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Explore the connection between land rights and climate justice

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Land Rights, Climate Change, and Environmental Stewardship

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Vanishing Land: Climate Change, Slow-Onset Disasters, and Land Rights

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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.

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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.

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Research

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Women Gaining Ground: Securing Land Rights as a Critical Pillar of Climate Change Strategy

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Land Tenure as a Critical Consideration for Climate Change-Related Displacement in Slow-Onset Disaster Zones

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Progress towards SDG Land Degradation Restoration Commitments

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Progress towards SDG Land Rights Commitments

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Land Rights for People in Rural Areas Can Improve Forest Management, Halt Deforestation

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Land Rights Matter for People and the Planet UNCCD Awareness-Raising Options Paper

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News

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Nature-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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No Climate Justice Without “Us”

November 27, 2023

Civil society representatives across Asia and Africa met in Dhaka this October to talk about the growing impact of climate change on land-based rural people across Asia and Africa. They crafted the ‘Dhaka Declaration,’ which calls on governments to center rural people, including women, youth, and Indigenous Peoples, in climate change policy.

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To Feed the World, Farmers Need Rights to the Land They Till

October 27, 2023

Strong land rights are a crucial prerequisite to the climate resilience and sustainable land management necessary to bolster food security and reach zero hunger.

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