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The new OpenLandContracts.org database contains the details of publicly available investment contracts from around the world (Image: Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment (CCSI))
Opening up land contracts
… them. A new online resource is seeking to change this by making contracts for land deals available.  IIED has previously scrutinised the … regulate matters that one would expect to be governed by national law – such as taxation or environmental standards, as this report (PDF) … IIED report/paper Democratising international investment law: recent trends and lessons from experience , Lorenzo Cotula (2015), …
Insight, 20 October 2015
The new OpenLandContracts.org database will contain the details of publicly available investment contracts from around the world (Image: Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment (CCSI))
New online database of investment contracts hailed as a "game changer"
… database will contain the details of publicly available investment contracts for large-scale land, agriculture, and forestry projects from … Cotula authored a report, ' Democratising international investment law ', which reviewed current efforts to make international investment law more transparent. The report makes the case for greater citizen …
News, 06 October 2015
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Legal tools: sharing lessons from innovation
… includes making use of investor and company grievance mechanisms to scrutinising international investment treaties, contracts and arbitration. Through approaches such as paralegal … Law … Law, economies and justice …
Article, 09 October 2014
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How to scrutinise a production sharing agreement
… proved invaluable at two training sessions on extractive industry contracts co-organised by IIED in Central Asia (with Kazakhstan Revenue Watch) and in Ghana (with the Centre for Public Interest Law). …
Publication, 01 April 2012
A farmer's house and sugar cane field in Cambodia, where there is concern about large-scale investment in sugar plantations driving local people off the land (Photo: Brian Hoffman, via Creative Commons)
Human rights should be at the heart of investment policy making
… also feature an addendum that contains Principles for Responsible Contracts (PDF) , which provides guidance on how to integrate human … to respect' those rights come directly into contact. Unbalanced law promotes unfair investments Yet, human rights are rarely factored … and even conflict – because even compliance with applicable law may not be enough to shelter companies from criticism. Contestation …
Insight, 20 October 2014
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IIED research and evidence in academia
… Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (PDF) , Trade, Law and Development Vol. XVII, No. 2, p390-416 (summer 2026)  This … IIED's Pia Treichel . Critical minerals: international economic law in a global resource rush , Trade Law and Development (November … and measured. Featuring IIED's Annabelle Bladon . Investment contracts and international law: charting a research agenda (2020), …
Article, 23 September 2020
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Legal Tools for Citizen Empowerment: Strengthening rights and voices in natural resource investment
… making use of investor and company grievance mechanisms, through to scrutinising international investment treaties, contracts and arbitration. … Law …
Publication, 01 November 2014
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
… for affected people in their relations with DFI clients Reviewing the contracts project developers may have signed with the host government or … Increasing the transparency of investments by disclosing project contracts, including financing instruments Taking systematic action to … Law …
Insight, 22 March 2019