Showing posts with label tenure rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tenure rights. Show all posts

12 March 2012

Despite recognition of indigenous land rights in Nicaragua, communities still losing out

While legislation that recognises indigenous territorial rights in Nicaragua represents a significant victory for local forest communities, many governance issues still have to be resolved if they want to keep control over access and use of their land and natural resources, says a new paper by the Center for International Forestry Research

By Gabriela Ramirez Galindo | Blog CIFOR | March 9, 2012
Photo courtesy of Elaine Faith/flickr.

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Fighting to survive

A small community in Southeast Sulawesi is engaged in an ongoing quest for recognition of its right to live on its ancestral land

Linda McRae and Dirk Tomsa | Inside Indonesia | 12 March 2012
mcrae1.jpgThe school in Hukaea-Laea. Linda McRae

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