This report—a follow-up to our 2010 investigation on Stora Enso’s land acquisition in China, which revealed violations of forest farmers’ property rights—assesses the company’s efforts…
While governments are increasingly recognizing local ownership and control of forests, forest tenure arrangements remain in dispute or unclear in many places, including low, middle, and high income countries.
While there were many encouraging pronouncements in 2013—from courts, governments, and some of the world’s largest corporations —unfortunately, progress for community land rights on the ground remains very limited.
It is widely understood that forests throughout the world are under growing pressure as societal demands increase and diversify. If the drivers for this pressure…
In order to strengthen collective efforts to address these challenges and capitalize on current opportunities to scale up community land rights around the world, from…





