10/10/2025
15:00 - 15:45
IUCN Africa
Why attend
Secure land tenure and land rights are an essential building block to effective conservation and livelihoods in Africa
Session Description
People take better care of the things they value and gain benefit from. IP&LCs currently manage or govern a significant portion of the world's land, including many of the most highly-valued ecosystems. Their stewardship of these areas plays a crucial role in the success of biodiversity conservation. Today, this stewardship is in jeopardy because secure land tenure and guaranteed rights to the use and benefits from the natural resources upon which they depend are far from assured for many IP&LC. In the absence of secure tenure and rights, local stewardship by IP&LCs is severely weakened and private investment lags because risks outweigh the benefits sought.This Panel will share lived experiences of the power of strong devolution of rights and access to the benefits of natural resources and where a lack of tenure and rights has resulted in underinvestment and rapid transformation of biodiverse areas into alternative land uses
Organized by
Eastern and Southern Africa Region
Partners
West and Central Africa Region
Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation
Session agenda
Speaker
Jose MONTEIRO
Securing the basics: Land tenure and Natural Resource Rights for Inclusive, Locally-Led Conservation