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Recognition of customary tenure in the forest landscapes of the Mekong region (policy brief)

The policy brief, one of four briefs on the agrarian transition in the Mekong region, explores initiatives and pathways forward to recognise customary tenure arrangements and rights over forest areas in the region. More than 70 million people in the region depend on forest areas but lack formal legal rights to use, manage, and benefit from them. Forest landscapes represent just under half of the region’s total land. Yet, over the past two decades, the region has lost a significant amount of forest due to the expansion of commercial agriculture. Tenure security, specially recognition and protection of customary forest tenure, can greatly contribute not only to forest conservation and climate change mitigation but also to food security, poverty reduction, and economic development.

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Field Value
Document type Issue and policy briefs
Language of document
  • English
Short title (alternative/varying form of title) Customary tenure
Topics
  • Environment and natural resources policy and administration
  • Land
Geographic area (spatial range)
  • Mekong
Copyright Yes
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The views, opinions and interpretations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and contributors. They should not be interpreted as representing the official or unofficial views or positions of SDC, Germany or Luxembourg.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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Contact

Mekong Region Land Governance Unit 11, House No. 262, Ban Saphanthong Kang, Sisattanak District, Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR PO Box 2973, Vientiane Lao PDR 01000 info@mrlg.org +856 21 454 807

Co-author (individual) Jean-Christophe Diepart, Natalia Scurrah, Alice Beban, Christophe Gironde and Natalie Y. Campbell
Publisher Mekong Region Land Governance
Publication date 2024
Pagination 12
General note

The original report is available on the Mekong Region Land Governance platform: https://www.mrlg.org/publications/state-of-land-in-the-mekong-region-3/

Keywords Customary Tenure Recognition,Indigenous People,Land administration,Protected area,Mekong
Date uploaded July 18, 2024, 07:48 (UTC)
Date modified July 22, 2024, 05:09 (UTC)