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Forest Peoples: Numbers Across the World

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By providing estimated figures for indigenous and forest peoples’ populations in countries and regions across the globe, this new Forest Peoples Programme report seeks to raise awareness of the existence of peoples who primarily depend on forests for their livelihoods, and to enhance their visibility as key actors and rights-holders in the management and use of forests and forest resources. These figures may serve as a useful reference in advocacy for the recognition of forest peoples’ legal more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 09, 2012

The global land rush : what the evidence reveals about scale and geography

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In developing countries, millions of people depend on land for their food and livelihoods. But a global ‘land rush’ — moves to acquire large tracts of land across the world — is increasing competition for this vital resource. A growing body of evidence points to the scale, geography, players and key characteristics of the phenomenon. Some of this is based on media reports and some on country level inventories. Much of the data cannot be compared due to variations in methodology, timescale and more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 30, 2012

Transnational Land Deals for Agriculture in the Global South

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This report provide important insight into the complex, global phenomenon of large-scale acquisition of land. They confirm this is a lasting trend and not a mere “bubble”. While the rush for land may have peaked in 2009, it continues at a steady pace.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 30, 2012

The Land Security Agenda : How investor risks in farmland create opportunities for sustainability

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This report by the Earth Security Initiative seeks to reframe the debate of ‘land-grabs’ in terms of solutions. It builds an argument for taking decisive action on ecological and human rights from a perspective of risk management, based on the prediction that resource pressures will continue to intensify globally. The solutions proposed seek to incentivize investors and political leaders to encourage investments that create long-term value, and deter those that deplete a country’s human and more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 24, 2012

Rights to resources in crisis: Reviewing the fate of customary tenure in Africa

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Customary land tenure is as much a social system as a legal code and from the former obtains its enormous resilience, continuity, and flexibility. Of critical importance to modern customary landholders is how far national law supports the land rights it delivers and the norms operated to sustain these. Human and People’s Rights defines indigenous peoples as mainly hunter-gatherers and pastoralists. This grouping comprises around 25 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa, only six percent of more...

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D C on February 15, 2012

The New Wave of Land Grabbing by the Extractive Industries and the Devastating Impact on Earth

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MINING, OIL and GAS: the impact of these extractive industries has always raised serious social and environmental concerns. However, this report signals a wake-up call to the fact that, today, the scale, expansion and acceleration of these industries are far greater than most of us realise. We are no longer talking about isolated pockets of destruction and pollution. Nowadays, chances are that, no matter where you live on Earth, land acquisitions for mining, oil and gas might soon be at your more...

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Moushumi Biswas on March 11, 2012

USAID Policy: Gender Equality and Female Empowerment

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An updated Agency policy on gender equality and female empowerment is needed to reflect fundamental changes in the world and the evidence that has accumulated since the 1982 Policy Paper on Women in Development was issued. This new policy on Gender Equality and Female Empowerment builds on the Agency’s progress to date.

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Moushumi Biswas on March 11, 2012

The Land Security Agenda : How investor risks in farmland create opportunities for sustainability

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Moushumi Biswas on March 21, 2012

Turning Point : What future for forest peoples and resources in the emerging world order?

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This report takes stock of the current status of forest rights and tenure globally, assesses the key issues and events of 2011 that shape possibilities to improve local rights and livelihoods, and identifies key questions and challenges that the world will face in 2012 and beyond.

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Moushumi Biswas on February 07, 2012

Accelerating Reforms in Forest Rights, Governance and Markets

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This report expands on 5 years of impact by the Rights and Resources Initiative. The impact of RRI’s 14 Partners and 120 plus Collaborators is strong and extensive. The collective RRI ‘fingerprint’ can be seen in major tenure reforms in China and Brazil, stronger tenure advocacy in Nepal and Central America, greater global awareness of tenure in global REDD negotiations, enhancing corporate responsibility standards and policy, growing reform movements, and supporting women’s natural resource more...

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Moushumi Biswas on February 20, 2012

The Greener Side of REDD+

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In the last decade, countries have committed major resources to reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD). This paper assesses the factors that underpin the transition from net deforesters to net forest growers in China, South Korea, Vietnam, India and Chile. The authors review the literature on forest policy processes and government-led reforestation and restoration programs, and find their success relied on government support at the more...

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Sonia Hossain on July 20, 2011

Measuring the Depth of Indigenous Peoples and Community Forest Tenure

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This brief presents some preliminary results of a legal analysis conducted by RRI to provide a fuller picture of Indigenous Peoples and community forest tenure rights globally. This analysis unpacks the collective rights to forestland and forest resources held by communities and codified in law. The analysis assesses whether communities can access forest resources; make decisions over forest management; commercially harvest timber or other forest products; exclude outsiders from their forests; more...

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Sonia Hossain on July 20, 2011

An economic case for tenure reform in Indonesia's forests

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The paper takes into consideration the multiple actors at play in government and civil society who are trying to place these changes in political and livelihoods contexts – too often from conflicting vantage points. This analysis draws on information from various sources to present the current “state of play” in Indonesia—which has emerged as a key country in the global effort to reduce forest-based emissions. Much attention has been given in the global debate to the argument that reducing more...

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Moushumi Biswas on September 05, 2011

A Case Study on Large-Scale Forestland Acquisition in China

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This study examines the case of one FDI made by Stora Enso with International Finance Corporation support in forestland plantations in Guangxi, China. Stora Enso is a company which explicitly adheres to CSR principles and committed to gaining Forest Stewardship Council certification by 2007. The study was prompted by prior field visits by Rural Development Institute (RDI) and Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) staff in April of 2006 which identified irregularities in the respect of local more...

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Moushumi Biswas on October 25, 2010

Who Owns Carbon in Rural China?

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To ensure the long-term success of China's carbon sequestration programs while addressing welfare of the affected rural poor, it is essential for China to continue its reform efforts on several fronts. Most importantly, the security of farmers’ rights over forestland and trees should be bolstered and adequate compensatory regimes established for farmers affected by carbon sequestration programs. This report covers these topics in depth.

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Moushumi Biswas on August 04, 2010

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