India, Feb. 26 -- Most land has no documented ownership and uncertainties are rising, according to FAO, ILC and CIRAD Rome - While progress has been achieved in land tenure and governance over the past 20 years, the ownership, tenure or use rights of only 35 percent of the world's land is formally documented, according to the Status of Land Tenure and Governance, a new report released today.
Some 1.1 billion people, almost one in four of all adults, consider it likely they could lose the rights to some or all of their land and housing within the next five years, and this number has risen notably in the past few years, highlighted the report, produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International La...