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Equity Africa land rights mapping
Equity
Initiatives
January 17, 2020

Defending Earth’s Defenders Initiative

Silas Matoke and his wife Yordana Yawate, pose for photograph as they harvesting sago known as 'pangkur' on the banks of the Tuba river in Honitetu village, West Seram regency, Maluku province, Indonesia on August 22, 2017.
Africa
Insights
May 1, 2019

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

  • Environmental Rights
  • Equity
  • Forests
  • environmental justice
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
Alfred Brownell on a street in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Environmental Rights
  • Equity
  • Forests
  • environmental justice
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
Equity
Africa Asia
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
  • indigenous people
  • Indonesia
  • land rights
  • land use
  • commodities
  • Forests
  • indigenous people
  • Indonesia
  • land rights
Equity
Asia
Data
July 11, 2018

INFOGRAPHIC: Experience the Unequal Ways Communities and Companies Get Land Rights

  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
Equity
Africa
Insights
March 20, 2018

Women Get Shortchanged in Commercial Land Deals—Despite National Commitments to Gender Equality

  • Equity
  • Sustainable Development Goal 5
  • Gender
  • land rights
Woman in Tanzania.
  • Equity
  • Sustainable Development Goal 5
  • Gender
  • land rights
Equity
Asia Africa Latin America
News
December 20, 2017

RELEASE: New LandMark Data Measure Impacts of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Forests and Climate

  • Forests
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • Forests
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
Equity
Insights
July 28, 2016

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

  • Equity
  • Gender
  • human rights
  • land rights
Indigenous women, Philippines
  • Equity
  • Gender
  • human rights
  • land rights
Equity
Africa Asia Oceania Europe Latin America North America
News
November 5, 2015

ADVISORY: New Online Platform on Indigenous and Community Territories to Help Secure Land Rights Worldwide

  • mapping
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • mapping
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
Africa Europe
Insights
November 3, 2015

Beyond Conflict, Water Stress Contributed to Europe’s Migration Crisis

  • Climate Resilience
  • Water
  • Aqueduct
  • agriculture
  • mapping
  • water risk
Photo Credit: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/47205547@N02/21910319813/">MichaelGubi</a> via <a href="http://compfight.com">Compfight</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">cc</a>
  • Climate Resilience
  • Water
  • Aqueduct
  • agriculture
  • mapping
  • water risk
Equity
Africa
Insights
March 20, 2015

4 Property and Land Rights Issues, Explained through Videos

  • agriculture
  • land rights
  • natural resources
A farmer in Mali irrigates his crops. Photo by Tingju Zhu/IFPRI
  • agriculture
  • land rights
  • natural resources
Equity
Africa Asia Latin America
Insights
March 18, 2015

3 Ways to Tackle the Global Problem of Insecure Land Rights

  • Equity
  • Forests
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • natural resources
When land rights are weak, indigenous peoples can lose access to critical resources like forests. Photo by rbairdpccam/Flickr
  • Equity
  • Forests
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • natural resources
Equity
Africa
Insights
March 11, 2015

Q&A with Cécile Ndjebet: Empowering Women Is Key to Better Forest Management in Cameroon

  • Equity
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Gender
  • land rights
Women in Cameroon prepare to plant saplings. Photo by Cameroon Ecology.
  • Equity
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Gender
  • land rights
Equity
Africa
Insights
March 5, 2015

Q&A with Alda Salomao: Natural Gas Project Threatens Community Land in Mozambique

  • environmental democracy
  • land rights
  • fossil fuels
  • natural resources
Rural women on their way to the market. Photo by Ton Rulkens/Flickr
  • environmental democracy
  • land rights
  • fossil fuels
  • natural resources
Equity
Asia Africa Latin America
Insights
August 1, 2014

Why Community Land Rights Belong in the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Equity
  • International Climate Action
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • united nations
The proposed Sustainable Development Goals leave out a critical component of improving rural livelihoods—securing community land rights. Photo credit: Jane Boles, Flickr
  • Equity
  • International Climate Action
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • united nations
Equity
Asia
News
July 24, 2014

RELEASE: El fortalecimiento de los derechos forestales comunitarios es una herramienta fundamental para luchar contra el cambio climático, indica un nuevo e importante informe

  • Climate
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • land rights
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • land rights
Equity
Africa Asia Latin America
Data
July 23, 2014

Infographic: Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change

  • Climate
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights

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