Many of the solutions to the world’s problems lie right before us, in how land is governed and managed. Sustainable and equitable land use elevates ecosystems and communities. It builds democracy, justice, sustainability and resilience.
Our 2022-2030 Strategy focuses on three major shifts: shifting power back to people, shifting attention to land rights and shifting focus on data-driven advocacy for accountability.
Across the world, our members are organising and uniting for land rights. These are their stories, their triumphs. Learn, share and be inspired by them!
Many of the solutions to the world’s problems lie right before us, in how land is governed and managed. Sustainable and equitable land use elevates ecosystems and communities. It builds democracy, justice, sustainability and resilience.
Our 2022-2030 Strategy focuses on three major shifts: shifting power back to people, shifting attention to land rights and shifting focus on data-driven advocacy for accountability.
Across the world, our members are organising and uniting for land rights. These are their stories, their triumphs. Learn, share and be inspired by them!
In November 1995, over one thousand representatives of civil society, governments, and multilateral institutions came together in Brussels, Belgium for a Conference on Hunger and Poverty. The conference participants, recognising the importance of equitable access to land for rural development, resolved to create an alliance of civil society and intergovernmental agencies:
The Popular Coalition to Eradicate Hunger and Poverty.
The conference called for urgent action to empower the rural poor by increasing their access to productive assets, especially land, water and common-property resources, and by strengthening their participation in decision-making processes at local, national, regional and international levels. In 2003, the Popular Coalition to Eradicate Hunger and Poverty was renamed and became:
2003 - Today
The International Land Coalition (ILC)
This name recognises our strategic focus on land access issues. Since, we have grown to a coalition of nearly 300 organisations. The shared vision of our members is that secure and equitable access to land – and control over land – reduces poverty and contributes to identity, dignity, and inclusion. ILC strives to overcome any practices in its operations or those of its members that perpetuate the marginalisation of any section of society, and in particular of women.