Have you ever wondered why people experiencing poverty in rural areas of the Global South tend to have insecure land tenure? If you have, you may have rightly concluded that the greed of powerful actors and colonialism are an important part of the story. But this barely begins to describe the forces that have strengthened and weakened tenure security across time for those with little voice and power.
Women living in forest communities play a crucial role in climate change mitigation and economic development in low- and middle-income countries.
We asked women from across Africa what secure land rights mean for them, their communities, and their countries. Here’s what they had to say:
2013 saw a lot of serious progress in forest tenure reform: legal judgments that upheld the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities; successful local…
The crisis of insecure land rights–most immediately felt by the millions of Indigenous Peoples and other local communities who risk losing their lands and livelihoods–profoundly…
The African Women's Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF) in close collaboration with RRI” the Ford Foundation” and The Forest Peoples' Programme” recently organized…
RRI is pleased to share the introductory chapter of Forest Tenure Reform: New Resource Rights for Forest based Communities?” published in the Journal of Conservation and Society…
As seen on See original article.
As posted on The Guardian on February 9″ 2012
Since Jan. 31.” the indigenous Ngäbe Bugle peoples of Panama have been protesting the Panamanian government’s move to weaken national mining laws by removing a…
As posted by Africa Business on February 8, 2012. In light of Sime Darby’s February 3rd claims, the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) has verified…
Cambodia: The Last Chance In Kampong Thom province” local communities have only recently been granted formal rights to manage their forests. Many of the forests…
Subregional Workshop – Ownership and Access Rights in Decentralized Natural Resources Management in the Sahel RRI” Intercooperation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation…
Rights and Resources Initiative” International Tropical Timber Organization and the Cameroon Ministry of Forests and Wildlife are pleased to announce the international conference Forest Tenure”…
In films recently released in Jakarta and London” Indonesian villagersin Papua helped expose illegal logging and forest devastation by usingdigital and video cameras to record…
China Daily published the following article today” highlighting theresponsibility of Western markets in the loss of forest cover intropical areas. “Western consumption 'causes forest shrinkage'…
The following article” found on amazonia.org” sums up topics discussed at a seminar on Peoples of the Forest in the Amazon. The main innovation is…
Mumbai” India” is struggling to prevent its growing population of 17million from infringing on the world's largest urban forest. Thisthreatens the biodiversity of the forest…
In the last week a controversy has emerged in Uganda over the governmental project to turn over part of the Mabira Central Reserve Forest to…
ADDIS ABABA” March 20 – Participatory forest management is proving a viable approach in the protection and maintenance of the environment in a country that…