(Ecofin Agency) - After the global call to indigenous populations to fight for their rights to land, the Centre or Environment and Development (CED) which is based in Yaoundé, launched the “Atlas of community conflicts in Africa”.

It is a platform which gathers stories on conflicts and complaints of local populations in relation to land grabbing.

According to CED’s data, more than 370 million indigenous people around the world live on land and natural resources. Yet, only 1/5 of the lands on which they live are known to belong to them.

Mediaterre, highlighting that lands are vital for farming in rural areas, said this situation exposes a third of the world’s population (which is in rural areas) to a risk of famine.

CED hopes that the new platform, even if it does not end conflicts by exposing land grabs, will at least discourage those behind the phenomenon.