November 22, 2012
We spent this week with Peruvian partners in co-development and training sessions, hosted by CEPES. This is a data-rich and data-diverse environment, where partners prefer to refer to "land transactions" than "land deals". Often land titles are traded between Peruvian investors
By: Angela K. Evans
Date: February 12th 2016
Source: Boulder Weekly
Fighting deforestation in the Congo Basin by giving voice to indigenous people
“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”
By: Duncan Gromko
Date: May 2nd 2016
Source: The Guardian
Ethiopia has confirmed its commitment to restore its degraded lands to improve food security and biodiversity. Now, it’s looking to the private sector for support.
By: Morgan Erickson-Davis
Date: August 3rd 2016
Source: Mongabay
After years of rising deforestation rates, Myanmar is temporarily banning logging activity until March 2017.
Myanmar lost 5 percent of its tree cover from 2001 through 2014, with rates scaling upward over that time.
By: May Titthara
Date: September 27th 2016
Source: Khmer Times
Despite numerous laws and committees created to tackle deforestation and illegal logging in Cambodia, the timber trade has continued unabated.
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
By: Callistasia Anggun Wijaya
Date: January 27th 2016
Source: Jakarta Post
The criminalization and discrimination of indigenous people by the government and other parties has worsened, especially because no regulation protects their rights, says the Alliance of Indigenous People (AMAN).
By: Siddharth Ranjan Das
Date: February 27th 2016
Source: NDTV
SARGUJA: Deep inside Chhattisgarh's Hasdeo Arand forest, the silence of the woods is broken by the mechanical sounds of coal mine workers cutting trees near the Ghatbarra village of Sarguja district.
But around 300 tribal families
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Author: Ange Aboa
Ivorian security forces have driven thousands of cocoa farmers out of a national park this week at the start of an operation to preserve the refuge for endangered chimpanzees and forest elephants, a government source and locals said on Thursday.
By: Joe Bavier
Date: 19 September 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Rights groups have accused Ivory Coast authorities of failing to provide a minimum level of support when they evicted tens of thousands of illegal cocoa farmers from a national park, leaving them vulnerable and putting
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: October 6th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Communities that own the territory are more likely to conserve the forest than other land users
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giving indigenous people land title deeds is one of the most cost-
By: Sophie Tremblay & Willy Lowry
Date: 4 January 2017
Source: Pacific Standard
Yaeda Valley in Tanzania is home to the Hadzabe, one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer tribes in the world, and they are using carbon trading to save their forests.
YAEDA VALLEY, TANZANIA — “Carbon,” says Mzee