Tag: land rights
Webinar: The hidden side of conservation: voices from the ground.
Wildlife and forest conservation policies violate the basic rights of local and indigenous communities that inhabit protected areas, in addition to displacing them and criminalizing their struggles in the name …
Sengwers Feeling the Heat in The Embobut Forest
By Dean Puckett. When Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, visited Kenya earlier this month, he reportedly urged the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to sort out Kenya’s historical land …
Liberia: Uncertain futures. The impacts of Sime Darby on communities
By Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor. Liberia, a small West African country with a population of approximately 3.5 million people, has a predominantly agrarian economy, with high dependency on land and land based …
EJOLT on a forest field trip in Brazil
By Rikard Warlenius We’re bumping on a sand road in Carlos’ trade union car. On the left side straight rows of 15-meter high eucalyptus trees are passing by. The plantation – …
