The Sustainable Development Goals aspire to “leave no one behind.” If the international community is to succeed in this aim, it must address the grinding poverty, hunger, and despair that still plague many of the world’s forests and rural areas.
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Local law and collaboration across sectors key to fire and haze prevention
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Building a regional roadmap: Africa’s land commissions come together to tackle tenure insecurity
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Engaging with indigenous people benefits business, environment – U.N. expert
Governments too often sidestep indigenous people when approving new infrastructure projects on their land, ignoring the potential for sustainable economic growth and environmentally-friendly development, a U.N. expert said on Tuesday.
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India’s tribals at loggerheads with new tree-planting policy, say campaigners
Millions of tribal people in India are being denied their rights to forest land and resources and forced from their ancestral settlements due to a recently enacted law promoting an increase in tree cover, an indigenous rights group said on Wednesday.
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