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This yearbook chapter discusses the link between international investment law and commercial pressures on the world’s natural resources.

PublicationLaw, Land acquisitions and rights

This article explores the legal arrangements that integrate resource-dependent countries into the global economy.

PublicationLand acquisitions and rights, Law

Nearly a decade after becoming a party to the international environment agreement - the Convention on Biological Diversity, India enacted in 2002 the Biological Diversity Act.

PublicationLaw

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.

PublicationLaw, Land acquisitions and rights

This report provides comments on Chad’s draft Land Code (January 2014 version).

PublicationLand acquisitions and rights, Law

Ces dernières années, l’agrobusiness, les fonds d’investissement et les agences gouvernementales ont procédé à l’acquisition de droits à long terme sur de vastes étendues de terres en Afrique.

PublicationLaw

As delegates from 197 governments head to Bonn, Germany, for the 23rd annual UN climate talks (COP23), the need for climate action has never been clearer: a year of devastating hurricanes, extraordinary monsoon flooding and record-breaki

PublicationClimate change, Law

Ces dernières années, le gouvernement malaisien s'est engagé dans un certain nombre de négociations bilatérales et régionales en vue de conclure d'importants traités de commerce et d'investissement avec de grandes économies situées hors

PublicationLaw

Growing numbers of policies and programmes aim to integrate small-scale rural producers into agricultural value chains, mobilising concepts such as ‘inclusive business’ to promote approaches whereby firms equitably include low-income gro

PublicationLaw, Food and agriculture
An orangutan swinging between trees
Recent years have witnessed a new wave of large-scale acquisitions for agribusiness investments in Africa and Asia. Countries that house a large proportion of the world's biodiversity and ape habitats and populations have lost areas of high biodiversity land to commercial agriculture. Despite much effort at local, national and global levels, evidence on the exact scale, location and coverage of agribusiness investments remains patchy and often unreliable
ProjectBiodiversity, Land acquisitions and rights, Law

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