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By Michael Igoe
Date: 03 December 2015
So far at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, renewable energy initiatives are stealing the headlines. But as negotiators comb through the details of the expected Paris climate agreement, they will confront a range of challenges — and opportunities — to keep carbon in the ground.
Proposed law may remove indigenous land rights in Brazil
BY ADRIANA BRASILEIRO
December 2nd 2015
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Maria Valdenice Nukini believes it's her duty to protect her ancestral territory in northern Brazil and raise awareness of the role indigenous communities play in protecting nature.
That's why she recently traveled 4,700 kilometers from her isolated reserve in the northern state of Acre to Rio de Janeiro to protest oil and gas exploration that may take place near her community, located on the border with Peru.
Property rights and miracle trees: Growing climate-smart agriculture in Zambia
By: Stephen Brooks
04 December 2015
Joseph Zulu never uses the term “climate-smart agriculture,” even as he proudly points out the fertilizer trees he planted between rows of crops on his field in Zambia’s eastern province. But whether he uses the term or not, Zulu is a wonderful example of how climate-smart agriculture can be incorporated into traditional farming environments.
What are the stakes of COP21 for human rights?
Press Release FIDH, 30 November 2015
COP21 will take place in Paris from 30 November to 11 December. The 147 heads of state and of government have the future of our planet in their hands. They must come up with a binding agreement that limits global warming and its dramatic impacts on human rights. FIDH reiterates loudly : while the stakes are indeed environmental they are first and foremost human.
Land conflicts distract tourism development in leading tourist parks
BY APOLINARI TAIRO, ETN TANZANIA CORRESPONDENT | DEC 01, 2015
TANZANIA (eTN) - The International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change will be hosting an Indigenous Peoples’ Pavilion in Paris to press for their recognition on land ownership and natural resource rights.
From Tanzania, the Maasai communities are pressing the Tanzanian government to recognize their land resources, most of which are allocated to national parks and wildlife reserves.
Garantir les droits communautaires aux terres et aux ressources en Afrique: guide de réforme juridique et des meilleures pratiques
FERN, the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), ClientEarth and the Centre for Environment and Development (CED)
23 Janvier, 2014
Ce guide illustre les aspects clé des lois et des droits fonciers essentiels pour garantir la propriété et la contrôle des terres et des ressources par les communautés, exprimés également par le concept de la sécurité foncière des terres et des ressources. Il explique comment identifier et créer des possibilités de réforme législative et présente des exemples de réformes ayant eu lieu dans différents pays africains.
Possible Europe, Guyana trade deal must protect land rights - activists
BY CHRIS ARSENAULT
TORONTO, Nov 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A potential trade pact between the European Union and Guyana must contain land rights protections for local residents in order to avert the possible displacement of indigenous people, activists said on Tuesday.
Rising trade in timber stemming from such a deal could improve living standards in the South American country, according to a report released by activist groups the Forest Peoples Programme and the Amerindian Peoples Association.
Water shortage fuels conflict between herders, farmers in Laikipia
By Agencies, Citizen Digital
Published on 24 November 2015
It’s a hot, windy afternoon in Kiboya village. Dusty leaves swirl around William Ekidor, his wife Martha and their two sons as they sit under an acacia tree by the Kajunge dam, queuing with their animals for water.
Farmers bodies resolve to fight forced land acquisition
By: Press Trust of India | New Delhi
Date: November 20, 2015
Representatives of various peasant unions, farmers' organisations and people's movements, under the banner of Bhumi Adhikar Andolan, today decided on a comprehensive agenda to achieve land rights and fight forced land acquisition, agrarian crisis and fascist politics.
Peru’s lawmakers continue to block titling for Indigenous Peoples
Friday, November 20th, 2015
Indigenous communities in Peru must clear 27 bureaucratic hurdles to obtain official recognition and formal land titles, a costly process that can take more than a decade, while concessionaires face between three and seven bureaucratic steps, depending on whether they seek permits for logging or mining, and can obtain their paperwork in less than a year, according to a new study released today at an event in Paris.