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Indigenous Land Rights: How Far Have We Come and How Far Do We Have to Go?

  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Indigenous People in Peru
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Farmer from rural Kenya working on her land
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
Initiatives

Gender

Farm workers clean the solar panels of a solar water pump at the farms of Gurinder Singh a farmer with a land holding of 80 acres in Jagadhri.

Why Are Women Left Out of Land Decisions, Despite Gender Equity Laws?

  • Equity & Governance
  • Gender
  • human rights
  • land rights
Indigenous women, Philippines
  • Equity & Governance
  • Gender
  • human rights
  • land rights

Cutting Your Corporate Carbon Footprint? Why You Should Use Science-Based Targets

  • Climate
  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate science
Renewable energy can help companies reach carbon-cutting goals. Photo Credit: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/92688599@N00/2302264331/">Wavy1</a> via <a href="http://compfight.com">Compfight</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">cc</a>
  • Climate
  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate science

6 Ways to Bring Land Expropriation Laws Up to International Standards

  • human rights
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

CAIT Indonesia Climate Data Explorer (PINDAI) Data

  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases

4 Big Reasons Why Land Rights Matter

  • Paris Agreement
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
A farmer in Babati, Tanzania.
  • Paris Agreement
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Examples of How BESCOM’s Net-Metering Program Works

  • Energy
  • Cities
  • renewable energy
  • Energy
  • Cities
  • renewable energy

Environmental Justice and Democracy Failures at the Heart of Flint’s Water Crisis

  • Equity & Governance
  • Freshwater
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • Water Quality
  • water risk
Water plant in Flint, Mich.
  • Equity & Governance
  • Freshwater
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • Water Quality
  • water risk

Strengthening Indigenous Land Rights: 3 Challenges to “Free, Prior and Informed Consent”

  • human rights
  • land rights
  • mapping
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Pack horse
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • mapping
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Insights

Restoring Africa’s Degraded Lands by Improving Farmers’ Rights

  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Restoration at work on Ethiopia’s steep slopes
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

3 Reasons Why Community Land Rights Are Not Legally Secure in Many Countries

  • human rights
  • land rights
  • natural resources
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Isangi people on the Congo river
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • natural resources
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Death of Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres Underscores the Need for Environmental Democracy

  • environmental democracy
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • poverty
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Berta Cáceres works with the people of Rio Blanco to set up a road blockade in protest of a dam.
  • environmental democracy
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • poverty
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
A woman collects firewood in India’s Western Ghats.
  • Gender
  • human rights