Forest people resource use and rights: studying the impacts of global forces on many Pygmy groups across the Congo Basin has led to applied research supporting conservation efforts by forest people and supporting them to better represent themselves to outsiders, particularly use of GPS technology by non literate peoples to define and monitor their resources against logging incursions, and issues of free, prior and informed consent on resource extraction, as well as research into human rights abuses, discrimination, economic and legal marginalisation.