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…
As seen on Nature The Peruvian Amazon is an important arena in global efforts to promote sustainable logging in the tropics. Despite recent efforts to…
As seen on Forest Trends About the Conference Just months before Lima hosts over 190 countries to advance international climate negotiations at COP 20, Katoomba…
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 in the New York Times Re “Losing ground in the Amazon” (April 16): Your editorial draws welcome attention to the sudden jump in…
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…
Open Working Group urged to consider land rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities as indicators of global progress Washington, D.C. (17 April, 2014)—A new…
Despite headway in addressing land rights violations made in recent years, Stora Enso has yet to fully ensure legality of all lands acquired in the…
As seen on Reuters BEIJING/LONDON, Apr 11 (Reuters) – Chinese owners of clean energy projects say European firms have since 2011 defaulted on potentially hundreds…
As seen on Plustv Belize Maya Communities Win Judgment in Court On Thursday morning in Belize City, the Maya of southern Toledo descended on the…
Although Indigenous Peoples and local communities have legal ownership of over 33 percent of Latin America’s forests, overlapping claims to their lands continue. In an…
As seen on Reuters Government officials in forest-rich developing countries are more concerned about their nation being treated fairly in international negotiations on REDD+ than about…
AMPB: Pueblos indígenas y comunidades rurales defendiendo derechos territoriales
As seen on Study warns of possible REDD+ land grab
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…
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…
As seen on the The Right to Inherit Isn’t Working for Indian Women” Says U.N. Study
Survey of 1,400 rural women in three states finds that fundamental reforms are needed SEATTLE – The findings of a survey released today from Landesa and UN…
As seen on WEDO supports Third Regional Workshop on Gender” Climate Change” Land and Forest Tenures in Africa
As seen on All Africa In commemoration of International Women's Day” 8 March” the third regional workshop on gender” climate change” and land and forest tenures…
Photo: Dan Klotz During a Sign now and show her that the entire world is watching her actions at home. Together” we can hold her accountable to…
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…
Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques: Intercambio de experiencias reunirá a mujeres productoras de Centroamérica