”AMAZONAS DIALOG FORUM”: LAND GOVERNANCE AND TRADITIONAL POPULATIONS RIGHTS IN BRAZILIAN AMAZON
ANDRÉ SEGURA TOMASI, JOSINALDO ALEIXO et al
The Brazilian Amazon still lack a defined property arrangement and land regularization, which can guarantee traditional populations rights’ effectiveness and fulfillment. Insecurity in land tenure within Protected Areas affects communities development, constraining opportunities for income generation, access to public policies and deforestation. In response to this, the "Amazonas Dialog Forum" was created in 2012 as a result of efforts channelized by three civil society organizations: Brazil’s International Education Institute (IEB), Land Pastoral Commission (CPT) and National Council for Extractive Populations (CNS). The objective is to promote land regularization in Protected Areas categorized as “Sustainable Use”, and to ensure traditional people´s social, economic and environmental rights, promoting their protagonism in the territorial planning agenda. Its approach is based on putting together national and state land agencies responsible for land regularization in Amazonas state, Brazil. Up to now, the “Forum” provided land documentation for around 1,468 families, regularizing approximately 2,3 million hectares.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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