Cadasta Foundation has launched its new Global Land Rights Challenge Fund to help partners better leverage Cadasta’s innovative tools and services to document land and resource rights worldwide.Read More

Through the project “Maji Ya Amani”, Water for Peace in Swahili, ZOA International intends to revive an existing irrigation scheme created in the nineteen fifties (1950’s) in Luberizi, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is acknowledged that improving the land through irrigation will result in an increase in land value and potential speculation,...Read More

The History of Creating Paper Maps Surveying has played a vital role in state building and the development of orderly human societies since the earliest written records. Paper maps and surveys have improved government administration, navigation, and our understanding of property boundaries and rights. With the earliest known evidence of surveying dating back to Ancient...Read More

Summary: From determining seed and fertilizer needs, to service delivery and tax planning, area calculations play a critical role in a number of key land administration processes. Given their significance to land and resource management, Cadasta recently released an automatic area calculation feature. This feature allows Cadasta platform users to easily upload or draw polygons,...Read More

Cadasta recently released a Quantum Geographic Information System (QGIS) plugin that enables partners to edit projects and records and as well as import existing data into the platform. One of the QGIS features we are most excited about is the “Atlas Preview” Print Composer. This feature allows users to automatically create and print dynamic reports...Read More