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place explores the complex social, economic and political effects of inadequate land rights – from environmental sustainability and food insecurity to the potential for conflict and war.

However place will not just show you what is going wrong in the world.

We also want to tell you about the exciting and courageous projects unfolding worldwide to help solve this pressing issue.

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    In the territory of the Shipibo people of the Peruvian Amazon, the indigenous community of Santa Clara de Uchunya are facing the devastation of their ancestral forests and rivers. This is due to the aggressive expansion of a palm oil plantation operated by Plantaciones de Pucallpa S.A.C., a member of a group of companies controlled […]

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  • Green: at what price? Reforestation at the cost of local communities

    Place investigates Uganda’s Bukaleba Forest Reserve where the Ugandan government has leased over 8,000 hectares of land to Norwegian-based  Green Resources, the largest forestation company operating in Africa. “Green: At What Price?” tells the story of the forest inhabitants who are locked in a battle with Green Resources for formal rights to land. Find out more here: http://www.thisisplace.org/i/?id=e3f7025e-9a4f-4c90-86e9-acf7758e7dd3

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  • Worth Dying For? Fighting for their lives - indigenous activists in Honduras

    Berta Cáceres, Honduras’ most well-known land and environmental campaigner, and winner of the International Goldman Prize for the Environment, was brutally murdered in her home over a year ago. More people in Honduras are killed per capita than anywhere else in the world for defending the land and over 80% of cases go unsolved. “Worth […]

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