International Land Coalition

19/10/2026

🌿 What gets counted gets protected!

Only 7% of the national biodiversity reports reviewed so far measured the land rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Kenya reported in full, drawing on LandMark and data collected by community organisations.

That’s why, at C*D COP17, we’re asking countries to report on community land rights in their next national reports, strengthen the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities across the Global Biodiversity Framework, and count women’s land rights.
To help them get there, we’re launching a practical guide on how to report on these rights. Countries can start with the data they already have and improve with each round of reporting!

🔗 Read more about our asks here: https://www.landcoalition.org/en/whats-at-stake/issues/climatecrisis/land-rights-cbd-cop-17/

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16/10/2026

Guess who's back! Yes, Good News Friday! 🌱

This week's stories show what happens when the people who care for the land lead the way:

-A Brazilian court orders the government to recognise the territory of the Kajkwakratxi-Tapayuna people and to publicly apologise for decades of violence.
-Four Indigenous villages in Panama's Darién forest are monitoring their territory and have recorded more than 200 species.
-Pastoral mobility is gaining ground at the UN, along with the role pastoralists play in caring for the world's rangelands.

Swipe through to read their stories 👉

🐆What good news about land and the people who care for it have you heard this week? Tell us in the comments!

15/10/2026

14/10/2026

Ten years after Women to Kilimanjaro, grassroots women look back on what has changed and what they are still calling for: land, livelihoods and a seat at the decision-making table. 🏔️

Watch their reflections from the National Rural Women’s Forum 2026 👇

12/10/2026

Nabila Al-Hashoush is a woman farmer in Jordan who has been defending farmland from expropriation for sulfate mining. She has now been arrested.

For farming communities, land is home, livelihood and food security. The National Land Coalition in Jordan is calling for transparency on the grounds for her arrest, her release if no clear legal basis exists, and full respect for her rights. It is also calling for an open dialogue that brings farmers and landowners into every decision about their land.

Pressure on farmland in Jordan is not new. Earlier this year, 76 farming families in Ghor Al-Safi and Ghor Fifa faced the loss of their land to a separate expropriation: emena.landcoalition.org/en/newsroom/76-farming-families-in-jordan-are-facing-the-loss-of-their-land

📢 Share this post and stand with Nabila. Land defenders must be free to speak up.

National Land Coalition/Jordan

07/10/2026

We've just been on the Bajo Putumayo Learning Route! 🌿 Another big milestone in the journey, together with Gobernanza Resp. de la Tierra, IBC Perú, with support from Rainforest Trust.

A delegation of 20+ people from five countries travelled to three Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon to see rights-based conservation in action, and to learn how the Reserva Comunal Bajo Putumayo Yaguas came to be. 🛶

Today we're sharing three short reflections from participants from Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador.

Stay tuned: there's so much more to tell about this incredible experience! ✨

06/10/2026

Always wanted the latest on land rights? We've got you.

Meet Land Bites, our new biweekly newsletter for everyone who believes land matters. Short, sharp, and straight to your inbox.

In this first issue:
🤖 Why AI's next frontier might be your farmland
🌍 What COP17 meant for land rights
🐑 Young pastoralists rewriting the story of mobility
…and much more.

Be part of the conversation. Subscribe here: https://mailchi.mp/landcoalition/land-bites-ai-agrarian-reform-and-156-billion-hectares

05/10/2026

Farmers from across Indonesia filled the public gallery of parliament to watch the vote. Many had spent their working lives demanding this law, and when the gavel came down, the gallery erupted. 🌾

"A movement must have the patience of peasants. We plant, we nurture, we protect, and we wait for the harvest, but we never stop fighting for it, says Dewi Kartika, Chair of KPA's National Council and former Secretary General.

Swipe for the story behind the law, and read the full interview here: https://www.landcoalition.org/en/latest/twenty-years-one-gavel-what-indonesias-agrarian-reform-law-means-and-who-made-it-happen/

02/10/2026

🍉 Every autumn, Palestinian families gather in their olive groves for the harvest, but this year many never reached their trees. On 2 October, in Beita, Jamma'in, Ni'lin and Silwan, Israeli forces and settlers blocked farmers from their groves or forced them off their land, while those on the ground kept insisting: "We're allowed to be here. You don't have an order."

Less than 10 km from Jamma'in, in the village of Farkha, Amna tends the olive trees her family has farmed for generations, and her story shows what is at stake when farmers are kept from their land. Read it in our photo essay Rooted in Resistance: https://www.landcoalition.org/en/latest/rooted-in-resistance/

We stand with the Palestinian Farmers Union and all our members in Palestine, whose full report on settler attacks is coming later this month.

Don't stop talking about Palestine, and share their stories!

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