Por qué los datos son vitales para restaurar y recuperar los bosques en Brasil
03 April 2025
Por Renato Grandelle, coordinador de comunicación de la Coalición Brasil Clima, Bosques y Agricultura, también contribuyó a este artículo.
forest land
Latest News
Murdered activist’s widow requests continued witness protection
28 May 2023
Pinnapa Pruksapan, widow of murdered indigenous land rights activist Porlajee Rakchongcharoen, has requested continued protection for her and her family.
Blogs
Six tips for Africa’s restoration entrepreneurs
06 October 2020
How to get tree planting — and growing — right
This article was originally published by Forests News
Securing Forest Tenure: GLA Partners to Pilot Forest Tenure Assessment Tool in three Countries
26 February 2020
Forests are critically important for many of the world’s poor who depend on them for food, income, medicine and building materials. As such, forests are a nexus of broadly held policy goals such as poverty reduction, economic growth, conservation and climate change. Most forests in the developing world are governed, in practice, through community-based tenure systems.
Land Rights: A Crucial Strategy for Combatting Climate Change
29 January 2018
Land is connected to many of our most pressing global issues. For example, a significant body of empirical evidence supports the view that strengthening indigenous and local communities’ legal rights to their land is a crucial strategy for avoiding deforestation and mitigating climate change.
Library
Moving from information dissemination to community participation in forest landscapes
Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2017
Asia
Traditionally, in the context of environment and natural resources management, many communication efforts have focused on the dissemination of technical information to end-users who were expected to adopt them. Development practitioners were trying to ‘push’ their products on communities in order to receive community commitment to their development initiatives.
Securing Forest Tenure Rights for Rural Development: Lessons from Six Countries in Latin America
Journal Articles & Books
February, 2017
Latin America and the Caribbean
El Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
Argentina
Colombia
Peru
Secure land tenure in rural landscapes is widely recognized as an essential foundation for achieving a range of economic development goals. However, forest areas in low and middle-income countries face particular challenges in strengthening the security of land and resource tenure. Forest peoples are often among the poorest and most politically marginalized communities in their national contexts, and their tenure systems are often based on customary, collective rights that have insufficient formal legal protection.
Defenders of the Earth
Reports & Research
June, 2017
Global
2016 saw a record 200 killings of people defending their land, forests and rivers against destructive industries.
It has never been deadlier to take a stand against companies that steal land and destroy the environment. Our new report Defenders of the Earth found that nearly four people were murdered every week in 2016 protecting their land and the natural world from industries like mining, logging and agribusiness.
There are 3, 208 content items of different types and languages related to forest land on the Land Portal.
AGROVOC URI