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A guide to investigation and indictment using an integrated approach to law enforcement

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
Land & Corruption
deforestation
forestry
corruption
Significantly increased rates of deforestation in Indonesia from the 1970s to the 2000s have brought pressure on law enforcement agencies to better enforce the law and prosecute forest crimes. Generally, criminal wrongdoing in the forestry sector is only prosecuted under the provisions of the Forestry Law. Several reports and results of studies suggest that these sanctions are ineffective in stopping crimes in the forestry sector because they only catch the petty criminals in the field. The main actors who fund and plan large-scale illegal activities persistently evade sanctions.
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A spatio-temporal analysis of forest loss related to cocaine trafficking in Central America

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2017
Central America, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
Land & Corruption
corruption
deforestation
forest land
A growing body of evidence suggests that criminal activities associated with drug trafficking networks are a progressively important driver of forest loss in Central America. However, the scale at which drug trafficking represents a driver of forest loss is not presently known. We estimated the degree to which narcotics trafficking may contribute to forest loss using an unsupervised spatial clustering of 15 spatial and temporal forest loss patch metrics developed from global forest change data.
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Analyse des dynamiques de deux régimes fonciers distincts Cas de la ville de Touba et Ziguinchor (Sénégal)

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Senegal
Land & Corruption
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land rights

L’originalité de la structure urbaine de Touba réside tout d’abord sur sa gestion dirigée par le Khalif général et son statut particulier d’un titre foncier qui s’adosse sur une forte démographie incontrôlée conjuguée à un fort étalement mal maitrisé. La politique d'urbanisme de Touba semble se résumer à la création de parcelles d'habitation et au libre choix laissé au khalife pour les sites d'implantation d'équipements ou d'infrastructures, et la destination des réserves.
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As Reservas Extrativistas da Terra do Meio

uma experiência de desenvolvimento alternativo para a Amazônia

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018
South America, Brazil
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
Land Conflicts
deforestation
extractive industries
forest conservation
forest land
indigenous peoples' land rights
indigenous peoples' lands
Indigenous Peoples
indigenous people's tenure
land inheritance rights
right of first occupancy
As reservas extrativistas, um dos legados do movimento organizado dos seringueiros do qual Chico Mendes foi um dos grandes protagonistas, foram idealizadas como proposta de desenvolvimento para Amazônia e para os povos da floresta, alternativa ao modelo estatal hegemônico, de características ambientalmente predatórias e socialmente excludentes. Desde o assassinato de Chico Mendes em 1988 foram criadas 88 reservas extrativistas (sendo 62 federais e 26 estaduais).
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Cambodia’s Unofficial Regime of Extraction: Illicit Logging in the Shadow of Transnational Governance and Investment

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2015
Cambodia
Forest Tenure
Land & Corruption
Land & Investments
land governance
corruption
deforestation
forest conservation
foreign investment
government
extractive industries
Cambodia has recently demonstrated one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. While scholars have long explored the drivers of tropical forest loss, the case of Cambodia offers particular insights into the role of the state where transnational governance and regional integration are increasingly the norm. Given the significant role logging rents play in Cambodia’s post-conflict state formation, this article explores the contemporary regime and its ongoing codependent relationship with forested land.
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Case 2.1 – Special Agricultural Business Lease (SABL)

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2019
Papua New Guinea
Land & Corruption
land administration
land acquisitions
land allocation
land access
land dispute
leases
land ownership
customary tenure
On July 21, 2011 the then Acting Prime Minister Sam Abal announced the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry to investigate 77 land leases which were issued under the Somare government’s Special Agriculture & Business Leases (SABL). The inquiry, which was later extended by Prime Minister Peter O’Neill in October 2011 for a further five months, discovered that over 90 percent of the leases totalling over 5 million hectares were illegally obtained from traditional landowners (Zealand, 2015).
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Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Panel: Land Rights for Sustainable Life on Land

Journal Articles & Books
Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2017
Africa, Americas, Asia, Oceania
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
VGGT
land governance
sustainable development
land economics
land rights
The Sustainable Development Goal 15 “Life on land” commits world leaders to work together to achieve land degradation neutrality (LDN) for safeguarding life on land. One of the objectives that comprise LDN is to reinforce responsible governance of land tenure. Land rights are a key factor for achieving LDN. This publication by the UNCCD CSO Panel aims to analyze and highlight the linkages between land rights and land degradation with the objective of offering policy recommendations to enhance land rights for both the prevention of land degradation and the recovery of degraded lands.
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Confronting complexity : using action-research to build voice, accountability, and justice in Nairobi's Mukuru informal settlements

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
Urban Tenure
advocacy
corruption
land rights
slums
urban planning
The Constitution of Kenya (2010) has provided the means for confronting new challenges to evictions and access to justice faced by vulnerable groups such as the residents of Mukuru. New jurisprudence has begun to emerge, addressing the human rights implications of evictions. Project researchers along with the Katiba Institute and Strathmore University’s School of Law work closely with the community to investigate different existing tenure arrangements in Mukuru to determine how the Constitution and land laws can be used to address challenges related to insecure land tenure.
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Connaître ou mettre en débat, alerter ou éclairer la décision : Trajectoires et appropriations des observatoires fonciers en Afrique

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2023
Africa, Western Africa
Forest Tenure
Land & Corruption
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
corruption
rural development
climate change
sustainable land management
land transactions
land investments
foreign investment
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Contested aquaculture development in the protected mangrove forests of the Kapuas estuary, West Kalimantan

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2014
Indonesia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
coastal areas
community land rights
concession (land)
conflict of interest
corruption
deforestation
development
displacement
dispossession
environment
expropriation
fisheries
forest conservation
forest land
green belts
land access
land acquisitions
land clearing
land conflicts
land dispute
land grabbing
land tenure
land transactions
local communities
protected areas
Indonesia comprises more mangroves than any other country, but also exhibits some of the highest mangrove loss rates worldwide. Most of these mangrove losses are caused by aquaculture development. Monetary valuation of the numerous ecosystem services of mangroves may contribute to their conservation.