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Improving accountability in agricultural investments: Reflections from legal empowerment initiatives in West Africa
… surge in agribusiness plantation deals has increased pressures on land in many low- and middle-income countries. Rural people have mobilised to protect their rights, seek better terms or oppose the deals altogether. Since 2014, an … in Cameroon, grassroots committees in Ghana and locally negotiated land charters in Senegal. In the final year of project implementation, …
Publication, 01 June 2017
Invest in farmers, not in farmland
… "Land grabs" are now one of the biggest issues in Africa. Over the past … to be made in agriculture. Some governments have also promoted land acquisitions abroad as a way to secure affordable food for their people. … Africa, local farmers, herders and gatherers only have insecure legal rights to the land they see as theirs. Most have no written documents …
Insight, 22 February 2012
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Promoting Land Rights in Africa: How do NGOs make a difference?
… success? This report is based on a study of seven NGOs promoting land reform and land rights in Mozambique and Kenya. It discusses the activities and … Land acquisitions and rights … Promoting Land Rights in Africa: How do NGOs make a difference? …
Publication, 01 January 2002
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Biofuels, land access and rural livelihoods in Mozambique
… create new livelihood opportunities, it may also undermine access to land and natural resources for rural people.~ ~This report explores the early impacts of the biofuels boom on access to land and on local livelihoods in Mozambique. It draws on fieldwork on … Land acquisitions and rights … Biofuels, land access and rural livelihoods in Mozambique …
Publication, 01 June 2010
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ALIGN - Faire progresser la gouvernance des investissements fonciers
… Le projet ALIGN (Advancing Land-based Investment Governance) appuie les gouvernements, la société … Land acquisitions and rights …
Publication, 29 April 2022
REDD+ in Mozambique: new opportunity for land grabbers?
… Photo credit: Mike Goldwater Land is cheap and is perceived to be abundant in Africa. A scramble for its land, following the food and fuel crisis three years ago, is on. … where to use the land and for what, to enforce local communities’ rights to land and other resources, including carbon, to generate …
Insight, 15 September 2011
Report shows how secret land deals can fail to benefit African nations – and how to make them better
… African nations risk giving investors access to large areas of land in rushed, secretive and one-sided deals that fail to deliver real … recent contracts through which investors have leased large areas of land in East, West, Central and Southern Africa for various agricultural … funds and government agencies have been acquiring long-term rights over large areas of land in Africa, raising both the promise of …
News, 31 January 2011
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ALIGN - Soutien technique sur les investissements fonciers pour la société civile dans les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire
Publication, 29 April 2022
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ALIGN - Soutien technique sur les investissements fonciers pour les gouvernements dans les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire
Publication, 29 April 2022
Sheep wander past a former IDP camp in northern Uganda.
Uganda: Breaking the links between the land and the people
… counter-attacks by the Ugandan army, the region has become wracked by land conflicts. Meanwhile, the introduction of new but chaotically-administered land tenure policies that encourage land  sales and massive … attempt to define or redefine, express and uphold their communal land rights. This is not mere sentimentality – a return to the past. It also …
Insight, 11 March 2013