Archived Postings

• Redd-Monitor.org: Turning Point: What future for forest peoples and resources in the emerging world order?
  February 02, 2012
• Daily Trust (Nigeria): Africa: Weak Land Rights Promote Land Rush
  February 02, 2012
• Forest Carbon Portal: Turning Point: What future for forest peoples and resources in the emerging world order?
  February 02, 2012
• Prensa Latina: Land Sales Propel Civil Wars, Experts Warn
  February 01, 2012
• The Guardian: Global Land Grab Could Trigger Conflict, Report Says
  February 01, 2012
• Radio France International: Les droits fonciers des communautés africaines en danger
  February 01, 2012
• Bloomberg: Africa Land Purchases May Spark Rights Discord, Group Says
  February 01, 2012
• Voice of America: Lack of Land Rights Could Lead to Land Rush
  February 01, 2012
• Associated Press: Liberian residents say foreign firm threatens their land rights
  February 01, 2012
• Reuters AlertNet: Weak land rights in Africa fuel potential for conflicts
  February 01, 2012
• Science Codex : Warning of unrest, new study shows millions risk losing lands in Africa
  February 01, 2012
• Nature: African Land Grabs Hinder Sustainable Development
  February 01, 2012

• Grain.org: GRAIN calls for end to land grabbing at Swedish Parliament
  December 15, 2011
• REDD-Monitor.org: Investing in Communities is the most effective way of reducing deforestation
  December 15, 2011
• Anthropology News: Forest Tenure Reform in Indonesia
  December 09, 2011
• New Scientist News: Durban 2011 - Urgent warning on tropical deforestation
  December 08, 2011
• UN-REDD News: Central African and Donor Partner Countries Announce a Joint Declaration of Intent on REDD+ in the Congo Basin
  December 07, 2011
• Antara News: Rights Body Proposes Special Board to Handle Land Disputes
  December 02, 2011

• EIA International: Villagers Face Off Against Palm Oil Firm's Bulldozers
  November 28, 2011
• CIFOR Forests Blog: Fears About Community Rights Under REDD+ Are Justified Despite Tenure Reforms
  November 21, 2011
• BBC News: Brazil Indigenous Guarani Leader Lisio Gomes Killed
  November 21, 2011

• BBC: Interview with Nigerian forest activist, Odigha Odigha
  October 25, 2011
• World Resources Institute: Announcing the World Resources Report 2010-2011
  October 20, 2011
• CCMIN : Eleventh RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change
  October 17, 2011
• Reuters AlertNet: Forest protection efforts faltering
  October 12, 2011
• Mongabay: Should Public or Private Money Finance Efforts to Save Forests? Two Experts Weigh In
  October 12, 2011
• Forest Carbon Asia: 11th RRI Dialogue on Forests Begins
  October 11, 2011
• Ecosystem Marketplace: 11th RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change Tomorrow
  October 11, 2011
• Down to Earth: Forest Department is the Encroacher
  October 04, 2011
• IPS News: Women Left Out of U.N. Forest Plan
  October 04, 2011
• Reuters AlertNet: Uprooting Families to Save Trees
  October 04, 2011
• The International: Developing Countries United Under UN Agency to Counter Deforestation
  October 03, 2011

• CIFOR: President Calls on Businesses to Unite and Protect Indonesia's Forests
  September 28, 2011
• Guardian: Oxfam warns of spiraling land grab in developing countries
  September 22, 2011
• The New York Times: In Honduras, Land Struggles Highlight Post-Coup Polarization
  September 20, 2011

• NPR: A Battle Is Under Way For The Forests Of Borneo
  August 22, 2011
• Deutsche Welle: Indigenous Indonesians Fear Forest Sell-Off
  August 16, 2011
• Deutsche Welle: Forest groups say Indonesia should look to Chinese model
  August 15, 2011
• REDD-Monitor: Guest Post: Women Remain Outside the Global Forest Estate
  August 11, 2011
• UN: International Day of the World's Indigenous People
  August 09, 2011
• Reuters AlertNet: Jakarta Must Set Up Forest Bodies to Unblock Aid - Norway
  August 01, 2011
• Africa Review: Cameroon Meeting Declares Women's Interests in Land
  August 01, 2011

• NY Times: New Rule Would Allow Tribes to Gather Plants, Minerals From National Parks
  July 28, 2011
• US Department of State: Joint Statement of the Second Indonesia-U.S. Joint Commission Meeting Bali, Indonesia
  July 27, 2011
• Missoulian: Foresters from Around World Studying Montana Timber Management
  July 26, 2011
• Missoulian: International Forest Managers Heading to Lubrecht to Learn about Montana's Management Policies
  July 25, 2011
• IPS: Indonesians Await Forest Tenure Reform
  July 22, 2011
• IPS: 'Participatory Map Vital for Indonesia’s Environment Plans'
  July 22, 2011
• Development and Change: ‘The Law is to Blame’: The Vulnerable Status of Common Property Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
  July 21, 2011
• Forest Carbon Asia: UPK4 Kuntoro’s Keynote Speech on Tenure Reform in RI
  July 19, 2011
• ClimateWire: Indonesia Announces 'Unprecedented' Expansion of Land Rights
  July 18, 2011
• NCN Guyana: Forest ownership can significantly improve people’s lives - FAO
  July 15, 2011
• Reuters AlertNet: Forest Carbon Rights for Poor at Risk – Study
  July 15, 2011
• Asia Times Online: Jakarta rethinks forest policy
  July 15, 2011
• Terra Daily: Lack of Meaningful Land Rights Threaten Indonesian Forests
  July 14, 2011
• IPS: Activists Press for Gender Equality in Forest Tenure Reforms
  July 14, 2011
• Reuters AlertNet: Indonesia pledges to resolve forest land conflicts
  July 13, 2011
• AFP: Indonesia's pledge to forest people welcomed
  July 13, 2011
• Eco-Business: Forestry experts say forest communities have the best hope of sustainably managing the world's forests
  July 13, 2011
• Mongabay.com: Indonesia to recognize rights of forest communities, indigenous peoples
  July 13, 2011
• IPS: Expanding Land Rights to Boost Growth, Cut Emissions
  July 13, 2011
• ASIA: Indigenous People gain greater forest rights
  July 12, 2011
• Forestry and Development: Carbon Markets Contracting
  July 11, 2011
• EKantipur.com: Forest Ministry Withdraws Amendment Bill
  July 11, 2011
• Mongabay: Community Control, Rather than Government Control, Helps Forests Recover, Says Study
  July 07, 2011
• UEA Debate: Does REDD+ make international forestry more just?
  July 06, 2011

• Guardian UK: Forests in danger as study warns UN funding is unlikely
  June 28, 2011
• Nature: Misconceptions About Forest-Dwellers Overturned
  June 20, 2011
• SIFI: Institutional Reform, ‘Quality’ Growth, May Help Sustain World’s Natural Resources
  June 13, 2011
• ICTSD: Sustainable Tropical Forest Initiatives Receive Mixed Report
  June 13, 2011
• Discovery News: Protection Gives Mighty Boost to Few Forests
  June 09, 2011
• BBC: Tropical Forests "Better Managed"
  June 08, 2011
• Financial Times: Sustainable forests rise by 50%, says study
  June 08, 2011
• Mongabay: 90% of Tropical Forests Managed Poorly or Not at All
  June 07, 2011
• TIME: Good News and Bad News for the World's Tropical Forests
  June 07, 2011
• The Himalayan Times: Minister Joshi Hints to Scrape Second Amendment of Forest Act
  June 03, 2011

• IWGIA: The Indigenous World 2011
  May 31, 2011
• White House: US-UK Partnership for Global Development
  May 31, 2011
• BBC: Brazil Eases Rules on Conserving Amazon Rainforest
  May 26, 2011
• REDD-Monitor: Interview with Andy White, Rights and Resources Initiative
  May 24, 2011
• UN: Tenth Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
  May 18, 2011
• Amazonian Indigenous Organizations Define Position on REDD+
  May 06, 2011

• Washington Post: Global Well-Being: Rooted in the World's Forests
  April 28, 2011
• FIAN International: United Nations under Pressure to Denounce Human Rights Abuses in Carbon Offsetting Scheme
  April 21, 2011
• Mongabay: Scientists urge Papua New Guinea to declare moratorium on massive forest clearing
  April 20, 2011
• The Himalayan Times: Forest Act Amendment Bill in Limbo
  April 18, 2011
• Nairobi Star: Shamba System Good for Forests, Experts Says
  April 14, 2011
• TIME: Palm Oil Plantations Equal Deforestation
  April 13, 2011
• Hindustan Times: 10,000 Tribals March into City for Land Rights
  April 13, 2011
• Phnom Penh Post: SRP to Lodge Prey Lang Complaint
  April 13, 2011

• Mongabay: Involving Communities in Forest Governance Boosts Biodiversity, Local Income
  March 30, 2011
• Police and Army in Peru convicted in "Baguazo" clash
  March 28, 2011
• Nature: Cash Alone Will Not Slow Forest Carbon Emissions
  March 16, 2011
• Dartmouth College: Climate Justice Research Project Scholarly Note
  March 14, 2011
• Deutsche Welle Radio: Giving Forest Dwellers a Greater Say Over Their Territory
  March 03, 2011
• Collective Partnership on Forests via CIFOR: Climate change highlights need for women to take greater role in forest management, experts say ahead of International Women's Day
  March 02, 2011
• DFID: Rights and tenure highlighted as priority items in new UK aid report
  March 02, 2011

• AFP: Mexico's forest dwellers carve out a future in trees
  February 22, 2011
• International Land Coalition: Top Forestry Experts at London Event Present Evidence, Warn of Further Displacements and Land Grabs in 2011
  February 22, 2011
• Mongabay.com: Slow but steady progress on recognizing indigenous land rights is interrupted by commodity boom
  February 10, 2011
• Mongabay.com: Rising land, food prices cause recognition of indigenous peoples' rights to stagnate
  February 09, 2011
• Nature: Land Grabs Intensify as Local Rights Are Disregarded
  February 09, 2011
• Reuters UK: Keeping forest dwellers involved in forest protection and REDD
  February 08, 2011
• TreeHugger.com: Indigenous Communities Fighting For Land Rights More Than Ever - Governments & Corporations Fighting Back
  February 08, 2011
• Financial Times: Tackle Export Bans To Ease Food Crisis
  February 03, 2011
• Guardian UK: Brazilian president's promises crumble under weight of Belo Monte dam
  February 01, 2011