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

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Progress towards SDG Land Degradation Restoration Commitments

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

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To Avert the Next Humanitarian Crisis, Empower Women and Girls

May 19, 2023

Women and girls are resilient agents of change – and their potential to respond to all crises, from conflict to climate change, is accelerated when they enjoy secure rights to land.

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United Nations committee publishes landmark statement on land and human rights

February 07, 2023

This General Comment marks a historic juncture: the first comprehensive statement from a human rights treaty-monitoring body on the relationship between land and human rights.

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At COP27, a Call to Root Climate Action and Justice in Land Rights for Women and Rural Communities

November 07, 2022

In Bangladesh’s Sundarbans, life revolves around coastal mangrove forests. But as climate change effects worsen, livelihoods are under threat. Read about what global actors at COP27 can do amid the deepening climate crisis.

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