Contested ownership of rural, forest, and dryland areas directly affects the livelihoods of over two billion people
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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…
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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…
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…
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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,…