land tenure
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10 years on, tenure remains a challenge for REDD+
It’s now been 10 years since the United Nations launched REDD, an ambitious program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from…
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Collective forest tenure reforms: Where do we go from here?
The recent World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, held this past March in Washington D.C., provided a unique opportunity…
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Re-examining Indonesia’s land and forest fires
As world leaders gather next week for COP22 Marrakesh to discuss priorities for action on the Paris Agreement, Indonesia marks…
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Promoting progress through prospection
What are the biggest obstacles that local communities face when ensuring rights to their forest resources? Community leaders say it’s…
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What’s in a land title?
The indigenous community of Tres Islas in southeastern Peru seems to have it all—good fishing; a vast forest of timber,…
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Amazon land tenure study wins top award
Two scientists from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Peter Cronkleton and Anne Larson, have received the top award…
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Land tenure and livelihoods: What’s the connection?
A Harakmbut indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon has no say over the 17 gold-mining concessions overlapping its territory, despite…
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