Cadasta Welcomes Three New Staff Members

We are thrilled to welcome three new staff members to the Cadasta team: Asaf Even-Paz, Katie Pickett, and Michele MacMillan. Asaf Even-Paz joins as our new Product Manager where he will work closely with our partners and development team to identify platform needs and implement solutions. Asaf is an accomplished GeoInformation Engineer with over…

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Letter from the CEO

Dear Cadasta Community and Friends, As our days turn colder and darker in our part of the world this winter, it is a great time to think about preparing for the next season and what it will bring. During my first five months at Cadasta, we have been taking stock of who we are as an…

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My House is My Castle?

Imagine for a moment that you do not have secure rights to the house you live in. Imagine living without a title, deed, or lease to prove your claim to the place you call home. Consider what it would be like to live without any confidence that your government would enforce your claim. In fact,…

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The Green Revolution Reboot: Women’s Land Rights

Few people dispute the transformational impact of the “green revolution” in agriculture that eradicated famine in countries from Mexico to India just over 50 years ago. But as gains in agricultural production have again begun to slow, there are calls for a second green revolution to meet the growing food security needs of the planet. Proponents…

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Bridging Gaps to Advance Land Rights

A quote by author and radio host Earl Nightingale sums up Cadasta’s current challenge perfectly: “Your p roblem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.” Our goal at Cadasta is to be the leading provider of technical tools and services to support…

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Story Maps: Harnessing the Power of Maps to Tell Your Story

Of the many exciting features and updates associated with Cadasta’s new partnership with Esri, Story Maps stands out. Story Maps is an Esri-supported application that lets you combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content to create compelling, user-friendly web apps. The program makes it easy to harness the power of…

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Cadasta and Esri Partner to Put Land Rights on the Map

Esri, the global market leader in GIS, was founded as Environmental Systems Research Institute in 1969.  While land use consulting was at its core, the company has since grown and has a much broader vision to solve some of the world’s most difficult challenges. It does so through a commitment to science, sustainability, community, education,…

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Introducing Cadasta 2.0: An Esri-Supported Platform for Improved Land and Resource Rights Documentation

Since our founding, Cadasta has focusing on being the leading provider of technical tools and services to support the documentation of land and resource rights to build stronger, more sustainable communities. By making it easier to efficiently document, store, manage, and share land and resource rights information, we aim to build a world where even…

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Mapping for Thought: Establishing Secure Land Tenure for Irrigation Schemes in South Kivu, DRC

Through the project "Maji Ya Amani", Water for Peace in Swahili, ZOA International intends to revive an existing irrigation scheme created in the nineteen fifties (1950’s) in Luberizi, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is acknowledged that improving the land through irrigation will result in an increase in land value and…

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Surveying and Mapping with Your Smartphone

When we interviewed Professor Thomas Kersten back in 2014, he predicted that the smartphone would become a valuable surveying instrument within just a couple of years – and he was not far wrong! Thanks to the rapid pace of technical advancement, smartphone photogrammetry now enables us to capture reality in 3D. Some smartphones come with…

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