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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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Reporting on land solutions: threading the how's and the why

Multimedia
March, 2022
Global
climate change
deforestation
water
land rights
This powerpoint presentation explains why and how to use the Solutions Journalism approach for reporting on key land-related challenges and solutions, including pollution, climate change, deforestation, water scarcity, waste disposal etc. The presentation was given at the Introductory Briefing: Reporting on Environmental and Land Issues: The Solutions Journalism Approach, on 9 March 2022.
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Shifting Cultivation in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal: Weighing Government Policies against Customary Tenure and Institutions

Reports & Research
July, 2015
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
land policies
climate change
deforestation
farmland
indigenous peoples' lands
agriculture
sustainable land use
community land rights
Indigenous Peoples
Shifting cultivation is a dominant form of farming in the eastern Himalayas, practised by a diverse group of indigenous people from the most marginalized social and economic groups. The survival of these indigenous people and the survival of their forests are inextricably linked. However, policy makers and natural resource managers perceive shifting cultivation to be wasteful, destructive to forests, and unsustainable.
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In the Face of Threats and Invasions in the Forests, Communities Defend and Reclaim Their Life Spaces

WRM Bulletin 254 – Jan/Feb 2021

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2021
Mozambique, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
gender equity
poverty
sustainable development
land-use planning
environment
climate change
fisheries
deforestation
forest conservation
forest management plans
mining
land dispute
community land rights
customary tenure
tenure security
Indigenous Peoples
land rights activists
local communities
extractive industries
women
The articles in this Bulletin are written by the following organizations and individuals: National Coordinator for the Defense of the Mangrove Ecosystem (C-CONDEM), Ecuador; Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakya (Bentala Raya Heritage Foundation), Indonesia; Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology and members of the WRM international secretariat in close collaboration with several allies who are part of grassroots groups in different countries.
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Land Tenure Considerations in Sri Lanka’s Proposed National REDD+ Strategy

Conference Papers & Reports
April, 2016
Sri Lanka
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
VGGT
climate change
forestry
deforestation
forest conservation
private forests
state forests
forest land
agriculture
forest management plans
land tenure
At the request of the Sri Lankan Government an assessment was designed and conducted as part of the development of the country’s national strategy on REDD+. The assessment involved applying criteria from the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests (VGGT) to analyze the tenure implications for a wide array of proposed policies and measures (PAMs) to address deforestation and forest degradation. The assessment will help Sri Lanka to prioritize and make investment decisions among the PAMs.
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Armed conflict and mining induced land-use transition in northern Nimba County, Liberia

Reports & Research
January, 2019
Liberia
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
land governance
environment
deforestation
land use
land use change
mining
natural resources management
land conflicts
local communities
This study determined pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict land use change and analysed the impact of armed conflict on the intensity of land use change in northern Nimba County. Landsat images of 1986, 1990, 2002 and 2016 were classif
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The Land We Lost Briefing Document

Native Customary Rights (NCR) and Monoculture Plantations in Sarawak

Reports & Research
July, 2019
Malaysia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
sustainable development
forest law
forestry
deforestation
forest conservation
sustainable land management
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
extractive industries
palm oil industries
This publication is the outcome of our research on the socio-environmental impacts of large pulp and paper, timber tree and oil palm plantations in Sarawak. It contains two case studies on plantation affected indigenous communities in Batu Niah and Bakong in the Miri Division. It stresses on the importance of understanding the context of large monoculture plantations in Sarawak accurately, as it entails two destructive factors. First, it involves deforestation, as it is clearly a post-logging development.
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The Land We Lost

Native Customary Rights (NCR) and Monoculture Plantations in Sarawak

Reports & Research
July, 2019
Malaysia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
sustainable development
forest law
forestry
deforestation
forest conservation
sustainable land management
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
extractive industries
palm oil industries
This publication is the outcome of our research on the socio-environmental impacts of large pulp and paper, timber tree and oil palm plantations in Sarawak. It contains two case studies on plantation affected indigenous communities in Batu Niah and Bakong in the Miri Division. It stresses on the importance of understanding the context of large monoculture plantations in Sarawak accurately, as it entails two destructive factors. First, it involves deforestation, as it is clearly a post-logging development.
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Una década para la reparación de los daños que dejaron los incendios forestales

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2019
Bolivia, South America
waste (abuse)
deforestation
Una década para la reparación de los daños que dejaron los incendios forestales
Lorenzo Soliz
Tristemente, el 2019 pasará a la historia como el año en que la humanidad incendió el planeta, la casa grande de todos los seres vivos. El fuego está arrasando con muchas áreas de distintas regiones de países del norte y del sur.
Arden los pulmones del planeta
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Deforestation-free commitments: The challenge of implementation – An application to Indonesia

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
South-Eastern Asia, Indonesia
Forest Landscape Restoration
climate change
deforestation
environment
forest management plans
land access
land governance
land rights
land use
local communities
sustainable development
The deforestation-free movement (or zero-deforestation) has emerged recently in a context of lower state control, globalization and pressure on corporations by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) through consumer awareness campaigns, acknowledging the essential role of agricultural commodities in deforestation. It takes the form of commitments by corporations to ensure that the products they either produce, process, trade or retail are not linked to forest conversion.