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From Recognition to Resilience: Land Rights and Sustainable Futures in Gujarat’s Forests

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By: Leah Kellenberger Across 12 countries, Cadasta’s Strengthening Land and Forest Rights (SLFR) Program, funded by the UK International Development, from the UK government, is partnering with 13 organizations to advance secure land and forest rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities. This program aims to secure management or ownership rights for forest-dwelling communities, as…

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Forests Don’t Need Saving. They Need Recognition.

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By Cadasta Staff Three Key Lessons After Ten Years of Work  Each year, the International Day of Forests (March 21st) arrives with urgent warnings of accelerating deforestation, biodiversity loss, and forests under pressure from climate change, extractive industries, and weak governance. The proposed solutions are often technical or financial, involving greater monitoring, additional offsets, and…

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What We Learned from Supporting the Mapping of Millions of Hectares: Lessons from Indonesia, Myanmar, and India

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By Cadasta Staff Around the world, efforts to document land and forest rights are routinely slowed by outdated systems that rely on paper sketch maps, handwritten forms, disconnected spreadsheets, and months or even years of manual digitization. According to recent global estimates, up to 90% of landholdings in developing countries remain undocumented. This gap is…

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Op-Ed: Land Rights: The Missing Pillar for Climate Resilience at COP30

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COP30 has come to a close, leaving behind a landscape that is both promising and unfinished. While land and resource rights did not dominate every negotiation or headline, the summit did deliver meaningful steps forward with the launch of the Intergovernmental Land Tenure Commitment (ILTC) and the renewed Forest & Land Tenure Pledge - both…

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