The 2013 Forest Peoples Programme Annual Report presents activities from all areas of FPP’s work over the last year, also marking the first year with Joji…
As seen on Digital Congo 48,8% des 120 millions d’hectares des terres arables que compte la RDC sont déjà cédées aux étrangers au détriment du…
As seen on Friends of the Earth Two weeks ago, we asked Friends of the Earth members to sign a petition asking British palm oil…
As seen on The Guardian Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 500 million acres of land in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean was acquired…
As seen on REPAR Ils étaient une quarantaine, les journalistes et les communicateurs qui ont pris part à l’atelier de formation de 3 jours qui…
As seen on Camer Les «Bagyeli», ont été déplacés de leurs terres ancestrales, sans avoir été recasés. Les « Bagyeli » sont des pygmées qui…
As seen on Indian Country Today Median Network The slowdown of land rights recognition has become a global issue, nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa…
As seen on News Watch Cameroon Evicted from their ancestral land and consigned to a resettlement camp, the Bagyeli Pygmies of Bissiang situated some 30km…
As seen on the Financial Times Sir, “Congo to world: pay us $1bn to save our rainforests . . . or else” (May 20) paints a stark picture. The…
As seen on Intégration Las d’attendre le changement promis par les organisations de la société civile, certains peuples autochtones doutent de plus en plus de leur volonté…
BUEA, Cameroon (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Cameroon’s government is due to introduce legal reforms by the end of the year to redress weaknesses in its two-decade-old forestry legislation. The new forest code will better protect rainforests and the rights of indigenous communities that rely on them, officials say.
As seen on Portugal News Dados divulgados no relatório permitem concluir que 1,3 mil milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo dependem das florestas para…
Photo: Frontier Cambodia Forest via Creative Commons As seen on IIED Governments, donors and investors must bolster locally-controlled forest businesses if they wish to deliver…
As seen on Camer Des Ong de la société civile, ont organisé du 14 au 16 mai 2014, à Kribi, un atelier sur la tenure foncière…
As seen on the New Internationalist From 6 to 8 May, agribusiness corporations courted African governments at the Grow Africa Investment Forum in Abuja, Nigeria,…
As seen on All Africa The experts will learn more about Cameroon’s forests and propose better management solutions. Cameroon’s Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Philip Ngole…
As seen on The East African: Arguably, there is no other continent on the planet that has more at stake in the discussions to determine…
As seen on CIFOR: This CIFOR Occasional Paper presents research results on challenges experienced by proponents in their efforts to establish REDD+ subnational initiatives in…
Comme on le voit sur Radio Okapi La République démocratique du Congo (RDC) pourrait signer les premiers contrats de vente de crédit carbone en 2016, a…
As seen on TerraNullius Alexandre Corriveau-Bourque is a Tenure Analyst with the Rights and Resources Initiative, and one of the lead researchers of “What Future for…
As seen on Reuters YAOUNDE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Elizabeth Maimo” a 52-year-old farmer in Santa in Cameroon’s Northwest Region” has struggled since custom dictated she…
Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia – Indigenous and forest peoples today claimed unique success in keeping the world’s fast shrinking rainforests intact, proven by the fact…
As seen on All Africa Monrovia — Women from twelve of the 16 West and Central African countries who are members of the Rights and Resources…
As seen on All Africa Blayah” Town” Grand Bassa County Palm Oil concession companies are sprouting up in Liberia but the issue of land and expansion…