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What Climate Week 2026 Reinforced About Land Rights and Community Leadership

By Amy Coughenour Betancourt, CEO, Cadasta I returned from Climate Week NYC with renewed conviction that progress on climate depends on communities having the rights, resources, and authority to shape their own futures. Across the conversations our Cadasta team joined, the questions were practical: Who controls funding? What is holding up recognition of land rights?…

Building Better Foundations for Humanitarian Action

How stronger data systems are helping families rebuild safer homes and more secure futures When disaster strikes, humanitarian organizations move quickly to meet immediate needs, providing shelter, food, water, and emergency assistance. But humanitarian work doesn’t end when the crisis passes. For families rebuilding their lives, recovery is measured not only by repairing homes,…

How Place-Based Data Is Helping Women Farmers Thrive

Celebrating the International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026 Women farmers are at the heart of global food systems. They cultivate crops, care for livestock, steward natural resources, and feed their families and communities. Yet millions continue to face insecure rights to the land they farm. The International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026 recognizes…

From Policy to Practice: Cadasta and the Jacobs Futura Foundation Partner to Advance Community Land Rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

By Cadasta Staff The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is entering a pivotal moment for community land rights. In July 2025, the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed into law new land use planning legislation,Law No. 25/045. This new law formally recognizes customary land rights within the country’s land use planning…

Participatory Mapping as an Impartial Intermediary

By Cadasta Staff Typical conflict resolution strategies often require a mediator. For Indigenous land-related conflicts and boundary validations, participatory mapping and technology can serve that role. Participatory mapping is a community-led process in which local people lead the creation of maps that combine spatial knowledge and lived experience. It is a locally led process, often…

From Recognition to Resilience: Land Rights and Sustainable Futures in Gujarat’s Forests

By: Leah Kellenberger Across 12 countries, Cadasta’s Strengthening Land and Forest Rights (SLFR) Program, funded by the UK International Development, from the UK government, is partnering with 13 organizations to advance secure land and forest rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities. This program aims to secure management or ownership rights for forest-dwelling communities, as…

Webinar: Geospatial Tools, Stronger Land Rights: Insights from Cadasta and Esri, Inc.

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By Cadasta Staff Around the world, millions of people live and work on land that is not formally documented in systems that governments can easily recognize or use. Community knowledge about land and resource boundaries often exists only in paper maps, hand-drawn sketches, ancestral lore, PDFs, or disconnected spreadsheets, making it difficult to validate claims,…

Why Land Rights Are Women’s Rights

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Celebrating Women's Month By Cadasta Staff True gender equality is rooted not only in social and political rights, but in something far more fundamental: land. For millions of women around the world, land is the foundation of food security, economic stability, community leadership, and environmental stewardship. Despite women’s central role in sustaining families and ecosystems,…

Aligning Policy and Practice in Kenya’s Community Land Governance

By Wambayi Wabwire The Kenya Community Land Act of 2016 (CLA) charted a clear path forward for documenting and recognizing community land rights. A decade later, Kenya is entering a critical phase in implementing the CLA. Recognizing this pivotal moment, the Kenya Land Alliance and Landesa convened a Multi-stakeholder Platform - the Ardhi Caucus, which…

Strengthening Land Governance in Mozambique: Cadasta and Lantmäteriet’s Collaborative Study

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Cadasta and Lantmäteriet, the Swedish National Mapping Agency, are proudly partnering with the National Directorate for Land and Territorial Development (Direção Nacional de Terras e Desenvolvimento Territorial), Cenacarta, ADE, and other relevant organizations to conduct a comprehensive study of the land sector in Mozambique, funded by Sida (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency). This initiative…

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