Brendan Schwartz

Senior researcher, Natural Resources

Brendan’s work focuses on enhancing rural communities’ participation in shaping natural resource policies and practice.

Full biography

Expertise

Land tenure, mining, legal redress, legal empowerment, land-based investments, agriculture value chains.

Before IIED

Prior to joining IIED, Brendan worked for the University of Guelph as a research consultant on the study the politics of commodities in Central Africa. He has also consulted for international development institutions and NGOs in West and Central Africa.

Education
MSc Globalisation and Development, SOAS; BA International Relations, Connecticut College

Current work

Land tenure reform in Cameroon, agriculture value chains in Malawi, legal redress mechanisms, mining in Mali and under the sea.

Brendan Schwartz's projects

A water connection project built to link the Lobé river to the Kribi harbour, South Region, Cameroon (Photo: Thierry Berger)

LandCam: securing land and resource rights and improving governance in Cameroon

Project, May 2017

Recent publications

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Redress for land and resource rights violations: a legal empowerment agenda

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Are development finance institutions equipped to address land rights issues? A stocktake of practice in agriculture

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Actors of change: can socio-legal empowerment support rural producer agency?

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Rural producer agency and agricultural value chains: What role for socio-legal empowerment?

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Projet de réforme minière au Mali : trois secteurs clés à améliorer

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Revising Mali’s mining code: three key areas for improvement

Brendan Schwartz's blog posts

Screengrab of a map of indigenous peoples’ territories in the Peruvian Amazon (Image: IBC Peru)

Creating a global 'land rights family': from knowledge to action

Blog, Mar 2018

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