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Dispossession through land titling: Legal loopholes and shadow procedures to urbanized forestlands in the Yucatán Peninsula

Reports & Research
September, 2011
Mexico
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
land titling
urban forestry
urban land
land use
land grabbing
dispossession
community land rights
Under certain circumstances, land titling, property regime changes, and land‐use conversions yield substantial profits. Yet few people possess the wealth, knowledge, and networks to benefit from these procedures. In the Yucatán Peninsula, a region recently targeted as a prominent investment location by the Mexican national government (mainly with the “Tren Maya” megaproject) and the private capital, forestlands collectively owned as ejidos by Mayan peasants are on the trend to complete privatization.
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Critical Review of Selected Forest-Related Regulatory Initiatives

Applying a Rights Perspective

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Asia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, India
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
forest law
forestry
community forestry
deforestation
forest conservation
state forests
indigenous peoples' lands
forest land
forest management plans
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
This report brings together four studies that evaluate regulatory initiatives with implications for forest-dependent communities from a rights-based perspective. These are: The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 – India; Regulatory initiatives and selected outcomes of judicial processes in Malaysia; The Community Forest Act (2007) – Thailand; and The Indigenous People’s Rights Act (1997) – Philippines. Each study covers law making, content and implementation.
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Is gender an important factor influencing user groups' property rights and forestry governance? Empirical analysis from East Africa and Latin America

January, 2011
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
property rights
forestry
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Gender and Agroforestry in Africa: A review of women's participation

January, 2012
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
forestry
women
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Sustainable Land Management in Practice. Guidelines and Best Practices for Sub-Saharan Africa

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agroforestry systems
community forestry
forest management plans
forestry
land restoration
sustainable land management
These guidelines have been developed based on FAO’s and WOCAT’s extensive experience. The book draws, in particular, on WOCAT’s network and its database of SLM knowledge - as well as on WOC AT’s first overview book entitled ‘Where the land is greener’. These guidelines were implemented in the framework of the TerrAfrica partnership, whose main objective is to mainstream and upscale SLM in SSA, through the leveraging and harmonising of multisectoral investments at the local, country, subregional and regional levels.
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Avaliaçao do plano de açao para prevençao e controle do desmatamento na Amazônia legal: PPCDAm 2007-2010

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
Brazil
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
forest conservation
A partir de 2005, se produce una caída consistente y significativa de las tasas de deforestación en la Amazonía brasileña. La tasa anual pasó de 27. 400 km² en 2004 a 6.500 km² en 2010 - el nivel más bajo desde el inicio de las mediciones anuales en 1988.
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Forest Cover Change and Tenure: A Review of Global Literature

Reports & Research
November, 2011
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
forest management plans
forestry
land governance
In the REDD+ era, the issue of forest tenure has shot to the top of international forest policy agendas. Even beyond the issue of 'REDD readiness,' there is much debate on the role of tenure in other outcomes of sustainable forest management, in particular livelihoods and forest conservation. This literature review focuses on the latter concern and aims to provide a brief overview of the international literature on the question of the relationship between forest tenure and forest cover change.
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Divers Paths to Justice: Legal pluralism and the rights of indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2011
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, South-Eastern Asia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
forestry
land governance
This publication reveals that the majority of Southeast Asian countries already have plural legal systems, and to some extent custom is recognised as a source of rights in the legal framework of a number of them. National and international courts have affirmed indigenous peoples’ customary rights in land. And all these countries have endorsed and ratified key international human rights laws and treaties-- thus, the basis for securing indigenous peoples’ rights through a revalidation of customary law exists.
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REDD-Net Asia-Pacific Bulletin #3: Carbon Rights and REDD+

Institutional & promotional materials
January, 2011
South-Eastern Asia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
forestry
land governance
REDD+ is based on the right to benefit from (or to be compensated for) reducing forest-based emissionsn of greenhouse gases, either through fund-based payments, carbon market payments, or a combination of these. But who can claim this right? Should an entitlement to payment depend on who owns the so-called "carbon rights"? This raises a number of legal issues, including how to define and allocate carbon rights in national REDD+ frameworks.
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REDD+, Governance, and Community Forestry: Highlights from the Forest Governance Learning Group Asia Experts' Meeting

Institutional & promotional materials
July, 2011
South-Eastern Asia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
community forestry
forestry
land governance
How can REDD+ benefit from the lessons of community forestry?

The Forest Governance Learning Group brought together 12 experts from India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam, and the UN-REDD Programme to discuss how community forestry strengths and shortcomings can influence the further development of REDD+. This booklet summarizes their responses to nine timely questions and provides recommendations for future steps.