Land acquisitions and rights | International Institute for Environment and Development

A group of seated African women gather for a discussion (Photo: Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT))

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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

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

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

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

A woman picking leaves from a tree.

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Assisting communities to seek legal redress for land rights violations

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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 stronger voice for women in local land governance: effective approaches in Tanzania, Ghana and Senegal

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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

A group of seated African women gather for a discussion (Photo: Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT))

Making their voices count

Long read, Sep 2019

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