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Long-term outcomes of agricultural investments: Lessons from Zambia
… Agricultural investments involving the acquisition of long-term rights over large areas of land in developing countries have been the focus of much debate in … investment in agriculture, but trends towards large-scale land acquisitions raise major social, economic and environmental concerns. … Land acquisitions and rights …
Publication, 01 December 2012
Coming in for lunch in the rice fields near Inle Lake, Myanmar. Online databases can provide verified data on land conflicts and help resolve disputes and improve governance (Eric Brochu, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Using online technology to empower communities facing land deals
… Large scale agricultural investments can compromise the land rights of communities and threaten livelihoods, but often it is … involved to access information about the nature of the deals and land conflicts. A recent IIED webinar heard how online technology can be … Land acquisitions and rights … Using online technology to empower communities facing land deals …
Insight, 04 August 2016
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Accountability in Africa's land rush: what role for legal empowerment
… improve access to markets and support infrastructure, many large land deals have been associated with negative impacts for local populations, including the dispossession of land and other resources and increased conflict over economic benefits. … But less is known about how the legal frameworks regulating this land rush shape opportunities and constraints in formal pathways to …
Publication, 01 April 2013
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Utiliser le dialogue pour remédier aux conflits fonciers
… Land acquisitions and rights …
Publication, 30 January 2023
Land and water rights in the Sahel
… These efforts have often failed to consider governance and property rights issues - who decides what and how, and who has right over what … problem lies with inadequate legal frameworks. In much of the Sahel, land and water laws have evolved with very little coordination, and … in different directions. Contradictions between sectoral laws on land, water and pastoralism, and between these and legislation on …
Project, 04 September 2008
Local community in Guinea attending to field.
Reconnaître et protéger l’agriculture familiale en Guinée: itinéraire d’un plaidoyer réussi
… Land acquisitions and rights …
Insight, 09 September 2024
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Securing Secondary Rights to Land in West Africa
… This paper summarises the results of ‘Derived rights of access to land and natural resources’, a study carried out in … by the British and French governments to help develop and implement land tenure policies which improve land tenure security for rural people. … Land acquisitions and rights … Securing Secondary Rights to Land in West Africa …
Publication, 01 January 2002
A cement factory
COVID-19 and global economic ordering: radical shift or more of the same?
… crisis and the food price hikes of 2007-08 sparked a global wave of ‘land grab’ deals , whereby businesses from wealthy food importing countries acquired large areas of land in poorer countries, causing dispossession.  Law’s contribution to … businesses, post COVID-19 – possibly exacerbating a backlash against 'rights' advocates and reducing political space for those who contest …
Insight, 24 April 2020
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
… The investments giving rise to these claims often affect the rights and interests of local communities. A recent webinar jointly … . The investments being disputed can affect communities' access to land and natural resources, their human rights, or damage the … Industries Sector (PDF) , Lise Johnson and Jesse Coleman (2016) Land deal dilemmas: Grievances, human rights, and investor protection …
Insight, 05 March 2018
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Understanding changing land issues for the rural poor in Mozambique
… In Mozambique, changes in land access and use are shaping new landscapes, often at the expense of the poor. Despite progressive land legislation, elite groups and vested interests are consolidating land holdings while peasant producers are being dispossessed of their … Land acquisitions and rights … Understanding changing land issues for the rural poor in Mozambique …
Publication, 01 May 2017