Closing the Gap: Strategies and Scale Needed to Secure Rights and Save Forests
Publisher: Rights and Resources Initiative
Date: 2016
Topics: Land, Renewable Resources
Countries: Congo (DRC), Indonesia, Liberia, Peru
Ten years ago, it was a struggle to make indigenous and community rights part of global discussions on forest conservation and climate change. By the close of 2015 it was clear that the case had been made. There is still much further to go, with millions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities lacking legal rights to the vast majority of their customary lands, putting at risk their livelihoods and the sustainability of hundreds of millions of hectares of forest.