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Women working the land
Une étude montre comment la formation permet aux femmes de prendre conscience de leurs droits fonciers
… Land acquisitions and rights … What works for women’s land rights? …
Insight, 27 May 2021
Farmers tend crops in a field
Legal and social accountability tools in agricultural investments in West Africa
Project, 09 October 2014
Cover for 12603IIED.pdf
Community perspectives in investor-state arbitration
… in such cases include concerns about communities’ enjoyment of human rights, their access to land and natural resources, exposure to environmental harm and public … arbitral tribunals consider community perspectives, interests and rights in their settlement of investment disputes. Based on information … Land acquisitions and rights …
Publication, 01 June 2017
Saba bananas, a cooking banana from the Philippines. Grassroots organisation FARMCOOP works with Philippine farmers’ cooperatives to negotiate fair contracts and build capacity (Photo: Obsidian Soul, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Supporting small-scale farmers in negotiations with agribusiness
… ago, the Philippines initiated agrarian reforms, as part of which land was redistributed to farmers, who were termed 'agrarian reform … and highlight in more detail how to effectively protect the rights of rural producers in different contexts. You can see the slides … Land acquisitions and rights …
Insight, 25 May 2018
Land cleared for palm oil production, Indonesia (Photo: Rainforest Action Network, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How investment treaties protect 'land grab' deals
… governing the global economy can have direct implications for land governance.  Take a recent case from Ethiopia, a country where large-scale land deals for agribusiness investments attracted high levels of public … reflects wider trends.  How investment treaties can affect land rights In recent years, investors have relied on investment treaties to …
Insight, 17 February 2016
A Kenyan landscape. Global interest in agricultural investment is on the rise.
As global agri-investment increases, policies must put local people centre stage
… conference in London rekindled civil society mobilisation against 'land grabbing' . So can commercial investments in agriculture respond to … centralised government control over land facilitates large-scale land acquisitions and undermines local rights. Many governments do not charge much for the land, and that fuels …
Insight, 06 December 2012
Cover for 9011IIED.pdf
Land Rights Under Pressure: Access to resources in southern Benin
… examines the diverse arrangements by which people gain access to land and trees, through a system of rental, loans, sharecropping, … growth and shortage of productive soils have generated demand for land and palm tree stands have also become subject to market … There is, nevertheless, a move towards greater individualisation of land relations, with increasing tensions between those who control land, …
Publication, 01 January 2001
The new OpenLandContracts.org database contains the details of publicly available investment contracts from around the world (Image: Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment (CCSI))
Opening up land contracts
… Land has important social, cultural and spiritual as well as economic … and often emotive. Yet many of the investment deals affecting land use are kept hidden from public view, leaving communities in the … for large-scale land, agriculture, and forestry projects Land rights and investment treaties: exploring the interface , Lorenzo …
Insight, 20 October 2015
Man walks by a vegetable plot
Améliorer la gouvernance foncière par la société civile en Guinée
… Land acquisitions and rights …
Project, 21 March 2023
A woman carries firewood in the rainforest
Le projet CoNGOs: Collaboration d’ONG en faveur de moyens de subsistance communautaires équitables et durables dans les forêts du bassin du Congo
… terres dans les forêts du bassin du Congo/Improving Livelihoods and Land Use in the Congo Basin Forests (ILLUCBF)  du département du … Land acquisitions and rights …
Project, 29 September 2022