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GRONINGEN (11 November, 2016) — Forest tenure, gender and land rights, and indigenous and community land rights are all key thematic areas related to land governance. For this
Date: 4 January 2017
Source: Mongabay
The Indonesian president moves to keep his promises to the nation’s indigenous groups.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: 28 June 2016
Source: Thmoson Reuters Foundation
Construction permits for the Tabajos dam are currently suspended due to concerns over indigenous land rights
By: Macharia Mwangi
Date: August 12th 2016
Source: Daily Nation
Dr Swazuri told State agencies to stop eviction of Sengwer people from Embobut Forest.
National Land Commission chairman Muhammad Swazuri on Friday ordered State agencies to stop evicting indigenous people living in their ancestral
By: Berndatte Christina Munthe
Date: 15 September 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Indonesia's highest Islamic council has issued a fatwa on burning land and forests, a government official said on Wednesday, in an effort to halt the toxic smog that blankets the region each year.
An irregular land titling system is behind the deforestation of a swath of Amazon rainforest now occupied by a Mennonite colony in Masisea municipality, in Peru’s Ucayali department.
In 2015, more than 40 land registry files were filled out with false information to give forests titles that made
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-
Source: The Nation
By: Pratch Rujivanarom & Stella Davies
Academics have urged the authorities to admit that people can live in forests while adjusting methods to prove land rights to include evidence from the field and from local residents to resolve land and forest management conflicts.
Date: 16 December
Source: The Hindu
“If the government genuinely wants to do good by us, all it needs to do is to give us our constitutional rights over our jal-jangal-zameen (water-forest-land) as per the FRA.”
Fern and Transparency International (TI) welcome the European Parliament resolution adopted on 7 June 2016, calling on the European Union (EU) to halt its support to the
By: Patrick Barkham
Date: 5 January 2017
Source: The Guardian
In unprecedented move, OECD will look into allegations that world’s largest conservation organisation facilitated abuse of Baka people of Cameroon
By: Morgan Erickson-Davis
Date: August 3rd 2016
Source: Mongabay
After years of rising deforestation rates, Myanmar is temporarily banning logging activity until March 2017.
Myanmar lost 5 percent of its tree cover from 2001 through 2014, with rates scaling upward over that time.