Watch an AFP TV report on Zapotec forest management in Oaxaca” Mexico here.
As written on 8 February 2011. “Rapidly-rising food prices and growing demand for all land-based commodities” like palm oil and biofuels” are driving an intensive…
As written by Rhett Butler on Mongabay.com Progress over the past 25 years in recognizing indigenous peoples’ rights to land and resources has been interrupted…
In Guatemala City on October 28″ 2010″ RRI Collaborator
On November 30th” 2010″ in a side event at the COP16 in Cancun” Mexico” the Mesoamerican Community Carbon Reservoir” MesoCarbon” was launched by the newly…
REDD: The Realities in Black and White Friends of the Earth International” November 2010 Posted on 02″ December” 2010 “The case studies in this report…
To save forests” women call for inclusion in REDD talks Adianto P. Simamora” The Jakarta Post” CANCUN” MEXICO | Wed” 12/01/2010 10:13 AM Nepalese housewife…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Agrees to Hear Case of Indigenous Peoples in Raposa Serra do Sol” Brazil Tuesday” 16 November” 2010….
As published on the website for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada website. ************************ November 12″ 2010 Today” Canada joins other countries…
The Guardian today labeling two international think tanks as fronts for palm oil plantation” wood-pulp and logging interests. The letter accuses World Growth International (WGI) of Washington and Melbourne-based…
Will the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity finally accept proposed solutions to halt biodiversity loss that also benefit forest communities? For all forest peoples” the…
Can You Imagine? : Opening remarks of the Conference on Forest Tenure and Regulatory Reforms in Asia
Opening Remarks Conference on Forest Tenure and Regulatory Reforms: Experiences” Lessons and Future Steps in Asia Delivered by Andy White” Coordinator” Rights and Resources Initiative…
Natural resources are increasingly at the center of violent and low-level conflicts.
The opening remarks of the 2010 RRI Asia Dialogue on Community Forests and Property Rights in the Context of Climate Change were delivered by H.E….
Although rainforests cover more than half of Peru” the government agency in charge of overseeing and protecting them is understaffed and ineffective” according to a…
Two weeks ago the Peruvian president vetoed a bill which would have codified parts of the UN convention on indigenous peoples” saying its passage would…
Center for Environmental Development have held consultations with indigenous communities in Cameroon regarding the impacts of climate change to the forests of Cameroon and the implications…
The Accra Caucus on Forests and Climate Change published a report this month which details an alternative vision for slowing deforestation through addressing the drivers…
The Rights and Resources Initiative congratulates Ms. Apsara Chapagain on her election as the new Chairperson of the Federation of Community Forestry Users” Nepal (FECOFUN)….
On 8 July 2009″ the Lao National Assembly passed the Investment Promotion Law” which gives foreign buyers who invest a minimum of 2.5 billion Lao…