Publication : Report

Evidences from all the four case studies suggest that the granting of ELCs usually overlapped the land local people claimed. The scope of overlapping ranges from farmland to homestead land. Indigenous People communities in particular are prone to such overlapping due to their conventional land use such as practice of shifting cultivation and their livelihoods are also vulnerable since they are more reliant on common resources such as forest.

Information Source : Economic Land Concessions and Local Communities

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