Unclear and/or insecure forest tenure has been identified by many as an indirect driver of deforestation and forest degradation. Consequently, reforming tenure is considered an important measure in order to control deforestation...
Land is a scarce resource increasingly affected by the competition of mutually exclusive uses. Fertile land in rural areas becomes scarcer due to population growth, pollution, erosion and desertification, effects of climate change...
Land is fundamental to the lives of poor rural people. It is a source of food, shelter, income and social identity. Secure access to land reduces vulnerability to hunger and poverty. But for many of the world’s extremely poor...
This op-ed by Olivier de Schutter was published on the International Land Coalition website on 12. January 2011 [12 January 2011] Op-Ed - BRUSSELS: In the international discussion surrounding the phenomenon referred to as ‘land...
Past experiences with (forest) conservation projects and Payments for Environmental Services (PES) have shown that without addressing tenure, efforts are likely to be ineffective. People without or with weak tenure were not...
In Sida‟s Working Group for Land Issues commissioned this study with the purpose to "map out Sida‟s land interventions and make a synthesis of conclusions and lessons learnt from previous reviews, so as to improve the...
Forest concessions can be very large, and currently concessions of more than 1 million hectares (in a single block) can be found in Congo (Brazzaville) and DR Congo. If one considers the cumulated area a group can have in the...
Assessment and appraisal of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in land in view of food security
Challenges for Global Governance