Weak Land Rights Worldwide Promote Land Rush

[S. Kritikos]

Folks,

a very interesting new study by the Rights and Resources Initiative:

Turning Point: What future for forest peoples and resources in the
emerging world order?
http://www.rightsandresources.org/documents/quarantined/turningpoint.php

PDF 36p. An excerpt from the PR:

"New studies released in London today suggest that the frenzied
sell-off of forests and other prime lands to buyers hungry for the
developing world’s natural
resources risk sparking widespread civil unrest—unless national
leaders and investors
recognize the customary rights of millions of poor people who have
lived on and worked these
lands for centuries.

“'Controversial land acquisitions were a key factor triggering the
civil wars in Sudan, Liberia and
Sierra Leone, and there is every reason to be concerned that
conditions are ripe for new
conflicts to occur in many other places,' said Jeffrey Hatcher,
director of global programs for the
Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), which sponsored an expert panel
today at the Royal
Society on the trends shaping rural lands and rights worldwid"

Also:

Rights and Resources Initiative
http://www.rightsandresources.org/
https://twitter.com/#!/RightsResources

Regards
S. (Sam) Kritikos