Who Owns the World’s Land?
Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples, and local communities comprise up to 2.5 billion of the Earth's population and customarily hold and use at least 50 percent of its lands. This second edition of
Who Owns the World’s Land? by the
Rights and Resources Initiative reports on progress over the first five years (2015– 2020) of the SDGs, the Paris Agreement, and the Land Rights Now7 target to double the area of community-owned land. It provides updated data on the extent of lands legally recognized as designated for, and owned by, Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples, and local communities in 73 countries covering over 85 percent of global lands. Full implementation of existing laws has the potential to increase community-owned or -controlled lands by an area twice the size of Peru.
https://rightsandresources.org/wp-content/uploads/Who-Owns-the-Worlds-Land_Final-EN.pdf
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