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April 2020
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We are pleased to share with you news and updates from the Global Land Tool Network.
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VIDEO: Improving Tenure Security of Smallholder Farmers in select areas in the Philippines
From our Blog
Global Land Outlook: UNCCD commissions working papers and policy briefs on land restoration [Link]
Second issue of UN-Habitat in Palestine’s ‘Land Issues in the West Bank’ newsletter published [Link]
Featured Publications
UN-Habitat COVID-19 Response Plan
- Over 1,430 cities in 210 countries are affected by Covid-19
- 1 billion people live in informal settlements and slums in overcrowded and inadequate housing
- 2.4 billion people lack adequate access to safe water and sanitation

UN-Habitat launched a COVID-19 Response Plan covering 64 countries.
UN-Habitat needs USD 72 million to protect those living in slums & informal settlements from #COVID19.  [Link]
Best of the Web
Analysis: China's New Land Policy to Improve Provincial Govt Fiscal, Economic Performance [Link]
New database wrangles data on land rights projects around the globe [Link]
Secure Land Rights Critical for Asia’s Rural Communities Threatened by COVID-19 [Link]
Brazil: Women and their families are celebrating in Jacaré, Pernambuco - for the right to remain on the land they have lived for over 50 years. [Link]
Mozambique: Is Nationalisation and State Ownership of Land a Solution? the Mozambique Experience [Link]
Zimbabwe: Chiredzi Villagers Face Home Displacements for Grass Farming By Chinese Investor [Link]
Uganda: Land Grabbing On the Rise During Lockdown  [Link]
Sudan: Anti-Graft Authority Seizes 390 Plots of Prime Khartoum Real Estate [Link]
Indonesia: Land conflicts escalate with spread of COVID-19 [Link]
Brazil: Land seizures and COVID-19: the twin threats to Brazil’s indigenous peoples [Link]
Opportunities
UN-HABITAT: Urban Planner – Housing, Land and Property Challenges faced in Syria by Refugees currently living in Lebanon [Link]
UNCCD: Consultant to produce a GLO working paper and policy brief on youth and land restoration [Link]
UNCCD: Consultant to produce a GLO working paper and policy brief on the urban-rural interface and land restoration [Link]
UNCCD: Consultant to produce a GLO working paper and policy brief on tenure, resource rights and land restoration [Link]
UNCCD: Consultant to produce a GLO working paper and policy brief on perverse incentives and land restoration [Link]
UNCCD: Consultant to produce a GLO working paper and policy brief on gender and land restoration [Link]
UNCCD: Consultant to produce a GLO working paper and policy brief on food system resilience and land restoration [Link]
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