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Land & Investments

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Investments in agriculture and other sectors that require land may be essential for economic development and food security, but what are the costs and benefits for local landholders and the environment?" Read more about challenges concerning land & investments.

Responsible 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.

Highlighted developments

News

Kachin residents fearful of losing land to secretive China-backed industrial project

7 July 2020

China, Myanmar

The Yunnan-based company has been criticised as secretive as some question whether it is equipped to run such a project

Main photo: The entrance to Namjin village seen on March 6 (Photo- Chan Thar/ Myanmar Now)

Blog post

Land rights and investments: why business standards are not enough

Global

International standards can help businesses fill gaps in national law, but addressing issues at scale requires systemic governance reform.

News

New Land and Investments Portfolio Features Tools for Responsible Land Investments

18 March 2020

Africa, Global

The nature and scale of investments in land in developing countries has divided opinion many contexts, especially where local people depend on access to land for agriculture.

Blog post

Land rights for cocoa farmers aren’t just good stewardship, they’re smart business

Africa

Ghana

Latin America and the Caribbean

Asia

Global

Last week the World Cocoa Foundation, a membership organization of more than 100 cocoa companies, held its annual partnership meeting in Berlin, Germany. The aim of the meeting is for governments, cocoa companies and farmers to identify and tackle the sector’s largest sustainability challenges. A 90-minute session was devoted to the topic of land tenure. The prominence of the session, as well as the seniority of the presenters – the Head of Sustainable Sourcing for Hershey’s and the Deputy Director General of Cote d’Ivoire’s Land Agency among them – is a powerful signaling effect.

Blog post

Consent is Everybody’s Business: Why banks need to act on free, prior and informed consent

Africa

Latin America and the Caribbean

Asia

Global

Banks must stand with Indigenous and local communities in respecting their land rights

In 2018, every week more than three people were murdered, defending their land and environment from destructive industries like mining, logging and agribusiness. These killings represent the extreme end of a spectrum of violence and threats directed at land rights defenders.

Blog post

Forging new partnerships: Companies and CSOs collaborate to achieve more responsible investments in land

Global

I think the engagement with Illovo is a good start. … [the Project] has provided a platform for Illovo to engage with [us], which is not only a benefit to Illovo, but to the community. It opens up dialogue. In the future…, we’d love for Illovo to come to (us) and ask us to get involved.

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Total Hectares in deals

Land Matrix - Large-Scale Land Acquisitions

Total Area (ha) calculated as the sum of all deals, in a given country over the period 2000-2015.

Measurement unit:

Hectares (ha)

Source: Land Matrix

Library

Protected Area Governance and Its Influence on Local Perceptions, Attitudes and Collaboration

Peer-reviewed publication

September 2020

Global

Globally, protected areas are faced with a myriad of threats emanating principally from anthropogenic drivers, which underpins the importance of the human element in protected area management.

The Impact of Urbanization on Farmland Productivity: Implications for China’s Requisition–Compensation Balance of Farmland Policy

Peer-reviewed publication

September 2020

China

Russia

United States of America

The rapid growth of China’s economy since the reform in 1978 should be largely attributed to urbanization. Nonetheless, in terms of farmland productivity, urbanization may lead to perverse incentives and thus threaten food security.

Beyond Calendars and Maps: Rethinking Time and Space for Effective Knowledge Governance in Protected Areas

Peer-reviewed publication

September 2020

Colombia

South Africa

Southern Africa

Protected area managers rely on relevant, credible, and legitimate knowledge. However, an increase in the rate, extent, severity, and magnitude of the impacts of drivers of change (e.g., climate change, altered land use, and demand for natural resources) is affecting the response capacity of managers and their agencies.

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Organizations working on Land & Investments

Cadasta Foundation

Reviving Documentation of Property Rights

Cadasta Foundation is dedicated to the support, continued development and growth of the Cadasta Platform – an innovative, open source suite of tools for the collection and management of ownership, occupancy, and spatial data that meets the unique challenges of this process in much of the world.

Confederação Nacional das Associações de Moradores (CONAM)

A Confederação Nacional das Associações de Moradores, fundada no dia 17 de janeiro de 1982, presente no movimento nacional popular e comunitário, tem como seu papel organizar as federações estaduais, uniões municipais e associações comunitárias, entidades de bairro e similares.

SSG Advisors LLP

SSG Advisors LLP is in the business of providing non-binding, non-discretionary investment advisory & financial advisory services to institutional / professional investors principally in special situation and distressed investments as well as private higher quality secured credit investments on a non-exclusive basis.

South East Asia Journal of Contemporary Business, Economics and Law (SEAJBEL)

South East Asian Journal of Contemporary Business, Economics and Law (SEAJBEL), an open-access journal, is peer-reviewed and published in April, August and December annually. The journal accepts contributions in English only. SEAJBEL is providing scholars the best in theory, research, and methodology as well as providing platform to professionals and academics to share their ideas, knowledge and findings particularly in the region of South East Asia.