Land news

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Earth Focus: For the Love of the Land
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Here's how to reverse Africa's land degradation
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Wet weather curbs forest loss in 2021 but world far off ending it
In Depth
Land to lose: coronavirus compounds debt crisis in Cambodia
In Depth
Flight to the future:One land's quest to defuse climate 'timebomb'
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As war and climate change bite, are high food prices here to stay?
Charging for wasted water helps Kenyan farmers get a fair share
Malaria surges in the Amazon as mining devours indigenous land
As climate change floods U.S. land, islands fight for public money
As sea levels rise, can Chesapeake Bay's Tangier Island survive?
In Brazil, satellites help scientists target Amazon forest losses
Asian farmers turn to tech for labour, climate challenges
New Indonesian capital excludes indigenous, poor
Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now
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'Catastrophic' wildfire risk is growing. Here's how to cut it
analysis
Indigenous lawyers in Brazil take on Bolsonaro's weakened watchdog
Colombia's indigenous train youth to defend Amazon rainforest
How indigenous culture protects Colombia's rainforest
India's forest-planting push leaves indigenous women in the cold
From stormwater to farms, U.S. cities put empty lots to use
Human Rights Watch says Bolsonaro a threat to democracy in Brazil
Peru community to attend mine blockade meet
Peru communities, Hochschild on collision path over mine closures
U.S. diversity push for lawyers, agents to tackle housing crisis
Uncontacted Amazon tribes endangered in Peru, Brazil
South African plan to allow land expropriation fails to pass
Land disputes, climate change pressure Turkish nomads to settle
Uganda moves to protect vanishing wetlands as floods worsen
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What is 'green land grabbing' - and why is it surging in Brazil?
Indigenous group seeks stake in new Australian gas project
Indian farmers in no mood to forgive after Modi's reform U-turn
India's Modi backs down on farm reforms
In Ivory Coast, a battle to save cocoa-ravaged forests
Why U.S. community forests are taking root
COP26 rules on carbon markets may leave indigenous people exposed
Nature, climate protection pledges mount at COP26, amid past fails
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Fossil fuel-free future not impossible but disinformation a threat
Ensuring indigenous rights key as forest carbon investments grow
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Will COP26 deforestation pledge be game-changer or broken promise?
'Stripped away': Growing push on land justice for Black Americans
Wine faces a climate-imperiled future in Georgia
'Giving life to dying land': Solar pumps quench thirsty farms
Canada's Trudeau visits First Nations community to make amends
Rio Tinto inquiry proposes Aboriginal heritage protection rules
Agri-tech digital tools boost crops for farmers across Africa
Indian anti-mining protesters revive resistance to protect forest
New World Heritage Site forest imperils Thai indigenous people
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About our Land coverage

We shine a light on how land and property rights can empower communities worldwide.

Opinion

Tizai Mauto Landesa

Give land rights to youth to boost rural economies

Helping young people access land allows them to participate in rural economies while making progress on gender equity, food security, and adaptation to climate change
Malcolm Childress and Anna Locke Prindex

To save forests, recognize local and indigenous land rights now

Many forest projects fail because they neglect to include and pay the people who own, live and work on the land
Santiago Gowland Rainforest Alliance

Let's show our children we can do more than talk on climate change

Investing in nature can help shift the climate crisis
William Pollen Invest in Africa

Build inclusive African economies now to stop rising inequality

Despite signs of the economic tailspin slowing, analysts see a fragile future for even more of Africa’s most vulnerable income groups

In Depth

explainer
As conflict and climate change bite, are high food prices here to stay?
As sea levels rise, can Chesapeake Bay's Tangier Island survive?
Colombia's Amazon indigenous groups train youth to defend rainforest
Defending the Amazon: How indigenous culture protects Colombia's rainforest

Videos & Pictures

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Walking in two worlds
Somaliland: One land's quest to defuse a climate 'timebomb'
Guardians of the Forest
Uprooted: the long way home
The New Lairds - Scotland's Land Reformers
Sea Of Plenty?

Editor's Picks

As climate change floods U.S. coast, islands fight for public money
In Brazil, satellites help scientists track - and prosecute - Amazon deforestation
'Useless for us': New Indonesian capital excludes indigenous, poor
Land disputes, climate change pressure Turkish nomads to settle