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1 The Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights World Bank Land and Poverty Conference 16 March 2016

2 Why indigenous and community land rights matter for everyone

3 Big picture Up to 2.5 billion people worldwide Protecting more than 50% of world’s land surface But own just 10% (1/5)

4 For their rights More than 5000 distinct cultures and 4000 languages (2/3 of the world’s total) depend on Indigenous and community lands

5 For development Around half of rural households in India derive their resource from the commons 90% of Africa’s rural land is undocumented and this is directly linked with high poverty rates

6 In the Amazon, over the past 15 years, deforestation rates in indigenous territories have been less than 1/10 of those in the rest of the Amazon region. Map: RRI, WRI (2015), from FUNAI (2014) To protect forests and pastures

7 To fight climate change Forests managed by Indigenous Peoples and local communities store 37.7 billion tonnes of carbon (WRI, RRI, 2014) Indigenous territories alone hold 80 percent of the planet’s biodiversity (WB, 2008) 35 of the most important biodiversity hot-spots are in Indigenous territories (Gorenflo, 2012) Five billion hectares of grazing lands sequester globally between 200-500kg of carbon per hectare per year (UNEP, IUCN, 2014)

8 To have better investments Land conflicts account for nearly half of the total financial risks of mining investments (University of Queensland, 2014) Without secure indigenous and community land rights, cost of operations for companies can rise up to 29 times (TMP, 2013).

9 Progress or retreat? What is happening on the ground?

10 A gap that must be closed … and the difference between what is written in laws and what happens in practice is enormous

11 And formal recognition is not enough, without grassroots legal empowerment MAP: Landmark, 2016

12 People Protests by women from Panaama, Sri Lanka / OXFAM Participatory mapping in Uganda / NAMATI

13 A Global Call to Action on Indigenous and community land rights

14 Highlights More than 350 organizations and communities Governments and the private sector are joining It is a way to engage and mobilize all the actors towards a common goal And realize the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the Paris Agreement

15 Our goal is to close this gap … and our target is to double the area of land formally recognized as owned or controlled by indigenous peoples and local communities by 2020

16 How? We identified a path for global action 7 major shifts Detailed policy recommendations

17 Are you joining? www.landrightsnow.org


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