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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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Interview. Over 2 billion people impacted by land degradation

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land rights
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
migration
Between 1981 and 2003, nearly a quarter of global land got degraded, says UNCCD Executive Secretary Ibrahim Thiaw.
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Rangelands: Conservation and “Land Grabbing” in Rangelands: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mongolia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land acquisitions
land rights
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
land use
rangelands
Large-scale land acquisitions have increased in scale and pace due to changes in commodity markets, agricultural investment strategies, land prices, and a range of other policy and market forces. The areas most affected are the global “commons” – lands that local people traditionally use collectively — including much of the world’s forests, wetlands, and rangelands. In some cases land acquisition occurs with environmental objectives in sight – including the setting aside of land as protected areas for biodiversity conservation.
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Uniting forest and livelihood outcomes? Analyzing external actor interventions in sustainable livelihoods in a community forest management context

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2017
India
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
community forestry
rural development
External actor interventions in community forest management (CFM) attempt to support communities with developing forest institutions and/ or improving their livelihoods portfolio. Common pool resource (CPR) scholars argue that forest institutions are required to prevent overharvesting of the forest resource stock (appropriation dilemma), and to encourage investment in its maintenance (provision dilemma). The sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA) has been widely used to analyse the influence of interventions on rural livelihoods portfolios.
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Heterogeneity, commons and privatization : agrarian institutional change in Goa

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2006
India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
agrarian reform
land management
land ownership
land tenure
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Land degradation and migration in a dry land region in India

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2005
India, Southern Asia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land management
land reform
land tenure
migration
rural areas
water management
The study analyzes the impact of degradation of private land as well as common land resources on migration decisions in three dryland districts in Gujarat. The study concludes that overall, in dry areas such as Gujarat, access to irrigation, rather than land ownership is likely to deter migration. The poorest rural households in dry land regions are the least likely to migrate. Thus, any employment creation in rural dryland regions is most likely to help the poorest. Further, it was found that degradation of common-pool land resources influences short-term but not long-term migration.
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Gender dynamics in mango production system in India

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2014
India, Southern Asia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
food security
land rights
Rural women in India are rarely consulted in development projects that may increase men’s production and income, but add to their own workloads. Women’s on-farm household and productive labor is significant but underrecognized and under-valued. Women farmers have no rights to farmlands, though most farm production is carried out by them. This paper addresses women’s decision making regarding mango production.
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Decolonising Conservation Policy: How Colonial Land and Conservation Ideologies Persist and Perpetuate Indigenous Injustices at the Expense of the Environment

Volume 9 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2020
Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
Indigenous Peoples
The livelihoods of indigenous peoples, custodians of the world’s forests since time immemorial, were eroded as colonial powers claimed de jure control over their ancestral lands. The continuation of European land regimes in Africa and Asia meant that the withdrawal of colonial powers did not bring about a return to customary land tenure. Further, the growth in environmentalism has been interpreted by some as entailing conservation ahead of people.
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Sistematización de la metodología utilizada en el curso para el desarrollo de las capacidades de los pueblos indígenas sobre las directrices voluntarias sobre la gobernanza responsable de la tenencia de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018
Tanzania, Yemen, Nigeria, Nepal, Somalia, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala, China, Colombia, Indonesia, Australia, Bolivia, Nicaragua, India, Sudan, Namibia, Uruguay
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land governance
land tenure
capacity development
Indigenous Peoples
En 2016, el Centro para la Autonomía y el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CADPI), junto con el equipo de Pueblos Indígenas de FAO y el apoyo técnico del equipo de Tenencia de la Tierra de FAO, implementaron un programa de desarrollo de capacidades para y con los pueblos indígenas de Mesoamérica sobre las Directrices voluntarias sobre la gobernanza responsable de la tenencia de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques en el contexto de la seguridad alimentaria nacional (VGGT).<p></p>El presente manual sistematiza todo el material didáctico y la experiencia recopilada durante el pro
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Manejo sostenible de la vida silvestre - Unasylva 249

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2018
Tanzania, Ecuador, Kenya, South Africa, Tajikistan, Chile, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Indonesia, Botswana, Australia, Bolivia, Austria, Argentina, India, Pakistan, Mexico, Mongolia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
sustainable land management
forest land
Indigenous Peoples
La gestión sostenible de la vida silvestre es objeto de considerable atención en el debate internacional debido a su importancia para la conservación de la biodiversidad, la seguridad humana, los medios de subsistencia y la seguridad alimentaria. Las poblaciones locales han gestionado las especies silvestres durante milenios, incluso a través de la caza. En este número se presentan ejemplos suficientes para demostrar que en la era moderna también es factible la gestión sostenible de la vida silv estre.