenya, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Land Coalition (ILC) Africa and Global Land Alliance will host the the first-ever Regional Land Data and Digitalization Conference will bring together key actors in Africa and beyond to share good practices in data technologies and digitalization for the land sector

Global Land Alliance’s November 2022 edition of our Parcel Post contains articles entitled: Treaties, Indigenous Land And Resource Rights In The Great Lakes And Enbridge’s Line 5 Pipeline: Interview With Whitney Gravelle by Christen Corcoran; Treaties, Indigenous Land And Resource Rights In The Great Lakes And Enbridge’s Line 5 Pipeline: Interview With Aurora Conley by Christen Corcoran; Land Tenure Insecurity And Climate Adaptation: Socio-Environmental Realities In Colombia And Implications For Integrated Environmental Rights And Participatory Policy by Brianna Castro and Christina Kuntz; People-Land Relationships On The Path To Sustainable Food Security by Malcolm Childress, Pranab Choudhury, and Jolyne Sanjak

The 2022 United National Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) COP will be the 27th convening of this group and will take place from November 6th-18th. The stakes are higher than ever as a series of recent scientific reports has shown that global climate change affecting nature, people’s lives and infrastructure everywhere. Its dangerous and pervasive impacts are increasingly evident in every region of our world. These impacts are hindering efforts to meet basic human needs and they threaten sustainable development across the globe. (IPCC 6trh report 2022) The same scientific consensus shows a growing recognition of the role of land, land tenure security and forests in climate mitigation, adaptation and resiliency goals.

Fast, transparent and just compensation of losses and restitution of rights for land and housing property in Ukraine require actions now. Incorporating several critical amendments and adopting the Law on compensation of losses is the first of such steps. Equally important are swift rebuilding of government infrastructure on the de-occupied territories and clarifying the responsibilities for managements of abandoned and destroyed property. The legitimate right holders need to be informed about how to secure their property rights and how to report any losses. These and several other steps discussed below will help to rebuild Ukraine and prevent undue tension in all sectors of Ukrainian society.

Ovejas is a small, rural town in the Sucre department of Colombia, which is situated on the northern Caribbean coast. The majority of the land in this area has historically been used for agricultural purposes and, furthermore, has experienced decades of armed conflict, illicit crop cultivation, tenure insecurity, and forced displacement. Today, Ovejas and other rural areas in the region are moving towards a post-conflict context via various initiatives including the promotion of licit agribusiness models in addition to the formalization of land parcels.

In the recently published Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development, edited by Margaret B. Holland, Yuta J. Masuda, and Brian E. Robinson, a diverse range of contributing authors, including Malcolm Childress, Moustapha Diop and Christina Kuntz, provide a unique disciplinary, sectoral and topical perspective

The work to shut down Line 5 to protect the Great Lakes and the climate continues despite spreading misinformation about the need for the pipeline. On July 28 join communities and stakeholders for this special virtual event, The Latest on Line 5: Key Pathways to Protect the Great Lakes from an Oil Spill Disaster.

In this new episode of the LandUP! podcast, we unpack the linkages between land tenure and land degradation. We spoke to Professor of Geography Dr. Jon Unruh, Country Program Manager Kader Baba and Researcher Anne Hennings about the emerging nexus between land tenure and Land Degradation Neutrality.

GLA’s Victor Endo- “Planificando la vivienda del futuro” del Programa de intercambio de conocimiento Vivienda Sostenible Para Todos, del Banco Mundial.