{"id":43580,"date":"2013-03-23T17:21:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T17:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/new-reports-african-governments-giving-land-away-quickly-recognizing-land-rights-slowly\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T13:34:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:34:52","slug":"new-reports-african-governments-giving-land-away-quickly-recognizing-land-rights-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/fr\/new-reports-african-governments-giving-land-away-quickly-recognizing-land-rights-slowly\/","title":{"rendered":"New Reports: African Governments Giving Land Away Quickly, Recognizing Land Rights Slowly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Yaound\u00e9, Cameroon, March 2013<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>New RRI Analyses Released on Land-Grab Development in Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>African Governments Giving Land Away Quickly, Recognizing Land Rights Slowly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Press Release<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/doc_5788.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Reports: African Governments Giving Land Away Quickly, Recognizing Land Rights Slowly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Africa Remains a Target For Land-Grab Developments Worth Billions; Regional Dialogue in Yaound\u00e9 Focuses on the Need for Speed<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/doc_5789.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Press Release in French<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>New RRI Analyses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RRI is launching two reports exploring trends in large-scale land acquisitions and community land rights policies in West and Central Africa, at the <a href=\"\/events\/thirteenth-dialogue-on-forests-governance-and-climate-change\/\">Thirteenth RRI Regional Dialogue on Forest, Governance and Climate Change<\/a>, being held in Yaound\u00e9, Cameroon on 5 \u2013 7 March, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social and Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Africa\u2014With a Focus on West and Central Africa<\/strong><br \/>\n<em> &#8211; Michael Richards<\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 14px; list-style-type: circle; PADDING-LEFT: 20px;\">\n<li><strong>Report available in <a href=\"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/doc_57971.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">English<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/doc_5812.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">French<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Policy Brief available in <a href=\"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/doc_5796.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">English<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/doc_5813.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">French<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>R\u00e9formes de Tenure Foresti\u00e8re et Fonci\u00e8re en Afrique Centrale et de l\u2019Ouest : Une Evaluation Pr\u00e9liminaire des Avanc\u00e9es Post-Yaound\u00e9 2009<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>[Land and Forest Tenure Reforms in West and Central Africa: A Preliminary Assessment of Progress Made since the Yaound\u00e9 2009 Conference]<br \/>\n &#8211; Robinson Djeukam, Phil Ren\u00e9 Oyono and Boubacar Diarra<\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 14px; list-style-type: circle; PADDING-LEFT: 20px;\">\n<li><strong>Policy Brief available in French and English<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Media Contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:40px\">Chantal Wandja: +237 79 50 46 67\/96 61 13 30 or chantal.wandja@iucn.org<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:40px\">Jenna DiPaolo: +1 202-412-0331 or jdipaolo@rightsandresources.org<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:40px\">Dan Klotz: +1 301-280-5756 or dklotz@burnesscommunications.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:40px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/doc_5787.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Key Spokespeople Biographies<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:40px\">Video: Samuel Nguiffo of Centre for Development and Environment (CED), Cameroon on recognition and protection of community rights<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:40px\"><a href=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XmyVVoXxK4o\" target=\"_blank\">Video:<\/a> Cecile Ndjebet of Cameroon Ecology, Cameroon on community forestry and protecting community rights in Cameroon<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:40px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Press-Kit-Web-Version2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RRI Press Kit<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Less than 12% of laws recognizing community and Indigenous Peoples&rsquo; land rights in Africa are adequate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em<strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/doc_4924.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What Rights? A Comparative Analysis of Developing Countries&rsquo; National Legislation on Community and Indigenous Peoples&rsquo; Forest Tenure Rights<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/media.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/media.png\" alt=\"media\" width=\"790\" height=\"632\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/media.png 790w, https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/media-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaound\u00e9, Cameroon, March 2013 New RRI Analyses Released on Land-Grab Development in Africa African Governments Giving Land Away Quickly, Recognizing Land Rights Slowly Press Release&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 13:36:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63585,"href":"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43580\/revisions\/63585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightsandresources.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}