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Investor-state arbitration: an opportunity for real reform?

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)

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

These cars in downtown Lanzhou are part of efforts to reduce CO2 emissions in China. But electric cars require nearly 10kg of cobalt per vehicle, which may encourage increased deep-sea mining (Photo: Tim Zachernuk, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

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Mining in the deep-sea bed: are we ready?

Farmers loading tea leaves in Malawi (Photo credit: nchenga nchenga, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Project

Empowering Producers in Commercial Agriculture (EPIC)

Bester Glandson was lent land and taught to grow soy and groundnuts with support from the National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi (NASFAM) (Photo: Olivier Girard/EIF, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Building transparency and trust into smallholder commodity trading and contract farming

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New IIED legal tools newsletter focuses on legal empowerment

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

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Project

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

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

Farmers loading tea leaves in Malawi (Photo credit: nchenga nchenga, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Empowering Producers in Commercial Agriculture (EPIC)

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Between Hope and Critique: Human Rights, Social Justice and Re-Imagining International Law from the Bottom Up

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Between Hope and Critique: Human Rights, Social Justice and Re-Imagining International Law from the Bottom Up

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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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Against the odds: growing producer power in agricultural value chains

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‘Blue economy’: why we should talk about investment law

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République du Congo : cinq priorités de l’encadrement juridique de la foresterie communautaire

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Foreign investment, knowledge and international arbitration: inside a research trip

Blog, Jun 2020

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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

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COVID-19 and the sites of rights resilience

Blog, May 2020

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Land rights and investment treaties

Project, May 2020

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Democratising international investment law

Project, May 2020

An open pit mine

Realigning investment contracts with sustainable development

Project, May 2020

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Kenya’s coffee sector in the COVID-19 context: can producer agency be sustained?

Webinar, May 2020

A cement factory

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

Blog, Apr 2020

A trail through burned rainforest

Land rights and investments: why business standards are not enough

Blog, Mar 2020

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Webinar: Using technology to increase market and finance access for smallholders

Event, Mar 2020