India: Forest rights and wrongs
By: Bittu Sahgal
Date: November 15th 2016
Source: The Indian Express
There are 1, 177 content items of different types and languages related to forest management plans on the Land Portal.
Land Rights Now Initiative Supports Civil Society Opposition to Afforestation Bill in India
Source: Land Rights Now Campaign
As India’s upper house is currently debating a controversial afforestation bill, civil society groups across the country are expressing concerns that the bill would do more harm than good.
EU must stop supporting the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
Fern and Transparency International (TI) welcome the European Parliament resolution adopted on 7 June 2016, calling on the European Union (EU) to halt its support to the
Land tenure and livelihoods: What’s the connection?
By: Barbara Fraser
Date: May 16th 2016
Source: Forests News
New study finds that securing land rights doesn't always guarantee better livelihoods for communities in Peru, Indonesia and Uganda.
TIME FOR A RETHINK OF FOREST MANAGEMENT IN THE CONGO BASIN
27 November 2014
Source: Rainforest Foundation UK
Much of the commercial forest sector remains chaotic and badly governed. There is little evidence that ‘trickle-down’ wealth distribution from either logging or strict conservation has ever materialised, a view that is supported by recent independent evaluations of some of the main international backers of these sectors[1].