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The new landcam website

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New 'Landcam' website launched

A Tanzanian woman farmer displays her crop. With commercial pressures on land increasing, women farmers in Africa need support to understand, and speak up for, fair land governance (Photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Strengthening women’s voices in land decisions: what works?

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

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

Flags outside the Palais des Nations, Geneva

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Rethinking investment treaties, laws and contracts

The legal tools newsletter is sent out every three months (Image: IIED)

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New IIED legal tools newsletter focuses on legal empowerment

Animation: Promoting accountability in agricultural investment chains (Image: HandsUp/IIED)

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IIED animation to help communities protect legal rights

Legal tools for citizen empowerment

How IIED is improving the use of legal tools to strengthen local rights in natural resource investments More in this collection

Farm labourers in Mozambique working to clear land for planting crops. Land purchases by foreign investment companies for agribusinesses are pushing farmers off their land. Using legal rights effectively can help local people get a better deal for themselves and their communities (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)

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Introduction to legal tools for citizen empowerment

Kalimantan, Indonesia: A community leader discusses resistance to a logging company building a large oil palm plantation. The banner in the background demands that the company return the community’s rights (Photo: Rainforest Action Network via Flickr)

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Legal tools: sharing lessons from innovation

An aerial view of the Southwest Mau Forest and neighbouring tea estates in Kenya (Photo: Patrick Sheperd/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Development finance and land rights: how we can do better

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Between Promising Advances and Deepening Concerns: A Bottom-Up Review of Trends in Land Governance 2015–2018

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Droits fonciers : le chaînon manquant pour la sécurité alimentaire au Cameroun

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Land rights: the missing link for food security in Cameroon

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Apes, crops and communities: land concessions and conservation in Cameroon

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Are development finance institutions equipped to address land rights issues? A stocktake of practice in agriculture

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Redress for land and resource rights violations: a legal empowerment agenda

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Four women farmers bend over to work their land

Climate justice and the IPCC special report on land

Blog, Aug 2019

A road through deforested land

Investor-state dispute settlement: IIED and partners contribute to reform working group

News, Jul 2019

A woman harvests palm fruit in Tanzania

Local solutions to strengthen women’s voices in land governance

Article, May 2019

The new landcam website

New 'Landcam' website launched

News, May 2019

An aerial view of the Southwest Mau Forest and neighbouring tea estates in Kenya (Photo: Patrick Sheperd/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Development finance and land rights: how we can do better

Blog, Mar 2019

A farmer hoes her land in Tanzania

Webinar: Local solutions to strengthen women’s voices in land governance

Event, Mar 2019

Rainforest logged to make way for palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Deforestation for agribusiness is destroying habitats and the ecosystems upon which local communities depend (Photo: David Gilbert/RAN, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Law and political economy of the global resource squeeze: can action rise to the challenge?

Article, Mar 2019

A Tanzanian woman farmer displays her crop. With commercial pressures on land increasing, women farmers in Africa need support to understand, and speak up for, fair land governance (Photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Strengthening women’s voices in land decisions: what works?

Blog, Jan 2019

A community-owned Mexican sawmill in Oaxaca (Photo: Duncan Macqueen)

Incendiary observations from the 4th FLARE conference

Blog, Oct 2018

Saba bananas, a cooking banana from the Philippines. Grassroots organisation FARMCOOP works with Philippine farmers’ cooperatives to negotiate fair contracts and build capacity (Photo: Obsidian Soul, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)

Supporting small-scale farmers in negotiations with agribusiness

Blog, May 2018

Large-scale international investments in Cameroon have highlighted the importance of protecting the land rights of rural people (Photo: World Agroforestry Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Legal activism key to securing land rights in new investment phase

Blog, Mar 2018

Women farmers in Dodel, in Northern Senegal, take a break by the water pump (Photo: Philippine Sutz/IIED)

Q&A: Getting women's land rights recognised

Article, Mar 2018