This note provides guidance for businesses to identify and address legacy land issues in agricultural investments.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresnovembre, 2016Global
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Harnessing the law for fairer agricultural investments
Documents de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2017GlobalThis LEGEND bulletin takes stock of some of the recent experience in legal empowerment. The result is a kaleidoscope of approaches operating at different levels, but pursuing broadly converging agendas.
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Can technology revolutionise efforts to secure land rights?
Documents de politique et mémoiresmars, 2017GlobalThis LEGEND bulletin considers the impact that new technology can have on documenting land rights and democratising access to land data around the world.
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Harnessing Political Economy Analysis
Documents de politique et mémoiresjuin, 2017GlobalThis briefing note explores how political economy analysis can help practitioners make sense of the issues, and distils insights from practical experience on how legal empowerment initiatives can rise to the challenge.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresmars, 2018Global
This note is for private sector project implementers and financers (development finance institutions, international development agencies, commercial lenders and equity investors) seeking to invest responsibly in new greenfield sites in low and middle- income countries. It aims to provide practical guidance on identifying and addressing community land conflicts to prevent them escalating into disputes between the project and local communities.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresmai, 2018Global
This LEGEND bulletin explores early experiences and emerging lessons from four of these projects, and includes testimony from community members attesting to their positive results.
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Assess the Risks with QTR verified data
Documents de politique et mémoiresmai, 2018AfriqueResearch shows that land disputes are increasingly common, exposing businesses to severe risks at the project level. The problem is endemic and growing – companies want evidence-based approaches to address this new reality and understand their exposure to risk. The Quantifying Tenure Risk (QTR) financial model blends verified company data with detailed case research to accurately assess tenure risk and provide tailored support to investors and businesses.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresmai, 2015Global
Over the past 15 years, tens of millions of hectares of land have been acquired by large investors in developing countries. The Land Matrix documented 1,037 transnational land deals covering 37,842,371 hectares during this period, while many more deals remain undocumented.1 This global land rush is causing widespread forced evictions and denial of access to key land and natural resources for millions of women, small- scale food producers, pastoralists, gatherers, forest dwellers, fisherfolk, and tribal and indigenous peoples.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjuin, 2015Afrique, Malawi, Nigéria, Sénégal, République-Unie de Tanzanie
Ten African countries have signed up to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition – the G8 countries’ main strategy for supporting agriculture in Africa that was launched in 2012. As the New Alliance has been under way for three years, some of its likely impacts are becoming clearer. This briefing – covering Nigeria, Malawi, Tanzania and Senegal – shows that some large companies involved in the New Alliance are already accused of taking part in land grabs in some countries.
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A Comparative Analysis of National Laws and Regulations Concerning Women's Rights to Community Forests
Documents de politique et mémoiresmai, 2017Afrique, AsieUp to 2.5 billion people hold and use the world’s community lands, yet the tenure rights of women—who comprise more than half the population of the world’s Indigenous Peoples and local communities—are seldom acknowledged or protected by national laws.
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