This is a selection of links leading to websites providing a broad range of resources in the form of publications, databases, news collections, or comprehensive listings of further links.
Please note that LANDac does not take responsibility for the content of the sites to which it links, nor does linking constitute an endorsement of the organization concerned.
FAO Gender and Land Rights Database
This FAO database contains country level information on social, economic, political and cultural issues related to the gender inequalities embedded in land rights. It allows to create country reports, reports on a specific topic or comparative reports.
Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab - GRAIN Blog
This blog is a source for news reports about the global rush to buy up or lease farmlands abroad. Its purpose is to serve as a searchable resource for those monitoring or researching the issue.
Global Land Tool Network - UN-HABITAT
The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)’s main objective is to contribute to poverty alleviation and the Millennium Development Goals through land reform, improved land management and security of tenure. The e-library provides access to a broad variety of material connected to the GLTN and tool development.
International Association for the Study of the Commons
IASC-COMMONS is a nonprofit Association devoted to understanding and improving institutions for the management of resources that are (or could be) held or used collectively by communities in developing or developed countries.
International Land Coalition
A global coalition of civil society organizations and intergovernmental organizations working together to promote secure and equitable access to and control over land for poor women and men through advocacy, dialogue and capacity building. The site provides access to land-related news, publications and links.
Land and Development - Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
Land policies are a focus theme of the Donor Platform in 2010. A collection of links to further reading related to land and development, including member policies and publications are accessible through the website.
Land Portal - The Gateway to Land Information
The International Land Coalition (ILC) and Landtenure.info are the originators of the Land Portal, an easy access, easy-to-use platform to share land related information, to monitor trends, and identify information gaps to promote effective and sustainable land governance. The Land Portal will in the first instance serve to aggregate existing information sources from around the web as well as facilitate the posting of information that is currently not online.
Land Rights in Africa - Oxfam
These pages present the work of Oxfam GB and its partners and allies on land rights and pro-poor land reform. The geographic focus of the material is on African countries.
Rural Poverty Portal - IFAD
The land-related pages of the site present a wealth of links to land policies and strategies, projects, organizations and publications.
LDPI Conference papers
The Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) aims to provide in-depth and systematic enquiry into the global land grab in order to have deeper, meaningful and productive debates around causes and implications.
Observatoire des formes du foncier dans le monde
France Internationale Expertise Foncière - The site presents a worldwide overview of land issues and types of land registration / governance. [in French]
Righst and resources initiative on forestry tenure, policy and market reforms
The Rights and Resources Initiative is a strategic coalition of international, regional and community organizations engaged in development, research and conservation. RRI’s Mission is to support local communities’ and indigenous peoples’ struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market and legal reforms that secure their rights to own, control and benefit from natural resources, especially land and forests.
The Rural Hub / Le Hub Rural
The Hub’s goal is to assist West and Central African stakeholders (States, Inter-governmental Organisations, Civil Society Organisations and Development Partners) to promote coherence in rural development programmes worldwide, including land-related issues. It provides access to large collections of searchable documentation, a directory of stakeholders and links to further online resources.
UNDP Governance Assessment Portal (GAP) - Land Governance
GAP provides news, tools and links to country initiatives in relation to land governance.
