This week, leaders from governments, businesses, philanthropy, and civil society are convening in New York City for Climate Week NYC 2025, one of the world’s largest annual gatherings dedicated to advancing climate action. With climate impacts accelerating, from biodiversity loss to land degradation and displacement, the conversations happening in New York are more urgent than…

Announced at the Path2Scale event during Climate Week NYC 2025 the newly released State of Funding for Tenure Rights report delivers an urgent message: while international funding for Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples (IPs, LCs, and ADPs) has grown since the landmark COP26 Forest Tenure Pledge, it still represents less than one percent…

As we celebrate 10 years of Cadasta, we’re looking back at 2017, a milestone year when our work truly took off: iTC and Cadasta are working together to map and document community resources in rural areas of Mozambique and complementing the ongoing DUAT official process. These efforts would allow communities to better manage and plan…

10:00 AM EST | 4:00 PM CET Tuesday, September 16, 2025 Click here to Register Speaker Biographies As part of Cadasta’s Mapping Change: Local Action, Global Impact webinar, we are honored to feature leaders from our partner organizations who are advancing land and resource rights at the community level. Their work demonstrates how locally…

A medida que Cadasta celebra 10 años impulsando los derechos a la tierra y a los recursos, continuamos nuestra serie de seminarios web Mapping Change destacando cómo los esfuerzos de cartografía local contribuyen a los objetivos globales de biodiversidad y clima. Martes, 16 de septiembre de 2025 10:00 AM (EST) | 4:00 PM (CET) …

As Cadasta marks 10 years of advancing land and resource rights, we continue our Mapping Change webinar series by highlighting how local mapping efforts contribute to global biodiversity and climate goals.  Tuesday, September 16, 2025 10:00 AM (EST) | 4:00 PM (CET) Register today  This next installment will spotlight the work of two of Cadasta’s…

Cadasta is pleased to announce the appointment of three distinguished leaders—María Pía Hernández Palacios, Ana Teresa Fuzzo de Lima, and Cristina Coc—to its Board of Directors. Each bring extensive expertise in environmental governance, climate action, and rights-based approaches that will strengthen Cadasta’s mission to secure land and resource rights worldwide. María Pía Hernández Palacios is…

In much of Uganda, land is more than a place to live or farm, it is the foundation for livelihoods, community identity, and future opportunity. For the majority of Ugandans, that land is held under customary tenure, a system rooted in tradition and recognized under national law. Over the past decade, Certificates of Customary Ownership…

Today, on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we celebrate by honoring the resilience, knowledge, and cultural richness of Indigenous communities around the world. We also reaffirm our commitment to supporting and documenting their rights to their land and resources. At Cadasta, we reaffirm our belief that secure land rights are foundational to…

Amy Coughenour Betancourt President and CEO, Cadasta Foundation This year marks a significant milestone at Cadasta–ten years of putting people and their land on the map. In 2015, Cadasta was founded with a bold vision: to build a transformative global ecosystem of partners, technology, and data to protect land and property rights and address the…