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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.

2. Library Resource

   

   Background document on guidance to corporates on the practical application of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure (VGGT)

   Manuals & Guidelines

   January, 2015

   Global

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land & Investments

   VGGT

   sustainable development

   food security

   fisheries

   forestry

   agriculture

   land rights

   land tenure

   tenure security

   The objective of this document is to guide the corporates and investors understand how to respect peoples’ ’‘tenure rights to land, fisheries and forest”,and ensure that communities have access to remedies ‘acceptable to both parties’ when such rights are impinged or such potential is recognized.

3. Library Resource

   

   Land Legacy Issues - Guidance on Corporate Responsibility

   Manuals & Guidelines

   September, 2017

   Global

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   land governance

   sustainable development

   fisheries

   forestry

   agriculture

   land rights

   land tenure

   tenure security

   This Guide aims to inform companies that hold land or purchase land directly from companies that hold land. It provides operational guidance for companies confronting “legacy land issues” and clarifies a company’s roles and responsibilities in dealing with legacy land issues in their existing holdings, while also providing direction on where to look for more detailed information and tools.