Excerpt from a feature on China Radio International (click for audio) In order to acquire more land for farming” China once experienced severe deforestation. However”…
As seen in The Bengal Post Sujoy Dhar June 19″ 2012 In the thick Sal forest of Mayurbhanj district in Odisha” 50-year-old Bishnu Paw is…
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…
Reuters Alert News: Climate Conversations – 6 ways to secure land rights for sustainable development
As seen on Alert News June 11″ 2012 By Andy White and RRI Partners Women gather forest products in Budhikhamari village” in Baripada in India’s…
As seen on Thaindian News May 30″ 2012 New Delhi” (IANS) Millions of forest people in tropical nations” including India” have won unprecedented legal rights…
As seen on New Kerala New Delhi” May 30 : Millions of forest people in tropical nations” including India” have won unprecedented legal rights to…
As seen on The Washington Post By Elaine Kurtenbach Associated Press / May 30″ 2012 SHANGHAI — Ensuring that forest dwellers have rights over…
As seen on The Republic ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press May 30″ 2012 SHANGHAI — Ensuring that forest dwellers have rights over their land is vital…
As seen on www.indiablooms.comWashington” May 30 (IBNS) New research released by the non-profit group Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) on Wednesday shows that hundreds of…
RRI sponsored a trip to Budhikhamari” Orissa” India for journalists interested in India's tenure reform process earlier this month (May 2012). For details on the…
As seen on Newstrack IndiaNew Delhi” May 30 (IANS) Millions of forest people in tropical nations” including India” have won unprecedented legal rights to land…
As posted on Mongabay.com on May 16″ 2012 Despite a global trend towards urbanization some 1.2-1.7 billion people worldwide remain primarily dependent on forests for…
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s Committee on World Food Security approved the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land”…
Marking the one year anniversary of the involuntary displacement of the communities of Polochic Valley” 2″500 peasants and indigenous residents of Alta Verapaz” Guatemala” began a march…
In a new report by Transparency International”
As written by Kunal Purohit for the Hindustan Times on 16 March 2011. Al least 10″000 tribals from across the state” many barefoot” marched from…
The End of the Hinterland: Forests” Conflict and Climate Change” RRI's first annual report on the global state of forests and tenure” continues to garner…
Redressing ‘historical injustice’ through the Indian Forest Rights Act 2006 A Historical Institutional analysis of contemporary forest rights reform The Reserach Programme Consortium for Improving…
Since the implementation of India's Forest Rights Act (FRA) one year ago” RRI collaborator Kalpavriksh has been tracking the social and ecological impacts of FRA…
Somini Sengupta reports on the human impact of India’s burgeoning wildlife preserves in an article from the April 16th edition of The New York Times….