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Community-investor business models: Lessons from the oil palm sector in East Malaysia
… investments in developing countries. Public debates about ‘land grabbing’ have questioned the socio-economic impacts of large-scale land acquisitions. There is new interest in business models involving … Land acquisitions and rights …
Publication, 01 December 2011
A small-scale farmer in Tanzania
Protecting women’s livelihoods through gender-equitable land governance in sub-Saharan Africa
… IIED has been actively working to promote gender-sensitive land governance in sub-Saharan Africa since 2014. After having improved … of local contexts and existing challenges of gender-equitable land governance in East and West Africa (2014-16), IIED and in-country … Kisarawe District; in Ghana, we worked with the Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT) and The Grassroot Sisterhood Foundation (GSF) …
Project, 09 October 2014
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Making the most of agricultural investment: A survey of business models that provide opportunities for smallholders
… investment. In many cases, this has translated into large-scale acquisitions of farmland in lower- and middle-income countries. Partly … these acquisitions have triggered lively if polarised debates about “land grabbing”. Less attention has been paid, however, to alternative … structuring agricultural investments that do not involve large-scale land acquisitions. These include a wide range of more collaborative …
Publication, 01 June 2010
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Making Land Rights More Secure: International workshop for researchers and policymakers. Ouagadougou, 19-21 March 2002: CD-Rom
… results of recent research and practical experience in the area of land tenure security. Researchers, decision-makers, leaders of farmers’ … essential to work out appropriate rules governing competition for land. Negotiations between the state and farmers’ organisations, some … society organisations and experts in the debate on agriculture and land tenure. …
Publication, 01 January 2006
People sitting around a meeting table
Quel rôle les institutions de gouvernance locale jouent-t-elles dans le renforcement de la voix des femmes dans la gouvernance foncière ?
… Land acquisitions and rights … What works for women’s land rights? …
Insight, 08 March 2021
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Changes in "Customary" Land Tenure Systems in Africa
… Across rural Africa, land legislation struggles to be properly implemented, and most resource users gain access to land on the basis of local land tenure systems. There is growing … have adopted legislation that strengthens protection for local land rights. This raises the need to understand what is happening to land …
Publication, 01 March 2007
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Gaining Rights of Access to Land in West-Central Côte d’Ivoire
… This paper describes the various means by which people gain access to land in two study sites in central Côte d’Ivoire. As in many other parts … of in-migration into former forested areas, with people seeking land to establish coffee and cocoa holdings. As forest has been cut down and land has become scarcer, the terms on which incomers can acquire access …
Publication, 01 January 2001
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Femmes et foncier au Sénégal : promouvoir une gouvernance inclusive et participative
… Land acquisitions and rights …
Publication, 15 February 2023
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Strengthening women's voices in the context of agricultural investments: Lessons from Tanzania
… Institute for Environment and Development’s (IIED) ‘Gender, land and accountability in the context of agricultural and other natural … livelihood opportunities by empowering them in relation to community land stewardship and increasing their ability to hold agricultural … land and investments; and recommendations on how to work towards land rights securing and better inclusion in land governance processes for …
Publication, 01 July 2016
People gesture and point at a man with a microphone.
G8 summit: A revolutionary agenda
… this speech : “No conflict, access to markets, transparency, property rights, the rule of law, the absence of corruption, a free media, free … push for more transparency on who owns companies, on who’s buying up land and for what purpose.” The report of the High Level Panel on the … to policy debates about transparency and governance in land acquisitions and extractive industries. “G8 leaders need to see …
Insight, 14 June 2013