Recognizing Indigenous and Community Land Rights: Priority Steps to Advance Development and Mitigate Climate Change.

Another new report, this time by Tebtebba:  Recognizing Indigenous and Community Land Rights: Priority Steps to Advance Development and Mitigate Climate Change.
This report demonstrates how recognizing community land rights is a cost-effective way to address a host of social, environmental, and development challenges.
Interestingly, despite the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines for Responsible Governance of Tenure,

research shows that there has been a global “slowdown” in the legal recognition of community land rights since 2008. Between 2002 and 2007, approximately three times more pro-community legislation was passed than between 2008 and 2013, and the legislation passed in the second period was substantively weaker, with no cases of legislation recognizing rights of ownership.

No Comments

Post A Comment