(P.S. I) Ground Up Land Governance Experiences
Channel: Land Portal
Date: 2021-06-25

This session will be a space for land activists to share how they are organizing grassroots land and land governance reforms to build resilience in the face of crises. These initiatives are many, from women organizing to defend their land rights in the face of gender discrimination, to land occupations led by landless and homeless people to meet their needs, and community initiatives to improve communal land governance.

The crises we face are many, from climate change, COVID-19, inequality, and instability. States are often failing to ensure access to land for those who
need it (for production and homes) and failing to secure the rights of the most vulnerable. This leaves communities organizing their own solutions.
There is much that can be shared and learnt from such grassroots experiences around the world. Some of these cases are documented through initiatives such as the International Land Coalition’s community land protection learning initiative and database of good practices, but there has not been much discussion of them. This platform will be an opportunity for those directly involved to share with others, share with communities facing
similar challenges, and share with practitioners and academics working on these issues. The sessions will be recorded so that the presentations can
be made accessible online and key lessons from it will also be written up to be shared more widely. We are lining up people with interesting
experiences to share and welcome other suggestions and volunteers willing to share from their work, actions and practices in relation to people
created land governance, and resilience in the face of crises. 

Learn more: https://landportal.org/event/2021/04/landac-conference-2021