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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)

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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

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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)

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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)

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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

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

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)

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Supporting small-scale farmers in negotiations with agribusiness

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

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Raising the bar on responsible investment: what role for investment treaties?

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

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Towards fair and effective legislation on compulsory land acquisition in Cameroon

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The state of exception and the law of the global economy: a conceptual and empirico-legal inquiry

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Trends in global land use investment: implications for legal empowerment

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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

Workers in a tea plantation. (Photo: Anil Wadghule, Creative Commons via Flickr)

IIED webinar: How to support small-scale farmers in negotiations with agribusiness

News, 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

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

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

Blog, Nov 2017

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

Responsible investment provisions in international investment treaties: where next?

Blog, Oct 2017