Source: Paul De Wit, April 2012, Land Commission of Liberia. Land Rights, Private Use Permits & Forest Communities, EU Project FED/2011/270957
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…
Source: Community Forestry in Myanmar: Progress & Potentials
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…
Source: John Ruggie of Harvard University and the U.N.’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights
Source: http://bit.ly/18XWBoG
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…
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…
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…
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…
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