Explore the connection between land rights and climate justice
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Land Rights, Climate Change, and Environmental Stewardship
Vanishing Land: Climate Change, Slow-Onset Disasters, and Land Rights
Secure Land Rights: A Tool for Strengthening Food Security and Climate Resilience in the Global South
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Land rights for women flips the script of gendered power—it challenges patriarchy at its root, by fundamentally changing women’s economic, social, and political status. And key to climate action, research shows efforts to protect biodiversity and address climate change are more successful when women have strong land rights.
As carbon markets take center stage, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities' land and resource rights must be secured to protect people and planet. Landesa is uniquely positioned to do just that.
Research
Women Gaining Ground: Securing Land Rights as a Critical Pillar of Climate Change Strategy
Land Tenure as a Critical Consideration for Climate Change-Related Displacement in Slow-Onset Disaster Zones
Land Rights for People in Rural Areas Can Improve Forest Management, Halt Deforestation
News
To Safeguard Africa’s Forests, Protect Local Land Rights
May 31, 2024
Africa’s forests and natural areas are an indispensable collective resource. Capably stewarded by the communities that have called these areas home for centuries, these forests can continue to ensure livelihoods while serving as a bulwark against climate change.
Read ArticleThe Right to Steward: Protecting People and Planet in Asia’s Mangrove Forests
May 07, 2024
The lives of Chumpou Khmao’s residents are woven into the roots of their mangrove forests. With the support necessary to gain secure rights, they can steward their forests to flourish for generations.
Read ArticleNature-based carbon offsetting project incentives: An unintended form of social harm?
December 04, 2023
Nature-based emission-reduction projects must ensure that their benefit sharing arrangements properly account for and transparently compensate local stakeholders for their labor and resources used in planting and managing trees.
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