Items tagged:
Agribusiness
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Agricultural contracts and farmer agency: a shift in perspective
Support initiatives should assist farmers’ own efforts to renegotiate trading relations, rather than assuming producers gain most from integration in agribusiness-led activities
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Assisting communities to seek legal redress for land rights violations
With increased pressures on natural resources shifting resource control in favour of commercial interests, IIED is helping communities affected by land rights violations to assert their rights.
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Supporting small-scale farmers in negotiations with agribusiness
Unequal bargaining power often characterises the relationship between small-scale rural producers and agribusinesses. A recent IIED webinar discussed ways to protect and support farmers when negotiating with companies
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How to support small-scale farmers in negotiations with agribusiness
This webinar on 16 April 2018 discussed how small-scale farmers can be supported when negotiating with companies
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Legal empowerment: what we do, what we've learned
If you missed the recent policy forum on legal empowerment, fear not: here Lorenzo Cotula recaps on what characterises IIED's approach and shares his top three lessons learned
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IIED webinar: improving accountability in agribusiness investments
This webinar on 6 June 2017 discussed how rural people can increase the accountability in agribusiness investments, looking at examples from Cameroon, Ghana and Senegal
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Commodity cycles, economic treaties and pressures on land rights
The commodity slump has cooled the global land rush. But land rights are still under pressure, requiring action at local to global levels
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Holding actors in agricultural investment chains to account
When communities lose access to land, or their livelihoods, as a result of large agricultural investment projects, what can they do? An IIED webinar examined how mapping out the investment chains and using 'pressure points' can help
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IIED to host webinar on promoting accountability in agricultural investment chains
This webinar on 11 September 2015 discussed how communities groups can take action to get increased accountability in agricultural investment chains
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IIED animation to help communities protect legal rights
IIED has released a new animation designed to help local communities protect their rights in the face of large-scale land acquisitions
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Addressing the interplay between agribusiness investments and ape conservation
Recent years have witnessed a new wave of large-scale acquisitions for agribusiness investments in Africa and Asia. Countries that house a large proportion of the world's biodiversity and ape habitats and populations have lost areas of high biodiversity land to commercial agriculture. Despite much effort at local, national and global levels, evidence on the exact scale, location and coverage of agribusiness investments remains patchy and often unreliable
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Invest in farmers, not in farmland
"Land grabs" are now one of the biggest issues in Africa.
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Can small-scale farmers feed the world?
The world’s food systems are being squeezed from all sides: rising populations and shifting diets are increasing the global demand for food, while food production is increasingly compromised by climate change and land degradation.
