Issues / Land & Investments
To invest responsibly in land, it is important to recognize and respect the land rights of local communities and avoid social and environmental harm.
Explore our ‘Responsible Land Investment’ pages to find out more on how to approach this, drawing from lessons learned from other projects.
Key Lessons
23 March 2023
The Ethiopian Federal Democratic Republic of Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH implemented Responsible Governance of Investment in Land (RGIL) project has organized the third Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue (MSD) on…
19 March 2023
Malaysian states that offer land in strategic locations for free or at a nominal premium rate will be given priority by the government in the construction of people’s housing projects
14 March 2023
Lao villagers worry that compensation for Pak Beng Dam will be too low
Durationaab: January 2014 - December 2019
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
While still one of the poorest countries in the world, Ethiopia has made many advances in reducing the level of poverty and increasing agricultural production. The pace of these advances however, is constrained by inefficiencies in the rural land sector and weak documentation and management of land
Durationaab: January 2013 - January 2014
Value: $990,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
USAID’s Economic Prosperity Initiative (EPI) supported a working group to develop the Land Registration Strategy and Action Plan. The draft strategy addresses the need to establish policies that deal effectively with all types of owners who received land as part of the original land privatization pr
Durationaab: January 2012 - January 2017
Value: $3,000,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
The Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP), which is supported by USAID and the World Bank, has four components: (1) Strengthening investment promotion infrastructure, facilitating secure access to land. This component promotes a secure investment climate that clarifies and strengthens the righ
Durationaab: October 2016 - March 2019
Value: £221,184.00
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The project supported women in 14 communities incorporating 23 villages across two Districs in Northern Mozambique to get secure access to land/trees and an improved income from those trees. The Project achieved this by: obtaining secure access rights to Baobab trees through the development of natur
Durationaab: November 2017 - April 2019
Value: £590,480.00
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Working in collaboration with TMP Systems, Bonsucro sought to test and disseminate a new approach to sustainability monitoring and reporting in the sugar sector which fully integrated land tenure issues while producing reliable, consistent and near-real-time data at a low and affordable cost. It did
Durationaab: September 2016 - December 2019
Value: £404,119.00
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The SPIRAL-Project aimed to test and further develop the concept of the Cocoa Production Cluster (CPC) as a responsible approach to investment in agricultural land in Sierra Leone. The CPC model aimed to retain land under customary ownership throughout, without reducing community land access fo
21 February 2023
A review of four recent articles about an underexplored issue: the reasons for large-scale land deals to fail and what that means for communities and society
17 November 2022
In September 2022, Sierra Leone enacted unprecedented laws related to land, climate, and sustainable development. This new law transforms communities’ ability to protect their land rights and pursue sustainable development. This webinar will discuss the processes, the experiences, the challenges,…
