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Land acquisitions

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Archive of completed law, economies and justice projects

Article, 11 June 2020

Q&A: helping communities protect their land rights

Article, 27 January 2020

Assisting communities to seek legal redress for land rights violations

Article

Land cleared for palm oil in Riau Province, Indonesia. Only half of Riau's palm oil plantations have official permits (Photo: Wakx, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Law in the natural resource squeeze: 'land grabbing', investment treaties and human rights

Article, 13 October 2016

Coming in for lunch in the rice fields near Inle Lake, Myanmar. Online databases can provide verified data on land conflicts and help resolve disputes and improve governance (Eric Brochu, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Using online technology to empower communities facing land deals

Insight, 04 August 2016

Clearing forest for a palm oil plantation in Borneo (Photo: Rainforest Action Network, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Commodity cycles, economic treaties and pressures on land rights

Insight, 25 May 2016

Participatory community mapping and community land protection can yield tangible results for poor and vulnerable populations (Photo: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)

Next steps to strengthen global land governance

Insight, 15 May 2016

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

Insight, 20 October 2015

The new OpenLandContracts.org database will contain the details of publicly available investment contracts from around the world (Image: Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment (CCSI))

New online database of investment contracts hailed as a "game changer"

News, 06 October 2015

A gate blocks access to the customary lands of the Long Teran Kanan people in Sarawack. Malaysia has seen a huge expansion of oil palm plantations backed by international investors. The customary rights of local people are often ignored (Photo: Wakx, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Investment treaties, land rights and a shrinking planet

Insight, 08 July 2015

Tanzania: Moving beyond ‘land grab’ rhetoric to finding solutions

Insight, 05 April 2012

Invest in farmers, not in farmland

Insight, 22 February 2012

African governments signing away water rights for decades

News, 24 November 2011

'Land grabbing' in the shadow of the law in Africa

Insight, 13 October 2011

REDD+ in Mozambique: new opportunity for land grabbers?

Insight, 15 September 2011

Biomass: boon or bane?

Insight, 31 August 2011

Rising demand for renewable energy could drive more land grabs

News, 30 August 2011

‘Land grabs’ in Africa: is there an alternative?

Insight, 08 March 2011

Open letter to Bill Gates on African land acquisitions

News, 11 February 2011

Report shows how secret land deals can fail to benefit African nations – and how to make them better

News, 31 January 2011

IIED's director Camilla Toulmin discusses 'land-grabs' on Guardian podcast

News, 28 January 2011

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