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    A Comparative Analysis of National Laws and Regulations Concerning Women's Rights to Community Forests

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2017
    Africa, Asia

    Up to 2.5 billion people hold and use the world’s community lands, yet the tenure rights of women—who comprise more than half the population of the world’s Indigenous Peoples and local communities—are seldom acknowledged or protected by national laws.

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    How Strengthening Community Forest Rights Mitigates Climate Change

    Reports & Research
    July, 2014
    Global

    With deforestation and other land uses accounting for 11 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, the international community agrees on the need to address deforestation as an important component of climate change. Community forests represent a vital opportunity to curbing climate change that has been undervalued. Today communities have legal or official rights to at least 513 million hectares of forests, only about one eighth of the world’s total, comprising 37.7 billion tonnes of carbon.

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