Blogs

2019

• The IPCC Calls for Securing Community Land Rights to Fight Climate Change (8 August 2019)
• Land Matters: How Securing Community Land Rights Can Slow Climate Change and Accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals (24 January 2019)

2018

• Safeguarding the Carbon Stored in Indigenous and Community Lands is Essential to Meeting Climate Goals (13 September 2018)
• As Indigenous Groups Wait Decades for Land Titles, Companies Are Acquiring Their Territories (11 July 2018)
• A New Era of Land Struggle on the Horizon - Holding Governments to their Commitments to Collective Tenure (1 June 2018)

2017

• 5 Maps Show How Important Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are to the Environment (20 December 2017)
• A land rights storm brewing in Barbuda? (17 October 2017)
• Land Ruling Threatens Brazil's Indigenous Peoples and Climate Commitments (11 September 2017)
• What happens to community lands a millennium on? A look at Europe. (4 August 2017)
• Big data is all around. How do we harness it to drive the change we need? (17 April 2017)
• Is This My Land? (14 April 2017)

• By the Numbers: Indigenous and Community Land Rights (20 March 2017)

2016

• Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are the World’s Secret Weapon in Curbing Climate Change (10 November 2016)

• Kenya Passes Long Awaited Law Enabling Communities to Secure Formal Recognition of their Land Rights (12 October 2016)
• The Need for Transparency in Land Data (15 September 2016)

• Communities and water rights: How are they faring? (31 August 2016)

• Indigenous Land Rights: How Far Have We Come and How Far Do We Have to Go? (9 August 2016)

• Strengthening Indigenous Land Rights: 3 Challenges to “Free, Prior and Informed Consent” (27 July 2016)

• 3 Reasons Why Community Land Rights Are Not Legally Secure in Many Countries (8 June 2016)

• 4 Big Reasons Why Land Rights Matter (24 May 2016)

• A New Global Goal: Doubling Community and Indigenous Land by 2020 (2 March 2016)

2015

• LandMark Puts Indigenous Peoples and Other Communities on the Global Map (29 December 2015)

• LandMark: Protecting Indigenous and Community Lands by Making Them Visible (10 November 2015)

Media

Top news stories featuring LandMark:

• Climate mitigation has an ally in need of recognition and land rights: indigenous peoples in tropical countries (10 September 2018)
• Indigenous peoples and local communities vital to the global environment (25 January 2018)
• A land rights storm brewing in Barbuda (17 October 2017)

• African court’s landmark ruling gives hope to rural people across the continent (19 June 2017)

• Kenya passes long awaited law enabling communities to secure formal recognition of their land rights (12 October 2016)
• LandMark: The Global Platform of Indigenous and Community Lands (15 February 2016)
• LandMark puts indigenous peoples and other communities on the global map (14 December 2015)
• Philippines indigenous peoples get interactive map to help secure land rights (11 November 2015)

• Interactive Map Can Help Indigenous Peoples Secure Land Rights (19 November 2015)

• First-of-its-kind mapping platform could help protect land held by Indigenous communities (13 November 2015)
• Can a New Global Map Protect Indigenous Lands? (12 November 2015)