Farmer in Colombia

Despite the importance of property rights, we don’t actually know how many people in the world feel they lack secure, equitable access to land and housing and where these problems are concentrated. Secure property rights are fundamental to a host of food security, territorial governance, financial inclusion, climate change, and health outcomes, as reflected in several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): see more here.

PRIndex, the Global Property Rights Index, is a collaborative initiative between Global Land Alliance and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) that developed and rolled out the first global measurement of peoples’ perceptions of their property rights. PRIndex has a global and national-level baseline of perceptions of land tenure security, which provides the grounding for securing the property rights of billions who currently live in 140 countries worldwide. In Latin America and the Caribbean, PRIndex has information of 18 countries (Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina)

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