Following the 2002 report Who Owns the World’s Forests?, RRI’s latest analysis From Exclusion to Ownership? Challenges and opportunities inadvancing forest tenure reform, which analyzes statutory forest tenure in the world’s most forest countries, reveals that since 2002 the area of forests under government ownership has continued to decline from 80% to 73% of the global forest estate. The area of forest land designated for use by communities and indigenous peoples has increased by 56 percent. Much of this observed change is due to progress in only a handful of countries.
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