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December 16, 2024

STATEMENT: Desertification COP Produces Mixed Results on Land and Drought

land use
land rights
Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
WRI Africa pillar
Climate Resilience

land use
land rights
Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
WRI Africa pillar
Climate Resilience

Equity & Governance

Research

February 11, 2021

On Equal Ground: Promising Practices for Realizing Women’s Rights in Collectively Held Lands

Equity & Governance

Initiatives

January 17, 2020

Defending Earth’s Defenders Initiative

Silas Matoke and his wife Yordana Yawate, pose for photograph as they harvesting sago known as 'pangkur' on the banks of the Tuba river in Honitetu village, West Seram regency, Maluku province, Indonesia on August 22, 2017.

Equity & Governance

Initiatives

January 17, 2020

Defending Earth’s Defenders Initiative

Silas Matoke and his wife Yordana Yawate, pose for photograph as they harvesting sago known as 'pangkur' on the banks of the Tuba river in Honitetu village, West Seram regency, Maluku province, Indonesia on August 22, 2017.

Insights

July 13, 2018

Disaster-Focused Headlines from the Congo Often Hide Signs of Progress

Equity & Governance
Forests
deforestation
human rights
land rights

Ilanga, Democratic Republic of Congo

Equity & Governance
Forests
deforestation
human rights
land rights

Equity & Governance

Research

March 20, 2018

A Fair Share for Women: Toward More Equitable Land Compensation and Resettlement in Tanzania and Mozambique

Equity & Governance

Research

June 13, 2016

Encroaching on Land and Livelihoods: How National Expropriation Laws Measure Up Against International Standards

Equity & Governance

Asia Africa Latin America

Research

July 23, 2014

Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change

Aerial view of the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Neil Palmer/CIAT

Equity & Governance

Initiatives

June 27, 2013

Land and Resource Rights

A man fishing on a boat in a river surrounded by fields.

Equity & Governance

Research

June 11, 2008

Protected Areas and Property Rights

Africa Asia Latin America

Research

January 15, 2007

Representation, Equity and Environment Working Paper Series

Research

April 1, 2001

Environmental Governance in Africa Working Paper Series

WRI Africa Regional Hub

Meskel Flower, Gabon Street
Fiesta Building 5th Floor
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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