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TURNING POINT: What future for forest peoples and resources in the emerging world order?

By: Rights and Resources Initiative

BBC World News Interview with Andy White, 1 Feb 2012

Report

Turning Point: What future for forest peoples and resources in the emerging world order? (PDF, 1.98 MB) (author: Rights and Resources Initiative)

Available in French, English, and Spanish

Issue Briefs

Reviewing the Fate of Customary Tenure in Africa (PDF, 7.5 MB) (author: Liz Alden Wily)
Available in French and English

  1. Customary Land Tenure in the Modern World
  2. Putting 20th-Century Land Policies in Perspective
  3. Land Reform in Africa: A Reappraisal
  4. The Status of Customary Land Rights in Africa Today
  5. The Global Land Rush: What It Means for Customary Rights

Press Release

Press Release: Studies Suggest Weak Land Rights Worldwide Promote Land Rush; In Africa, Lands of Estimated 480 Million Viewed as “Un-owned”

 

Press Release: In response to February 3, 2012 press release by Sime Darby Berhard “False and Inaccurate Reports on Liberian Operations.”

 

Cameroonian boy hunting for fruit in the forest illustrates how local communities derive livelihoods from customary land rights, which would be taken from them when the rights are transferred to investors for other uses.
Cameroonian boy hunting for fruit in the forest illustrates how local communities derive livelihoods from customary land rights, which would be taken from them when the rights are transferred to investors for other uses.
 
Photo Credit: Jeff Haskins/ Burness Communications

Related Resources on Situation in Liberia

Related Resources on REDD and Carbon Market

Tenure Trends - Does Global Carbon Market Work? (RRI)

REDD and Forest Carbon: Market-based Critiques and Recommendations (The Munden Project)

Speaker Biographies (PDF, 22KB)

  • Alfred Brownell, Director, Green Advocates, Liberia
  • David Deng, Research Director, South Sudan Law Society, South Sudan
  • Tom Griffiths, Coordinator, Responsible Finance Programme, Forest Peoples Programme 
  • Jeff Hatcher, Director of Global Programs, Rights and Resources Initiative
  • Lou Munden, Founder, The Munden Project
  • Andy White, President, Rights and Resources Group
  • Moderated by Fred Pearce, journalist and author of the upcoming book, The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth     

About Rights and Resources Initiative

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