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What is forest tenure (in)security? Insights from participatory perspective analysis

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2023
Uganda, Peru, Indonesia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
public participation
indigenous peoples' lands
tenure security
local communities
Over the past two decades, growing recognition of forest-based Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs) sparked forest tenure reforms to formalize IP and LC rights to forests and forest lands through a variety of mechanisms. Nevertheless, tenure security, an intended objective of such reforms, has received less attention, despite being integral to the life and livelihoods of IPs and LCs and important for forests.
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Coordinating forest tenure reform: Objectives, resources and relations in

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2022
Kenya, Uganda, Peru, Nepal
Forest Tenure
land governance
forest law
land rights
As forest tenure reform is mainstreamed around the world, outcomes are increasingly determined by the institutions that are responsible for administering its operationalisation and translating policy into implementation. This global study examines state institutional contexts of tenure reform in Kenya, Uganda, Nepal, Indonesia, and Peru. Interviews were administered in 2016–2017 using a fixed questionnaire applied across all countries involving 26–32 respondents from state implementers of forest tenure reform in each country for a total of 145 respondents.
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REDD+ Contribution to Well-Being and Income Is Marginal: The Perspective of Local Stakeholders

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2017
Indonesia, Peru, Brazil, Cameroon
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land tenure
In addition to being a global strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation, Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) intends to protect and improve the well-being and income of local stakeholders. The intention is to provide livelihood support in exchange for local stakeholder involvement in protecting forests.
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Multi-Level Policy Dialogues, Processes, and Actions: Challenges and Opportunities for National REDD+ Safeguards Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV)

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2014
Indonesia, Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land governance
REDD+ social safeguards have gained increasing attention in numerous forums. This paper reviews the evolution of multi-level policy dialogues, processes, and actions related to REDD+ social safeguards (e.g., Cancun Safeguards 1–5) among policy makers, civil society organizations, and within the media in Brazil, Indonesia and Tanzania, three countries with well advanced REDD+ programs. We find that progress on core aspects of social safeguards is uneven across the three countries. Brazil is by far the most advanced having drafted a REDD+ social safeguards policy.
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Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Oversight of Defaunation in REDD+ and Global Forest Governance

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2019
Indonesia, Nigeria, Ecuador, Colombia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land governance
Over the past decade, countries have strived to develop a global governance structure to halt deforestation and forest degradation, by achieving the readiness requirements for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+). Nonetheless, deforestation continues, and seemingly intact forest areas are being degraded. Furthermore, REDD+ may fail to consider the crucial ecosystem functions of forest fauna including seed dispersal and pollination.
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Growing the Field

A Collaborative Approach to Change

Reports & Research
January, 2023
Africa, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Senegal, Colombia, Asia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, Global
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
rights in divorce
land governance
land inheritance rights
climate change
land rights
community land rights
smallholders
youth
women
Land rights are ascendant across the development sector. Movements addressing women’s empowerment, poverty, social justice, food security and climate change are all increasingly turning to land rights to strengthen their cause. In 2022, renowned philanthropist MacKenzie Scott joined these efforts by making an unprecedented $20 million investment in our work. Ms. Scott’s generous gift represents a profound endorsement of the power of land rights to improve the lives of women, men, and communities around the world.
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Land Rights Matter – Global Programme Responsible Land Policy

Video

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2021
Ethiopia, Madagascar, Uganda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Peru, Laos, Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
VGGT
land administration
food security
deforestation
land productivity
sustainable land management
responsible investment
land rights
land conflicts
customary land rights
tenure security
capacity development
Indigenous Peoples
women
In this introductory video to the Global Programme Responsible Land Policy answers are given to what it wants to achieve, how it works and why land rights are so important. The Global Programme is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), co-funded by the European Union and works in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Laos, Madagascar, Peru (completed in 2021), Uganda and Paraguay (completed in 2018).
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Diamonds in the Delta

Manifesto

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2021
Mozambique, Colombia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Netherlands
Land, Climate Change & Environment
gender equity
urbanization
climate change
water
local communities
Diamonds in the Delta (DiD) is an international research-action network of scholars, water professionals and civil society advocates who are concerned about how climate change compounds problems of flooding and subsidence in delta cities. We – the people in the network – are united in our conviction that the needs, experiences and aspirations of communities that are actually or potentially most affected by these problems should be the focus when designing and implementing solutions.
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Housing, land and property rights as war financing commodities: A typology with lessons from Darfur, Colombia and Syria

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2022
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Western Asia, Europe, Oceania, Global
Land & Corruption
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Urban Tenure
land documentation
land records
land registration
deed registration
land governance
post-conflict settings
expropriation
land law
conflicts
land acquisitions
land ownership
The ongoing use of landscape-based conflict commodities — diamonds and other minerals, timber, wildlife, etc. — to finance wars continues to evolve. The success with which such commodities can be transacted to support militaries, militias and insurgencies has led belligerents to innovate with additional commodities. Housing, land and property (HLP) rights within war zones have belatedly joined the list of conflict commodities that are subject to transaction, and to such an extent as to warrant significant concern.
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GOVERNANCE OF FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION: ANALYSES OF GOVERNANCE ISSUES IN CASES FROM GHANA AND INDIA

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
December, 2021
Africa, Ghana, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, India
Forest Landscape Restoration
land administration
land governance
land restoration
This report highlights important differences in political, legal, and institutional environments, and the need to recognise opportunities and limitations in the local context when restoring land.