land rights Archives

Indigenous knowledge for the future – a talk with community leader Mama Aleta

Feature / Lauded indigenous leader from West Timur Mama Aleta recently spoke with SEI, urging the use of Indigenous knowledge to meet today's environmental challenges.

7 November 2019 / About Food and agriculture, Land use, Participation and Public policy

Indigenous Peoples of Southeast Asia reaffirm their rights

Perspective / The lands and livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples in Southeast Asia face mounting threats. Their knowledge and rights are vital to addressing these threats.

28 October 2019 / About Adaptation, Food and agriculture, Participation, Public policy and Sustainable lifestyles

Recovering from Typhoon Haiyan: planned resettlement displaces farming communities

Feature / Resettlement planning after the devastating Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines has led to displacement of farmers that had been living on land for generations.

30 September 2019 / About Adaptation, Cities, Climate policy, Disaster risk, Participation and Public policy

The Swedish mining sector in sustainable futures

SEI report / How do the Swedish mining sector and wider society interact, and how can the sector adapt to a sustainable transformation?

28 May 2019 / About Business, Land use, Public policy and Supply chains

Photo - of a member of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST), wearing a mask - Marcello Casal JR/ABr on Wikimedia CC3.

Brazil’s landless movement and rights ‘from below’

Journal article / This study considers how agrarian movements develop and apply their own rights discourses to further demands for social justice.

15 September 2018 / About Land use and Participation

Photo shows women standing in a river, fishing in East Timor

Bringing rights into resilience: revealing complexities of climate risks and social conflict

Journal article / Find out how resilience practice can take better account of equity and power issues by paying greater attention to social contexts.

6 August 2018 / About Disaster risk and Participation

Solutions and innovations for a sustainable future at the SEI Science Forum 2018

Feature / Find out how participants and collaborators from the SEI Science Forum are visualising and enabling action on the Sustainable Development Goals.

20 June 2018 / About Climate policy, Fossil fuels, Innovation and Sustainable Development Goals

Can the wrongs be righted? Prospects for remedy in the Philippine oil palm agro‐industry

Journal article / Read one of the first detailed examinations of the growing oil palm sector in the Philippines.

21 May 2018 / About Food and agriculture, Land use and Participation

Do voluntary corporate actions improve cumulative effects assessment? Mining companies’ performance on Sami lands

Journal article / How far has reliance on voluntary action improved mining companies' assessments of cumulative effects on indigenous peoples and their land use?

5 May 2018 / About Business, Land use, Participation, Pollution and Supply chains