Maps & Data
Land and Resource Rights
WRI’s Land and Resource Rights project aims to ensure that rural people and the urban poor have secure rights over their land and natural resources.
INFOGRAPHIC: Experience the Unequal Ways Communities and Companies Get Land Rights
This infographic allows you to navigate the process for a community seeking formal land rights in Indonesia, versus for a company securing an oil palm concession.
Why Invest in Indigenous Lands?
Tenure-secure indigenous and other community forestlands are often linked to low deforestation rates, significant forest cover, and the sustainable production of timber and other forest products. New WRI research shows that securing indigenous forestland is also a low-cost, high-benefit investment and therefore makes good economic sense.
A Farmer In Africa: Balancing Property Rights With National Needs
This video illustrates Katari community farmers who rely on community land rights, and the challenges faced by governments who don't always back them up with legislation.
Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change
Securing community land rights help maintain healthier forests and lower CO2 emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
Infographic: Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change
Learn more about securing community forest rights to combat climate change.
Rights to Resources Interactive Map
The Rights to Resources interactive map presents information on citizen and community rights to natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa.
A Farmer in Africa: Overlapping Property Rights
In much of Africa, land and natural resources are governed by separate laws under different property rights systems. As a consequence, one entity may legally hold the rights to the surface land while another holds the rights to the natural resources under the same land.
Rights to Resources Map: Data Set
This data set, in Excel format, summarizes the information presented in the Rights to Resources online interactive map.
A Farmer in Africa: Limiting Property Rights
In developing countries around the world, rural people are losing their land and natural resources with often profound adverse effects on local livelihoods and wellbeing, and on local environments and ecosystem services.