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This yearbook chapter discusses the link between international investment law and commercial pressures on the world’s natural resources.
Large-scale land acquisitions are increasing in pace and scale, in particular across parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
For many millions in the developing world, land is central to livelihoods, food security, even identity – the result of a direct dependence on agriculture and natural resources.
This article explores the legal arrangements that integrate resource-dependent countries into the global economy.
The focus of this paper is on the design and development of common property institutions (CPIs) for the management of natural resources, particularly communal grazing land, within land redistribution programmes in South Africa.
In many rural areas across sub-Saharan Africa, the way land is accessed is shaped by long-standing norms, often characterised by patrilineal inheritance systems that exclude women from decisionmaking processes.
This report provides comments on Chad’s draft Land Code (January 2014 version).
La terre est essentielle à la subsistance, la sécurité alimentaire et l’identité de millions de personnes dans le monde en développement, en raison de leur dépendance directe à l’agriculture et aux ressources naturelles.
Who can access and use the land? The answer to this age-old question is changing fast in many parts of rural Africa. Land that used to be allocated within the community by chiefs is now increasingly changing hands in more diverse ways.