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As their land and water turns saline, Kenyan communities take on salt firms

Australian miner threatens lawsuit against PNG for scrapping carbon scheme

Organized crime drives violence and deforestation in the Amazon, study shows

Did Wall Street play a role in this year’s wheat price crisis?

Amid rising pressure, Indonesia’s sea-based communities adapt to change

Climate change amplifies the risk of conflict, study from Africa shows

Cameroon’s Nigerian refugees who degraded their camp are now vanguards of reforestation

‘That’s a scam’: Indian firm’s REDD+ carbon deal in the DRC raises concern

Coal mining threatens Ethiopia’s ancient coffee forest

Report clears Kenyan conservancy of community abuse, but advocates cry foul

Indigenous agroforestry dying of thirst amid a sea of avocados in Mexico

A look at violence and conflict over Indigenous lands in nine Latin American countries

Conflict over resources in Kenya hits deadly highs with firearms in play

Deforestation-neutral mining? Madagascar study shows it can be done, but it’s complicated

Court setback doesn’t sway Indonesian villagers fighting a mining firm

Contorted energy politics of the Ukraine crisis (commentary)

Forest loss shows stopgap decrees failing to protect Brazil’s isolated Indigenous

In Gabon, a community’s plea against logging paves the way for a new reserve

Protecting water by conserving forests puts communities in Mexico to the test

As the Horn of Africa heats up, the risks of insecurity are rising (commentary)

From land mines to lifelines, Lebanon’s Shouf is a rare restoration success story

DRC’s cacao boom leaves a bitter aftertaste for Congo Basin forest

Sierra Leone lawsuit against diamond mine runs up against corporate opacity

In Indonesia, a ‘devious’ policy silences opposition to mining, activists say

Liberian villagers threaten to leave mining agreement, citing broken promises

Josefina Tunki: ‘If we have to die in defense of the land, we have to die’

Changes to Madagascar’s trawling sector raise questions and hopes

Madagascar’s small fishers cheer new trawl-free zone, but do trawlers obey it?

Indonesians protesting against mines run growing risk of ‘criminalization’

In Colombia, threatened women of the Wayuú community continue to fight rampant mining

Lack of resolution mechanisms allow palm oil conflicts to fester in Indonesia

At a ‘certified’ palm oil plantation in Nigeria, soldiers and conflict over land

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