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

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IIED animation to help communities protect legal rights

A community in Cameroon, where Centre pour l'Environnement et le Developpement has been supporting junior lawyers in rural communities (Photo: Lorenzo Cotula/IIED)

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Legal empowerment: what we do, what we've learned

New Community Forest Instructions give communities rights to commercially sell timber and non-timber forest products, such as such as rattan and honey (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

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Forest rights create new livelihoods in Myanmar

A water connection project built to link the Lobé river to the Kribi harbour, South Region, Cameroon (Photo: Thierry Berger)

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LandCam: securing land and resource rights and improving governance in Cameroon

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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)

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

Legal tools for citizen empowerment

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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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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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Reconsidering Sovereignty, Ownership and Consent in Natural Resource Contracts: From Concepts to Practice

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Sécurisation du foncier pastoral en Afrique de l’Ouest : Des modèles divers et riches d’enseignements

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Agricultural Investments Under International Investment Law

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Vers une loi équitable et efficace sur l’acquisition obligatoire des terres au Cameroun

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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

Screengrab of a map of indigenous peoples’ territories in the Peruvian Amazon (Image: IBC Peru)

Creating a global 'land rights family': from knowledge to action

Blog, Mar 2018

Yanacocha Mine, in Cajamarca, Peru. The country's Supreme Court last year ruled in favour of a farmer that a US gold miner claimed was illegally occupying land it wanted to develop (Golda Fuentes, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Getting community voices heard in investor-state arbitration

Blog, Mar 2018

A mountain of tailings, or mining waste, at an open-pit copper mining complex southwest of the city of Arequipa in southern Peru (Photo: A Davey, Creative Commons via Flickr)

IIED webinar: civil society submissions in investor-state arbitration – do they work?

News, Jan 2018

New Community Forest Instructions give communities rights to commercially sell timber and non-timber forest products, such as such as rattan and honey (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

Forest rights create new livelihoods in Myanmar

Blog, Dec 2017