This report provides a critical update to the 2017 Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) analysis Power and Potential. It evaluates the extent to which national laws, as of 2024, recognize the specific community forest rights of Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local community women. The analysis covers 35 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America that encompass about 80 percent of forests in these three regions and 42 percent of global forest area.

South Africa's Expropriation Act of 2024, is at the centre of international controversy following lobbying by Afriforum and punitive actions by US President Donald Trump. We analyse the key arguments presented in a small selection of the numerous recent articles curated on knowledgebase.land (KBL).

In the past two months Knowledgebase.land (KBL) has carried links to news highlighting recent developments in the region's mining sector across five countries. Our analysis covers recent reporting on extraction activities, economic impacts, and policy changes from Zambia to South Africa. Join us as we provide critical insights into the current state of mining in Southern Africa.

Land tenure security (LTS) is a concept that informs many programmes by international development agencies working on land governance. The thinking behind these programmes, in short, is that land right holders are insecure in their land tenure, which prevents them from using their land sustainably and efficiently. Increasing their tenure security will allow for e.g. a reduction in conflicts over land, higher investment into the productive use of their land, and the implementation of more sustainable land-use practices.

The study on collective tenure rights and climate action in sub-Saharan Africa aims to consolidate and analyse the state of the evidence on how tenure arrangements – in particular collective ownership and management of forests operating in complex systems of contingent factors – impact forest condition outcomes, as well as livelihood outcomes of forest dwellers in sub-Saharan Africa.

Land tenure security is a concept that informs land governance interventions. In short, the thinking is that tenure security will lead to positive economic, environmental and social impacts and hence to improved livelihoods for the land right holders. The evidence on the causality between strengthened tenure security and livelihoods is not conclusive. Findings are ambiguous regarding the effects on productivity, access to credit, land market functioning and climate resilience.

Les écosystèmes de mangroves, reconnus pour leurs nombreux biens et services, font face

La forêt sacrée de Badjamè (Aplahoué, Couffo) ne bénéficie presque d’aucune mesure de protection et de gestion malgré son importance écologique. La présente étude met un accent sur la diversité des espèces végétales de cette forêt au Bénin en vue de proposer les stratégies de gestion et de conservation durable de cette forêt sacrée. Une prospection de terrain nous a permis d’observer la physionomie générale de la forêt sacrée et de ses zones connexes. Des sites d’inventaire floristique ont été retenus. Les relevés phytosociologiques ont été faits dans 35 placeaux de 30 m x 30 m chacun.