Land acquisitions and rights | International Institute for Environment and Development

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Long read

Making their voices count

Four women farmers bend over to work their land

Blog

Climate justice and the IPCC special report on land

A woman harvests palm fruit in Tanzania

Article

Local solutions to strengthen women’s voices in land governance

The new landcam website

News

New 'Landcam' website launched

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News

New IIED legal tools newsletter focuses on legal empowerment

An image from new animation Securing the land rights of people affected by dams in West Africa (Image: Hands Up/IIED)

News

GWI animation: how to secure land rights of people affected by dams

Legal tools for citizen empowerment

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Article

Introduction to legal tools for citizen empowerment

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Project

Understanding growing pressures on land: 'land grabbing' and beyond

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Project

Rethinking investment treaties and dispute settlement in the light of sustainable development

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Sécuriser les droits coutumiers : la clé d’une foresterie communautaire durable

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En quoi les communautés sont-elles un élément clé de la protection des forêts du bassin du Congo

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Grands singes, cultures et communautés : concessions foncières et conservation au Cameroun

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Land rights and investments: why the IFC performance standards are not enough: A comparison with the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure

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Land and human rights: Towards a rights-based approach for addressing commercial pressures on land

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Securing customary rights is key to sustainable community forestry

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A road going into the distance splits two fields

Stopping land and policy grabs in the shadow of COVID-19

Blog, Jun 2020

Two women draw water from a well

Land, investment and migration: a portrait of village life in Mali

Webinar, Jun 2020

Women farmers bending over planting crops in a paddy field

Curbing the impacts of COVID-19 on Nepal’s small-scale farmers and seizing opportunities for food system reform

Blog, May 2020

aerial view of an oil palm plantation

Land rights and investment treaties

Project, May 2020

A cement factory

COVID-19 and global economic ordering: radical shift or more of the same?

Blog, Apr 2020

A canopy above the entrance to a mine. Written on the canopy is 'Bienvenidos a Marmato" - welcome to Marmato

Mining reforms have left Colombia’s artisanal miners behind

Blog, Apr 2020

Book summary: Land, investment and migration: thirty-five years of village life in Mali

Article, Mar 2020

A trail through burned rainforest

Land rights and investments: why business standards are not enough

Blog, Mar 2020

Protesting people march holding a banner

Q&A: Successful social mobilisation for land rights in Nepal

Interview, Feb 2020

Q&A: helping communities protect their land rights

Interview, Jan 2020

A woman picking leaves from a tree.

Assisting communities to seek legal redress for land rights violations

Article, Dec 2019

One man in a small boat on a reservoir, in front of a large dam

Resettlement from large dams – what have we learned?

Blog, Oct 2019