Lack of land rights for local communities could scare away investment
3rd February 2016 / Morgan Erickson-Davis, Mongabay Staff Writer
A new report warns that conflict between companies and local groups in areas with insecure land tenure can be harmful for both parties.
- Analysts find that most conflicts that occur between development projects and local communities involve situations in which the communities lack rights to their land.
- These disputes could damage the financial bottom line of an operation, which may scare off future investment in a region.
- The report's authors say that this could serve as a wakeup call to governments, and provide further incentive to grant communities tenure to the land on which they have been living and depending for generations.
