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Membawa koherensi antara pendekatan berbasis hak pada tata kelola iklim dan investasi Indonesia
… Land acquisitions and rights …
Publication, 15 August 2023
Kenya: Community-based marine area holds some important lessons for policy makers
… I spoke to. The Kenyan government have been supportive in devolving rights and control to the community through the use of Beach Management … ways to earn a living. KCWA attempted to purchase an area of coastal land through donor funding in order to build a tourism “banda” (basic … coming to visit the area. The plan failed. They found out that the land, which had been used for generations of fisherman as a landing site …
Insight, 14 November 2011
An orangutan swinging between trees
Addressing the interplay between agribusiness investments and ape conservation
… Land acquisitions and rights …
Project, 10 October 2014
A group of men having a discussion
Legal tools: sharing lessons from innovation
… in investment processes. These range from grassroots action to claim rights, engage in legal reforms and international policy debates, to … accountable , 6 June 2017 Using community by-laws to secure customary land rights in Kenya , 16 November 2016 Using online technology to empower communities facing land deals , 4 August 2016 Enhancing women’s role in land management …
Article, 09 October 2014
Leaders of the Southern Aberdare Conservation Network (SACN) discussing support from the Forest and Farm Facility (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Taking the brakes off forest farm development in Kenya
… it to restoring forests such that they cover 10 per cent of Kenya's land area while also improving rural livelihoods. Since 80 per cent of … making forestry work is a food security issue. With little public land available, the onus to deliver falls to people growing trees … increases. Kenya, in common with many countries, is revisiting legal rights and responsibilities and devolving power over land use to the …
Insight, 11 November 2014
An excerpt from the Challenging the constitutionality of adverse laws: Success stories from Indonesia webinar
Striking down adverse investment laws: success stories from Indonesia
… natural resources fairer and more sustainable in order to protect the rights of citizens and the environment. IIED's Legal Tools for Citizen … provisions of the law that authorised the granting of very long-term land rights to investors. Instead, the law now defers to the Agrarian … Court held, discriminated against indigenous peoples as land title holders. Watch the two presentations: …
Insight, 25 March 2014
Biofuels boom risks increasing landlessness among world's poor
… production can also allow poor groups to increase their access to land and improve their livelihoods if the right policies are in place. … in mitigating climate change, promoting deforestation and taking land formerly used to produce food. The report shows that that … can benefit poor producers but only if they have secure land rights," says Cotula. "In many places the rush to produce biofuels takes …
News, 02 June 2008
Delegates at the 4th Session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in West Africa (Photo: GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS water ministers agree to build fairer dams
… that the benefits generated by dams rarely reach local people whose rights and livelihoods are most directly affected. At Kandadji in Niger … frameworks to grant local populations benefits such as agricultural land, electricity, drinking water, pasture and fisheries.  Following the … affected into deeper poverty or worse, sparking more conflict over land and natural resources. The risk of conflict is not restricted to …
News, 16 December 2015
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Share Contracts in the Oil Palm and Citrus Belt of Ghana
… the importance of different arrangements for gaining access to land for farmers in southern Ghana. Share contracts are common, having … represented the dominant means by which people negotiate access to land. Such share contracts have evolved over time, to accommodate changing availability of land and labour, and the emergence of new crop opportunities. They must …
Publication, 01 January 2001
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Des îlots de responsabilité ? L'approvisionnement des entreprises en cobalt artisanal en République démocratique du Congo
… Land acquisitions and rights …
Publication, 22 September 2021