The conference will bring together a diverse range of participants, including young Indigenous leaders, practitioners, and surveyors. To make the conference inclusive and truly collaborative, we will co-organize the event with youth organizations, ensuring their perspectives, priorities, and voices directly shape both the agenda and the outcomes.

Wildland fire managers, scientists and the public benefit from timely and easy to access information about current fire activity to provide information about potential risks and support suppression activities. NASA provides multiple sources of time sensitive satellite imagery and derived data products within the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS).

A global conversation about the politics of land and resource struggles in an era of global and local crises

7-9 October 2025
University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

PLAAS is pleased to announce our upcoming international conference on Land, Life and Society.

We are pleased to invite you to the launch of a new study, entitled “Collective Tenure Rights and Climate Action in sub-Saharan Africa”, jointly produced by FAO and the Global Land Alliance.

This training will provide an overview of spectral indices for land and aquatic applications as they are calculated with a QGIS platform. Specifically, this training will begin with an introduction to the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), along with its calculation, uses, and applications in diverse thematic areas (agriculture, disasters, etc.).

29 January, 2025, 1-2.30pm GMT, Online, via Zoom

WEDNESDAY 19 Feb 2025 (13:30 - 15:00 CET)

The Loss and Damage Fund, established at COP28, represents a crucial step toward addressing the impacts of climate change, especially for Indigenous Peoples. This webinar explored the operationalization of the fund and examined its practical and conceptual implications.

The Land Portal was proud to serve as a media partner for the Third Arab Land Conference, continuing our role from the first and second editions. Through this partnership, we worked to amplify and capture the knowledge generated during the conference and bring it to broader audiences.

The Conference encompassed the Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16), the Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and the Fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Ge