Land acquisitions and rights | International Institute for Environment and Development

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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

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

Farm labourers in a field

Article

Introduction to legal tools for citizen empowerment

Forestry tractor carrying fruits from a field

Project

ALIGN: Advancing Land-based Investment Governance

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Project

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

Publications

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(Dis)integration in Global Resource Governance: Extractivism, Human Rights, and Investment Treaties

X00241

Investment Contracts and International Law: Charting a Research Agenda

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Sécuriser les droits fonciers au Cameroun : ce qui n’a pas marché et ce qu’il faudrait faire

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The future of land: commercial pressures and the case for systemic law reform to secure rural land rights

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“Inclusive business” in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains

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Securing land rights in Cameroon: what hasn’t worked and what should be done

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Bringing attention to what works for women’s land rights

News, Oct 2020

Two women using hoes in a crop field.

Blog series probes principles: what works for women’s land rights?

Blog, Oct 2020

Woman cutting weeds in forest.

What’s needed to halt threats to rural land rights in Cameroon

News, Sep 2020

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“Public officers are also human beings”: trust and environmental governance

Blog, Jul 2020

An orangutan swinging between trees

Archive of completed legal tools projects

Article, Jun 2020

Strengthening land governance, local to global

Project, Jun 2020

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

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Land rights and investment treaties

Project, May 2020

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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