Advancing forest landscape restoration worldwide
How Could Land Tenure Security Affect Conservation?
By Yuta Masuda and Brian E. Robinson
I’m sitting in a Mongolian yurt, listening to and trying to emulate Bataa’s* songs about love for the grasslands and the wide, treeless plains of the Mongolian Plateau. Our host sings with consuming passion. I might have brushed his enthusiasm off as a show two weeks ago. But after living and working in these grasslands, the feeling of freedom that comes from unobstructed, far-off distant horizon is infectious.
Q&A: Madhu Sarin on strengthening women’s land rights in India
By Madhu Sarin, Fellow of the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)
Q: What is required to strengthen women’s land and community forest rights in practice in India?
Collective forest tenure reforms: Where do we go from here?
By Anne Larson, Principal Scientist, CIFOR
The recent World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, held this past March in Washington D.C., provided a unique opportunity to reflect on collective land tenure reforms not only from a research point of view, but also from that of governments.
Saving rainforest of the Congo Basin: gender, land rights & REDD+
This blog is written by Larissa Stiem and Focali member Torsten Krause based on results presented in their article “Exploring the impact of social norms and perception on women´s participation in customary forest and land gov
Common Land, Common Ground
By Justin Adams, Global Managing Director for Lands at The Nature Conservancy.
Edward Loure and The Nature Conservancy have a common story. The story is one of reducing conflict by finding common ground—in this case both literally and metaphorically.