Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) form an overarching framework to guide development at all scales from local to global. They are intended to holistically address sustainability across its economic, ecological and social dimensions. A core tenant of this holistic approach is that all dimensions of sustainability are interlinked, such that changes in one dimension can have pivotal effects on others. This paper focuses on land and forest resource tenure as one such pivotal issue that importantly shapes the achievement of the SDGs. It considers the current status of forest tenure globally and analyses critically how the different aspects of tenure rights are included and addressed in the SDG targets and indicators. The main conclusions of this analysis are that land and resource tenure, including forest tenure, is explicitly addressed in specific SDGs, but the way these SDGs, targets and corresponding indicators are formulated leads to only partial inclusion of important aspects of tenure rights.
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- Securing Tenure Rights for Forest-Dependent Communities: a global comparative study of design and implementation of tenure reform
- Securing Tenure Rights for Forest Landscape-Dependent Communities: Linking science with policy to advance tenure security, sustainable forest management and people’s livelihoods
- International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Forest Policy and Economics 120: 102294
Publication year
2020
ISSN
1389-9341
Authors
Katila, P.; McDermott, C.; Larson, A.M.; Aggarwal, S.; Giessen, L.
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Anne Larson
Team Leader, Equal Opportunities, Gender Justice & Tenure