Source: BBC News
11 December 2014

By Ashraf Padanna
Trivandum

For more than five months, a group of 50 tribespeople have been standing outside a government office in the southern Indian state of Kerala to press their claim for land and amenities.

They are demanding that the government deliver on its promise of giving land, water and electricity to the community.

Tribespeople comprise nearly 500,000 of Kerala's 33 million people and are mostly landless and desperately poor.

Source: La Vía Campesina | GRAIN | pdf

05 December 2014

A global effort to give small farmers and indigenous communities control over lands is the best hope we have to deal with climate change and feed the world’s growing population.

Source: The Guardian 

By: John Vidal

Indigenous people warn during Lima climate talks that they are being ignored over exploitation of lands and are critical of pledges to stop deforestation.

New report finds that the Peruvian government is failing to address the real causes of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon while undermining indigenous peoples’ efforts to protect their forests.

Source: FAO

14/11/2014 - 2nd meeting of the organizing committee on access to land calls for civil society organizations and governmental institutions to mobilize and launch global debate on land tenure and investment agreements 

WOCAN in collaboration with RECOFTC- The Center for People and Forests has developed an infographic to highlight the discussions and recommendations of the Regional Dialogue on Women’s Inclusion in Landscape Management, held on 7-9 October 2014 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

27 November 2014

Source: Rainforest Foundation UK

Much of the commercial forest sector remains chaotic and badly governed. There is little evidence that ‘trickle-down’ wealth distribution from either logging or strict conservation has ever materialised, a view that is supported by recent independent evaluations of some of the main international backers of these sectors[1].

Deadline:01.23.2015

Source: ILC

Every two years, ILC launches an open call inviting interested organisations to apply for membership through a formal application. The applications received during the current period will be voted upon by ILC members at the next Assembly of Members in Senegal in 2015.