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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?

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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

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Introduction to legal tools for citizen empowerment

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ALIGN: Advancing Land-based Investment Governance

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

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Socio-legal empowerment and agency of small-scale farmers in informal markets

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

Investment Contracts and International Law: Charting a Research Agenda

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

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

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

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The landscape of the Santurbán páramo.

Unpacking regulatory chill: the case of mining in the Santurbán páramo in Colombia

Blog, Dec 2020

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Producer agency in certification schemes: challenges and opportunities

Webinar, Dec 2020

A data collector speaks to a householder.

Helping indigenous communities secure land rights in Nepal

Case study, Dec 2020

Men and women sitting in chairs.

What happens when the landgrabbers leave? An account from Kilwa, Tanzania

Blog, Dec 2020

A photo of a woman.

Protecting Indigenous lands: lessons from Chile

Case study, Nov 2020

Women using hoes in a crop field in Kilosa, Tanzania.

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

Blog, Oct 2020

Woman tilling soil with a hoe.

Bringing attention to what works for women’s land rights

News, Oct 2020

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International treaties threaten affordability of climate action: new report

News, Oct 2020

Forestry tractor carrying fruits from a field

ALIGN: Advancing Land-based Investment Governance

Project, Sep 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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Sustaining coffee producers’ agency in the context of COVID-19

Blog, Aug 2020

Páramo landscape

Investment disputes from below: whose rights matter?

Long read, Jul 2020