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IGAD Advances Implementation of AU Declaration on Land

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Land Policy Initiative (IGAD LPI) Project, in collaboration with the Land Policy Initiative (LPI) of the African Union and with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), this morning opened a one-day validation workshop on the Mapping of Research and Training Institutions and Country Profiles on the Status of Land Governance in IGAD Member States in Nairobi.


Toward a Global Baseline of Carbon Storage in Collective Lands

Reports & Research
November, 2016
Global

The study’s findings offer the most compelling quantitative evidence to date of the unparalleled role that forest peoples have to play in climate change mitigation, reinforcing the critical importance of collective tenure security for the sustainable use and protection of the world’s tropical forests and the carbon they sequester.

Thirst for coltan, gold threatens Venezuelan forests, indigenous lands

By: Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres

Date: October 31st 2016

Source: Mongabay


  • Venezuela has invited foreign companies to play a leading role in developing the Orinoco Mining Arc, potentially opening 12 percent of the country to mining interests, and endangering forests, rivers, national parks and indigenous lands in the remote southeastern part of the nation.
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