Welcome to the Community Land Rights blog, featuring notes and insights from experts and organizations working on community land and resource rights across the world.
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Rights to more than half of Liberia’s land have been dealt away to private interests by the national government
Source: Paul De Wit, April 2012, Land Commission of Liberia. Land Rights, Private Use Permits & Forest Communities, EU Project FED/2011/270957
Liz Alden Wily: Interlaken – a watershed?
Helping rural communities in agrarian economies to secure their community lands as rightfully their property is not new. Individuals and agencies have been working on this since the 1970s, usually in isolation and against the mainstream. By the 1980s successes…
Forest cover in Myanmar has plummeted, from 45% of the land in 1990 to under 20% in 2010
Source: Community Forestry in Myanmar: Progress & Potentials
Andrew Davis: Community Rights in Panama and Beyond: Lessons from Central America
In April of 2013, PRISMA team members and international collaborator Alba Sud had the privilege of visiting several indigenous territories in Panama, including the Embera Wounaan Comarca (indigenous territory). The Embera People migrated from the Colombian Choco region in the…
It costs up to $20-30 million when a community protest closes a mining operation for a week
Source: John Ruggie of Harvard University and the U.N.’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights
When resource deals ignore land rights, financial risks include skyrocketing operating costs that can close operations
Source: http://bit.ly/18XWBoG
Dr. Tint Lwin Thaung: The Way Forward: Walking the Talk, With the Local People
The objectives of the Interlaken conference this year are critical in identifying concrete steps for all the stakeholders vying for community land and resources. These steps forward should be based in strong and secure rights, good governance, and fair benefits for the local…
David Deng: Securing Community Land Rights in South Sudan
South Sudan is home to approximately 65 ethnic groups whose territories span the entire region. There is no terra nullius, or "no man's land," in South Sudan. Communities own almost all the land in the country, in the sense that…
Fernanda Almeida: Why I will be in Interlaken
A few years ago, after observing the struggle of poor Brazilians all over the Northeast of the country I took a decision – I would work to promote the conservation of nature while at the same time improving the livelihoods…
Welcome to the Community Land Rights Blog!
The Community Land Rights (CLR) Blog was launched in the wake of the International Conference on Scaling-Up Strategies to Secure Community Land and Resource Rights, held on September 19-20 in Interlaken, Switzerland. Since then, we have featured notes and insights about…
