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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
… Why human rights matter As economic globalisation extends its reach, rights are … investments in petroleum, mining or agriculture may squeeze the land rights of farmers, herders and foragers, affecting fundamental … be enough to shelter companies from criticism. Contestation about 'land grabbing' in relation to the recent wave of agribusiness …
Insight, 20 October 2014
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Tested tools for righting resource wrongs
… Conflict over forests, land and other natural resources is an increasingly bloody reality in … women playing a leading role – mobilised to gain an important lands rights victory . Their effective use of land laws, combined with online activism and media coverage, led the … Land acquisitions and rights …
Insight, 14 October 2013
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Land investments, accountability and the law: Lessons from West Africa
… The recent wave of land deals for agribusiness investments has highlighted the widespread demand for greater accountability in the governance of land and investment. Legal frameworks influence opportunities for … to law has featured prominently in grassroots responses to the land deals. Drawing on comparative socio-legal research in Cameroon, …
Publication, 01 May 2016
A group of seated African women gather for a discussion (Photo: Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT))
Making their voices count
… three children and, like many women in her community, looks to the land to help her support her family. In 2008 a British firm called Sun Biofuels acquired 8,200 hectares of land nearby. Though the  venture soon failed , the land passed to another company and remains unavailable. Villagers were … Land acquisitions and rights …
Long read, 10 September 2019
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Land deals and investment treaties: visualising the interface
… investments initiated as part of the recent wave of large-scale land deals in low and middle-income countries. It finds that the vast majority of land deals are protected by at least one investment treaty. Depending on circumstances, public action to terminate, renegotiate or regulate land deals could expose states to the risk of treaty-based arbitration …
Publication, 01 November 2015
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Are land deals driving ‘water grabs’?
… Investors in land often look for land with a high growing potential, which means land with lots of … involving irrigation, investors typically want to secure water rights as part of the deal. Motivated by potential revenues from water … Land acquisitions and rights … Are land deals driving ‘water grabs’? …
Publication, 01 November 2011
'Land grabbing' in the shadow of the law in Africa
… Law for people and companies: different shades of grey As the global land rush unfolds, this scenario is becoming increasingly common. What … do people faced with similar situations have? My new book, Human Rights, Natural Resource and Investment Law in a Globalised World: … states, but a recurring issue in many poorer countries is that the land that local people have been using for generations, and see as …
Insight, 13 October 2011
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“Inclusive business” in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains
… areas, but has also raised concerns over implications for customary land rights and the terms of integration of local land and labor into global supply chains. In global development policy … Land acquisitions and rights …
Publication, 01 May 2020
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Innovation in Securing Land Rights in Africa: Lessons from experience
… This paper examines current trends in land tenure and sources of insecurity, and then moves on to describe … innovative policy and practice to secure various kinds of tenure rights. Rather than providing a comprehensive review, it seeks to gather … brought together researchers and practitioners actively engaged in land tenure policy research, debates and implementation. This briefing …
Publication, 01 September 2006
Investigating land tenure issues among cocoa farmers in the Brong Ahafo and Western Region of Ghana (Photo: Emily Polack/IIED)
Large land deals: Complex financial flows create routes for accountability
… will present the findings at the annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty on 24-27 March. "Rather than a simple transaction between a provider and an acquirer of land, each deal may in fact involve a complex web of multiple … in investment processes." The players involved in large land deals include 'end investors' (banks, pension funds, sovereign …
News, 24 March 2014