Seeing people through the trees: Scaling up efforts to advance rights and address poverty, conflict and climate change
02 Jun 2008
As world demand for food, fibre and bioenergy escalates, so too does the value of land. By 2030 the world is likely to need an area 12 times the size of Germany to grow food and biofuels, virtually all the developing countries, on currently forested land. Should this occur, the world's poor will be forced to lose their only capital asset - their land, pushing millions of forest-dwelling people further into poverty and conflict and forcing distinct cultures into extinction. This report identifies a strategy to resolve this conflict.
