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Conference Day One: “Organizations are not doing enough to address the global crisis of insecure community land rights”
The International Conference on Scaling-Up Strategies to Secure Community Land and Resource Rights began on Thursday, September 19, with over 150 participants from across the world in attendance. Willi Graf, Deputy Head of Regional Cooperation, Swiss Agency for Development and…
New RRI Analysis highlights significant risks for industrial concessions when land rights are ignored
The Rights and Resources Initiative is pleased to announce the release of a new report highlighting the substantial financial risks faced by investors when key players in large scale land acquisitions ignore the rights of local communities and Indigenous Peoples.…
Contested ownership of rural, forest, and dryland areas directly affects the livelihoods of over two billion people
Source: http://bit.ly/1erXDyR
Indigenous and other forest communities manage 200 million hectares of forestland in Latin America
Source: http://bit.ly/15CSO0O
54% of global forest carbon emissions come from Asia
Source: World Resource Institute's Country GHG Emissions database
Samuel Nguiffo : Pourquoi Faut-Il Proteger Les Droits Fonciers Des Communautes ?
The following blog post has been authored in French. Please click here to read the English translation. Le monde est désormais dans une ère marquée par une compétition farouche pour l'accès à la terre et aux ressources. L'exploitation forestière, pétrolière…
Across sub-Saharan Africa, women perform half the farming work but own only 15% of the land
Source: http://bit.ly/1bnb2H8
Yurdi Yasmi: Social Justice in Asia-Pacific Region – Why are Rights so Important to Ensure Benefits for Forest-Dependent People?
A critical question After four decades of social movement and community forestry programs in the Asia-Pacific region, it is about time to ask a simple and yet critical question: will forests in the region ever provide sufficient and tangible benefits…
Anne-Sophie Gindroz: The land should feed the people first
As seen on Thomson Reuters Foundation In December 2012, Sombath Somphone was following his wife home for dinner in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, driving in a separate car. On Thadeua Road, he was pulled over by traffic police. That was…
More than 40% of the world’s oxygen is produced by rainforests
Source: http://bit.ly/1aEFmu7
When forests are cleared for biofuel, it takes decades to compensate for the emissions that result
Source: http://bit.ly/18XWIRc
Madhu Sarin: Indigenous Community Rights in India–A Critical Moment in History
During July and August this year, India witnessed a historical, first of its kind event in the country. One after the other, the gram sabhas (assemblies of adult residents) of 12 villages, predominantly of India’s vulnerable Dongaria Kondh indigenous community,…
