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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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Human Development Report 2019 Singapore

Reports & Research
December, 2019
Singapore
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
gender equity
poverty
sustainable development
food security
environment
ABSTRACTED FROM THE INTRODUCTION:
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Land tenure and water rights in Thailand and Vietnam - challenges for ethnic minorities in mountainous forest regions

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2006
Thailand, Vietnam
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
environment
poverty
land policies
land law
Ethnic minorities in the mountainous forest regions of northern Thailand and northern Vietnam live in a particularly restrictive political, social and economic environment. Widespread degradation of land, water and forest resources has adverse effects on the livelihoods of these groups. Given the dramatically increasing scarcity of natural resources, regulation of resource access and allocation are becoming fundamental for the development of sustainable resource management, in which an active participation of the local population in planning and implementation is a crucial prerequisite.
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Reinvigorating resilience: violence against women, land rights, and the women's peace movement in Myanmar

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Myanmar
Land & Gender
title deeds
land titling
poverty
land law
land policies
resilience
legal empowerment
development agencies
women
In Myanmar, movements for gender justice strive to foster personal and collective security, vibrant livelihoods, and political engagement during a period of rapid and uncertain transition. This article draws from the experience of the Gender Equality Network (GEN), a coalition of over 100 organisations in Myanmar. It examines three cases in which GEN sought to document existing forms of resilience and expand these mechanisms through national-level advocacy. The first describes current attempts to publicise, and eventually eliminate, violence against women (VAW).
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Land Use and Land Cover Changes during the Second Indochina War and Their Long-Term Impact on a Hilly Area in Laos

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Laos
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
poverty
food security
environment
land cover change
Armed conflicts create drastic socioeconomic shocks that lead to land use and land cover changes in ways that are not yet well understood. Several studies have used satellite imagery to detect such changes during periods of conflict. However, there has been an insufficient examination of older conflicts before the 1970s. By examining older conflicts, we can examine the effects of conflict on land use and land cover over a long time span.
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Indigenous peoples, land rights and forest conservation in Myanmar

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Myanmar
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
title deeds
land titling
poverty
land policies
land law
In light of the urgency of both forest conservation and the recognition of indigenous communities’ rights to land and resources, along with the documented potential for creating conservation synergies through recognition of community rights, this study tries to look at the approaches to forest conservation taken in Myanmar so far, and to take stock of their achievements and impact with respect to both forest conservation and the rights and wellbeing of communities.
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Prepared Communities

Implementing the Urban Community Resilience Assessment in Vulnerable Neighborhoods of Three Cities

Reports & Research
December, 2018
Brazil, Indonesia, India
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
capacity development
climate change
environment
local communities
poverty
sustainable land management
urban areas
urban population
Climate change affects poor and marginalized communities first and hardest. Particularly in cities, a lack of access to basic services, a long history of unsustainable urban development, and political exclusion render the urban poor one of the most vulnerable groups to climate induced natural hazards and disasters. Yet strategies focused on reducing these people’s vulnerability to climate change often overlook crucial differences in their needs and situations.
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Smallholders and forest landscape restoration in upland northern Thailand

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Thailand
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
development agencies
environment
poverty
farmers
Forest landscape restoration (FLR) considers forests as integrated social, environmental and economic landscapes, and emphasizes the production of multiple benefits from forests and participatory engagement of stakeholders in FLR planning and implementation. To help inform application of the FLR approach in upland northern Thailand, this study reviews the political and historical context of forest and land management, and the role of smallholders in forest landscape management and restoration in upland northern Thailand.
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A diagnostic on social protection needs and opportunities for forest-dependent communities in the United Republic of Tanzania

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2018
Tanzania, Switzerland, Nepal, Sweden, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Italy, Indonesia, Congo, Malawi, Niger, Norway
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
forest land
community forestry
poverty
land degradation
This study is aimed at gaining an understanding of the poverty and vulnerability situation of forest-dependent communities in the United Republic of Tanzania and generating information on the availability of social protection interventions, with a view to identifying pathways for establishing sustainable social protection for these communities.
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People in Between: Conversion and Conservation of Forest Lands in Thailand

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2000
Thailand
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
title deeds
land titling
poverty
land policies
land law
The analysis of `ambiguous lands' and the people who inhabit them is most revealing for understanding environmental deterioration in Thailand. `Ambiguous lands' are those which are legally owned by the state, but are used and cultivated by local people. Land with an ambiguous property status attracts many different actors: villagers hungry for unoccupied arable lands in the frontiers; government departments looking for new project sites; and conservation agencies searching for new areas to be protected.