Land Matters Media Scan – 4 December 2017

USAID

1. NETRIGHT Charts New Course In Agric Development And Gender – mentions USAID’s Feed the Future Initiative in Ghana (11/25/17)
   Source: Modern Ghana
2. Coming to Life (11/27/17)
   Source: USAID Colombia LRDP
3. Proposed Tanzanian Land Policy addresses some shortcomings – mentions USAID’s Mobile Application to Support Tenure Project in Tanzania (11/14/17)
   Source: Danish Institute for International Studies
   Related report: Of Local People and Investors: The Dynamics of Land Rights Configuration in Tanzania
4. Building Peace in the Diamond Mining Areas of the Central African Republic
   (11/21/17)
   Source: USAID PRADD II: CAR
5. The Business Case for Land Rights: You Asked, We Answered (11/16/17)
   Source: USAID LandLinks
6. IAEG-SDGs Upgrade Indicator 1.4.2 to Tier II Status (11/20/17)
   Source: USAID LandLinks
7. USAID Land Champion: Silvia Petrova (11/28/17)
   Source: USAID LandLinks

Reports and Publications

1. Key Considerations for Land Tenure Policies that Affect Youth (11/17/17)
   Source: Chemonics

Upcoming Events

1. Global Landscapes Forum: Bonn 2017 (12/19-20/17)
   Source: GLF

Global

1. Eight Practical Blockchain Use Cases for International Development (11/27/17)
   Source: ICTworks
2. Moving the Needle Forward on Land Rights in the Sustainable Development Goals – Written by Tim Hanstad (11/20/17)
   Source: Land Portal
3. With Reclassification, SDG Indicator 1.4.2 Has Made it to the Starting Gate: Collaboration is Key to Finishing the Race (11/30/17)
   Source: Land Portal
4. A Jedi Approach for Companies to Manage Grievances and Land-Related Risk (11/28/17)
   Source: Landesa
5. Can agroforestry propel climate commitments? Interview with Peter Minang (11/16/17)
   Source: Mongabay
6. Four Bottom-up Solutions to Strengthen Land Rights in Emerging Markets (11/20/17)
   Source: Next Billion
7. Natural disasters are in 3D – and the rights that protect against them should be as well (11/21/17)
   Source: The World Bank

Indigenous Peoples

1. Indonesian president recognizes land rights of nine more indigenous groups (11/12/17)
   Source: Mongabay
2. Malaysia: Sarawak’s Penan mapping their way to land rights recognition (11/20/17)
   Source: The Malaysian Insight
3. Peru: Indigenous leaders halt protests after Peru agrees to meet their demands (11/16/17)
   Source: Oxfam

Africa

1. Drones are taking to the skies above Africa to map land ownership (11/27/17)
   Source: Sunday Times
2. Calls to end Africa’s ‘horrific’ land deals after Indian firm’s fallout (11/28/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
3. Ivory Coast May Allow Cocoa Farms in Some Protected Forests (11/16/17)
   Source: Bloomberg
4. Ethiopia: Empowering Women in Ethiopia’s Rural Communities (11/14/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
5. Sierra Leone News: Land tenure pledge developed (11/15/17)
   Source: Awoko
6. Tanzania to go digital on land management systems to avoid corruption (11/25/17)
   Source: Xinhua Net
7. Uganda: Naked force meets naked resistance in northern Uganda land conflict (11/24/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
8. Zimbabwe: Land reform is a Zimbabwe success story – it will be the basis for economic recovery under Mnangagwa (11/29/17)
   Source: The Conversation

Americas

1. Colombia: In post-conflict Colombia, land-rights and funding for peacebuilding face off (11/22/17)
   Source: The Christian Science Monitor
2. Colombian rural women are building peace (11/16/17)
   Source: The World Bank
3. As Mexico Builds Green Airport of the Future, Age-Old Mistakes Loom (11/18/17)
   Source: The New York Times

Asia

1. Cambodia: Life returns to exploited land (11/10/17)
   Source: Khmer Times
2. India: Ethical data use needed as India embraces blockchain for land records (11/28/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation