The arduous land tenure process for Quilombola communities might be one reason for the result. When Benzeev began collecting data on forest coverage change in Quilombola territories, ...

Indigenous leaders from around the world are heading to the COP26 United Nations climate summit this weekend, where one of the main topics on their agenda will be highlighting community land ...

Several governments and private funders have announced at the COP26 United Nations climate summit plan to invest US $1.7 billion to support Indigenous and local communities’ land tenure and ...

In Kenya there’s increasing individualisation of land tenure in pastoral areas. This will hurt the communities in the long term because it doesn’t enhance sustainable productive practices.

According to the Swiss-based International Organization for Migration (IOM), some 12,000 refugees have been forced out of tent camps since evictions began in earnest over the summer, and 87,000 ...

IN a valuable survey entitled Studies in Tropical Land Tenure (Government Printing Office, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Price 2s.), Dr. H. Martin Leake shows that the most striking feature of the ...

Object Details Author Hickerson, Harold 1923-Summary The land tenure of northeastern Algonkians has been the subject of discussion and controversy over the past 50 years, since Speck first began ...

There is coexistence of many sources of law imbricating and overlapping land tenure. The formalized land tenure has less than 7,000 land titles issued. ... the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), ...

Even though this study didn’t detect an immediate forest benefit from land tenure among quilombolas, the researchers note that securing land rights for these communities may still be crucial. Forests ...