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'Don't just rely on NGOs': finding solutions to deforestation
How can food companies stop contributing to deforestation? A panel of experts discussed solutions at a roundtable in New York
First global funding pact launched to secure indigenous land rights
STOCKHOLM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous people under threat from companies seeking to develop their land for agriculture, mining and energy projects will be supported with money and practical help through a major global partnership backed by philanthropic and government funding.
The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility is the first initiative to provide grants to advance the rights of indigenous people to help them protect their forest land and resources.
Mobile app uses real-time satellite data to strengthen forest and land rights
The app will provide weekly satellite deforestation data in 17 tropical countries including Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A mobile app launched on Tuesday will allow indigenous people, forest managers and law enforcement officials in remote areas to monitor deforestation and fires regardless of connectivity, according to developers.
Companies' ‘zero deforestation’ pledges: everything you need to know
Corporations globally have made hundreds of commitments on deforestation. But what do these pledges really mean and why do scandals keep happening?
Report Reveals a Company Linked to Paraguayan Minister Drives Deforestation in the Chaco Region
The following is an English-translation of a Spanish-language article by Jazmín Acuña, originally published by Kurtural.
The Chaco region, which stretches across parts of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina, has the world's highest rate of deforestation, caused by logging for the production of charcoal and the expansion of grazing land for livestock.
No action as migrant labourers encroach upon pavements
Kajal (24) is in no hurry to cook dinner for her children who are running around as she sits with her husband, talking and complaining about their ‘neighbours’.
Her husband Santosh, in turn, is in no mood to react to what his wife tells him.
“I have bigger things to worry about. I want the government to make houses for us here,” he says, pointing to the pavement and the adjoining piece of land on the Bathinda-Goniana road.
Protesters demand land-rights policy review
Land rights activists gathered in protest outside Government House on Monday, demanding a solution to land conflicts that have arisen as a result of government policies.
The People’s Movement for a Just Society (P-Move) led the demonstration to demand government action, saying they had been campaigning on this issue for four years but there had been no improvement. Many people who have been involved in land conflicts across the country joined in the protest.
Land rights defenders appeal to U.N. to end violence by states and corporations
Land rights defenders from 29 countries call for greater vigilance in ensuring governments comply with laws
MUMBAI, Sept 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dozens of land rights defenders from 29 countries have written to the United Nations to draw attention to the increasing violence they face from states and corporations, and calling for greater vigilance in ensuring governments comply with laws.
Colombia's Precarious Peace
As a 53-year civil war winds down, coca growers face growing pressure to shelve their lucrative crop.
Mauricio Quiróz has always had a plan.
The 38-year-old farmer and entrepreneur lives with his wife and three kids on a small ranch on the lush, steep mountainside that surrounds the municipality of Briceño, in the department of Antioquia in northwestern Colombia.