Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Author: Ange Aboa
Ivorian security forces have driven thousands of cocoa farmers out of a national park this week at the start of an operation to preserve the refuge for endangered chimpanzees and forest elephants, a government source and locals said on Thursday.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: October 6th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Communities that own the territory are more likely to conserve the forest than other land users
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giving indigenous people land title deeds is one of the most cost-
Research shows that indigenous peoples and communities manage their forests and other ecosystems well if they have secure rights over their land. Because healthy ecosystems deliver a whole suite of services — from timber to nonforest products to carbon mitigation — it’s in the broadest public
Source: New Jersey Herald
Author: Haggag Salama
LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Hundreds of Egypt's ethnic minority Nubians have blocked a main road in the country's south to protest the government's plan to sell land they claim to be their ancestral territory.
Monday's protest, on the road between the city
By: Nitin Sethi
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: Business Standard
Forest Rights Act allows government to divert forest lands for other purposes only after prior consent of the tribals through gram sabhas
By: Sophie Morlin-Yron
Date: April 25th 2016
Source: The Ecologist
Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron. That ability to straddle the two very different
Date: 7 July 2016
Source: Today
Fraught land policy based on collective ownership puts rural life at a crossroads
BEIJING — Among communist China’s holy pilgrimage sites, Xiaogang Village stands out. The tiny place is a living shrine to villagers who defied the party to dismantle disastrous
Source: Land Rights Now Campaign
As India’s upper house is currently debating a controversial afforestation bill, civil society groups across the country are expressing concerns that the bill would do more harm than good.
Inclusive approach in concert with Mekong region partners forges unprecedented access to data and information on land
For more information, please contact: Neil Sorensen at +33641668648 or neil.sorensen@landportal.info
Satellites provide a wealth of information about our planet’s resources. NASA’s Landsat satellite, for example, produces images that can be analyzed by complex algorithms to calculate areas of forest loss with greater precision than ever before. These advances allow Global Forest Watch to create an
Global leaders must acknowledge that land and forests owned and managed by local communities are more likely to prevent deforestation and deliver greater carbon storage
In my native Colombia, the cloud forests of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta have been described as holding the most important
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / New Era
The Ministry of Land Reform is pondering the possibility of increasing the benefits associated with the registration of communal land rights.
Currently, registered communal land owners are only issued with a certificate. One of the