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Dear friend,
In a typical year, today would mark the close of the World Bank Land and Poverty Conference, an annual gathering of more than 1,000 land and property rights researchers, funders, implementers and activists. We’ve missed the last two years of the World Bank conference (OK, we’ve mostly missed the receptions). With these postponements, we’ve also missed learning about groundbreaking research coming out of the land space.
This digest samples some of the most interesting land and housing rights research and writing from 2020 and 2021. It’s presented in TL;DR format -- an American slang expression that stands for “too long, didn’t read.” Click on the thumbnails to catch up on the last year’s happenings in the time it takes to drink your morning coffee. Or watch the video at the bottom, featuring Thomson Reuters Foundation Property Rights Editor Zoe Tabary discussing the biggest land stories of the last year.
Do you find this digest useful? Want us to include other research you’ve found interesting? Respond with your reactions.
Yuliya
Reports
Is climate change really driving pastoralist conflict in the Sahel?
Unpacking India’s land registry upgrades
Why Men and women experience different types of tenure insecurity, and why that matters
Linking land records to cash assistance: a case from India
How over-taxing is drowning America’s poorest homeowners
A new paradigm for biodiversity
What does it look like when women’s rights to own collective land are secure?
Can who owns the land accelerate deforestation?
Amid a planting frenzy, researchers find that nature captures carbon best.
Blogs and Articles
Youth with drones are putting Nigeria’s slums on the map
Access to land, resources, and power -- not ethnic hatred --may be fueling Ethiopia’s bitter conflict
Can spatial analysis revolutionize the Catholic Church?
THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION’S ZOE TABARY,
ON LAST YEAR’S BIGGEST LAND STORIES
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