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

Blog

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

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

Project

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

A farm in Uganda. There has recently been much debate about responsible investment in the agricultural sector (Photo: US Aid, Creative Common, via Flickr)

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Responsible investment provisions in international investment treaties: where next?

A community in the Philippines protesting against a mining project in their area holds up their resolutions against the plans, developed through the support of paralegals who provided them with legal advice

Project

Helping communities push back by making better use of the law

Land cleared for palm oil in Riau Province, Indonesia. Only half of Riau's palm oil plantations have official permits (Photo: Wakx, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Article

Law in the natural resource squeeze: 'land grabbing', investment treaties and human rights

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

News

New IIED legal tools newsletter focuses on legal empowerment

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)

Article

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)

Article

Legal tools: sharing lessons from innovation

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?

Publications

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Marine genetic resources in areas beyond national jurisdiction: a ‘common heritage of mankind’

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Projet de réforme minière au Mali : trois secteurs clés à améliorer

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Revising Mali’s mining code: three key areas for improvement

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Special economic zones: engines of development or sites of exploitation?

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Agricultural Investments Under International Investment Law

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IIED submission to the online consultation on the Netherlands Draft Model BIT

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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

The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, headquarters building in Vienna (Photo: Michela Mazzoli, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Investor-state arbitration: an opportunity for real reform?

Blog, Dec 2018

The UK government has warned that flooding is likely to become more frequent as the country’s climate changes (Photo: Dachlan, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Celebrating 10 years of the UK Climate Change Act: an influential law beyond its borders

Blog, Nov 2018

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)

Building transparency and trust into smallholder commodity trading and contract farming

Blog, Nov 2018

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)

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

Blog, Nov 2018

The Vienna International Centre, venue for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law conference (Photo: Brücke-Osteuropa [CC0], from Wikimedia Commons)

Open forum: stakeholder session on UNCITRAL ISDS reform process

Event, Oct 2018

A man from Malawi holds cotton in his hands

IIED webinar: Incentive-based contract farming and agricultural commodities exchanges

News, Sep 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

Farmers in Nepal. Nepal has introduced a range of strategies and policies to tackle climate change (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Author Q&A: Trends in climate change legislation

Article, May 2018

Cover of the Trends in Climate Change Legislation book, depicting a set of scales

Book summary: Trends in Climate Change Legislation

Article, May 2018

A Kenyan smallholder waters plants on his mixed farm where he is growing fruit trees and crops (Photo: V. Atakos/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Empowering Producers in Commercial Agriculture (EPIC)

Project, 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