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    Land and Resource Rights

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    Insights
    November 20, 2023

    Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are Using Satellite Data to Fight Deforestation

    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • COP16
    Man building a canopy blind in a tropical forest
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • COP16
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    August 18, 2021

    3 Benefits of Women’s Collective Land Rights

    • Gender
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • land rights
    • human rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    An all-women community forest user group in Nepal.
    • Gender
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • land rights
    • human rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    March 25, 2021

    4 Ways Indigenous and Community Lands Help Fight Climate Change

    • Climate
    • Forests
    • National Climate Action
    • Paris Agreement
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • land rights
    • COP26
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    • COP16
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • National Climate Action
    • Paris Agreement
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • land rights
    • COP26
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    • COP16
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    February 11, 2021

    5 Lessons for Securing Women’s Collective Land Rights

    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • Gender
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Community forest
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • Gender
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    News
    October 7, 2020

    RELEASE: New Study Reveals Mining in the Amazon Threatens 20% of Indigenous Lands

    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Brazil nut producer, Peru
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    News
    October 7, 2020

    COMUNICADO: Nuevo estudio revela que la minería en el Amazonas amenaza al 20 % de las tierras indígenas

    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Brazil nut producer, Peru
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    October 7, 2020

    La Minería Legal e Ilegal Amenazan el 20% de las Tierras Indígenas en la Amazonía

    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Peru farmer
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    October 7, 2020

    Mining Threatens 20% of Indigenous Lands in the Amazon

    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Brazil nut producer, Peru
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    September 21, 2020

    Rural Women Must Be at the Heart of COVID-19 Response and Recovery

    • Equity & Governance
    • coronavirus
    • agriculture
    • food security
    • Gender
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Manioc farmer
    • Equity & Governance
    • coronavirus
    • agriculture
    • food security
    • Gender
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    Insights
    September 8, 2020

    COVID-19, Rising Gold Prices and Illegal Mining Threaten Indigenous Lands in the Amazon

    • coronavirus
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Mining for gold in South America
    • coronavirus
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    March 3, 2020

    Beyond Title: How to Secure Land Tenure for Women

    • Sustainable Development Goal 1
    • Sustainable Development Goal 5
    • Gender
    • land rights
    • Sustainable Development Goal 2
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    woman-planting-cabbage
    • Sustainable Development Goal 1
    • Sustainable Development Goal 5
    • Gender
    • land rights
    • Sustainable Development Goal 2
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    August 8, 2019

    The IPCC Calls for Securing Community Land Rights to Fight Climate Change

    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • Sustainable Development Goal 16
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Women of Peru's Awajun Native Community of Shampuyacu
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • Sustainable Development Goal 16
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Africa
    Insights
    May 1, 2019

    Goldman Prize Winner Alfred Brownell Stopped Palm Oil Companies from Destroying Liberian Forests

    • Environmental Rights
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • environmental justice
    • land rights
    • low carbon development
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Alfred Brownell on a street in Boston, Massachusetts
    • Environmental Rights
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • environmental justice
    • land rights
    • low carbon development
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    January 24, 2019

    Land Matters: How Securing Community Land Rights Can Slow Climate Change and Accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals

    • Environmental Rights
    • sustainable development goals
    • land rights
    • natural resources
    • Sustainable Development Goal 2
    • Sustainable Development Goal 5
    • Sustainable Development Goal 9
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • Sustainable Development Goal 11
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    indigenous-people-forest
    • Environmental Rights
    • sustainable development goals
    • land rights
    • natural resources
    • Sustainable Development Goal 2
    • Sustainable Development Goal 5
    • Sustainable Development Goal 9
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • Sustainable Development Goal 11
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    July 13, 2018

    Disaster-Focused Headlines from the Congo Often Hide Signs of Progress

    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • human rights
    • land rights
    Ilanga, Democratic Republic of Congo
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • human rights
    • land rights
    Equity & Governance
    Asia Oceania
    Insights
    July 11, 2018

    Mientras los grupos indígenas esperan durante décadas para los títulos de tierras, las empresas están adquiriendo sus territorios

    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • natural resources
    • commodities
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Shipibo-Konibo
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • natural resources
    • commodities
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Asia Africa Latin America
    News
    July 11, 2018

    RELEASE: New Research Exposes Uneven Playing Field Between Communities and Companies Vying for Land Rights

    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Asia Africa Latin America
    News
    July 11, 2018

    COMUNICADO DE PRENSA: Una nueva investigación revela un campo de juego desigual entre las comunidades y las empresas que compiten por los derechos sobre las tierras

    • land use
    • commodities
    • Forests
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • land use
    • commodities
    • Forests
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

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