Ethiopia's farmers fight devastating drought with land restoration
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'This is not empty forest’: Africa’s palm oil surge builds in Cameroon
By: John C. Cannon
Date: March 30th 2016
Source: Mongabay
Palm oil production is intensifying in Cameroon, leaving many worried about the country’s forests — and the wildlife and communities that depend on them.
- Industrial palm oil production is spreading out from Southeast Asia, with several African countries experiencing plantation booms in recent years.
India: Forest Rights Axed For Coal Mine, Allege Tribals In Chhattisgarh
By: Siddharth Ranjan Das
Date: February 27th 2016
Source: NDTV
SARGUJA: Deep inside Chhattisgarh's Hasdeo Arand forest, the silence of the woods is broken by the mechanical sounds of coal mine workers cutting trees near the Ghatbarra village of Sarguja district.
But around 300 tribal families in the village allege what is also being wrecked is the law that assured them first rights to the forest.
India: Chhattisgarh govt cancels tribal rights over forest lands
By: Nitin Sethi
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: Business Standard
Forest Rights Act allows government to divert forest lands for other purposes only after prior consent of the tribals through gram sabhas
Congo Basin: The Forest is Crying
By: Angela K. Evans
Date: February 12th 2016
Source: Boulder Weekly
Fighting deforestation in the Congo Basin by giving voice to indigenous people
“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”
How indigenous land rights factor into climate goals
By: Max Lewontin
Date: February 4th 2016
Source: Christian Science Monitor
A panel of forest policy groups pressed for more action Wednesday, saying the public and the private sector could help raise awareness about the toll efforts to designate forests as 'protected' or increase agricultural production can have on indigenous people.
Indonesia: Criminalization, discrimination against indigenous people worsening: AMAN
By: Callistasia Anggun Wijaya
Date: January 27th 2016
Source: Jakarta Post
The criminalization and discrimination of indigenous people by the government and other parties has worsened, especially because no regulation protects their rights, says the Alliance of Indigenous People (AMAN).
International Course on Governance of Landscapes, Forests and People: Deadline for Scholarships 20 October
Forested landscapes worldwide are increasingly integrated in global processes of trade, market development, resource exploitation and climate change. Site-based or community level approaches can no longer cope with these issues which exceed the local sphere of influence. Although landscapes are usually considered to be appropriate levels to negotiate land use options, they are rarely recognised as units of political- administrative decision making, hence do not have any formal place in decentralised structures of states.