Indigenous people and local communities lack legal rights to almost three quarters of their traditional lands, sparking social conflict and undermining international plans to curb poverty, hunger and climate change, researchers said...The first of 17 new global goals adopted by the United Nations on Friday, on ending poverty, commits to ensuring that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to ownership and control over land by 2030...[Andy] White[, coordinator of the Rights and Resources Initiative] said that most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were connected with land, because it is the basis of survival for the world's poor..."It's very clear now that the SDGs will fail unless governments address this crisis," he said.