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One Land Disputant Detained, 20 Released in Tbong Khmum

4 August 2020

Cambodia

Main photo: People protest in front of the Dambe district hall in Tbong Khmum province on October 18, 2019. (Supplied)

National forest reserve encroached in Mae Sot

19 April 2020

South-Eastern Asia

Thailand

TAK: Three large tracts of woodland -- about 45 rai altogether -- were found to have been encroached on inside the Mae Sot National Forest Reserve in Phop Phra district, according to a local media report.

The encroachment was reported to the 6th Forest Protection Unit in Mae Sot district by local villagers.

Insight: Inside Brazil's battle to save the Amazon with satellites and strike forces

Brazil

By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Blogs

What is happening now across the world is nothing less than a systematic attack on peasant communities and Indigenous Peoples

7 September 2018

Authors:

Andrew Anderson

Guatemala

Honduras

Mexico

Brazil

Colombia

Philippines

Global

FRONT LINE DEFENDERS has documented 821 human rights defenders (HRDs) who have been killed in the four years since we started producing an annual global list in cooperation with national and international NGOs. Seventy-nine percent of this total came from six countries: Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and the Philippines. The vast majority of these cases have never been properly investigated, and few of the perpetrators of the killings have been brought to justice.

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Global cropping intensity gaps: Increasing food production without cropland expansion

Peer-reviewed publication

Journal Articles & Books

December 2018

Southern Asia

South-Eastern Asia

Sub-Saharan Africa

Spatial and temporal patterns of land clearing during policy change

Peer-reviewed publication

June 2018

Australia

Environmental policies and regulations have been instrumental in influencing deforestation rates around the world. Understanding how these policies change stakeholder behaviours is critical for determining policy impact. In Queensland, Australia, changes in native vegetation management policy seem to have influenced land clearing behaviour of landholders.