Land & Investments narrative

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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News & Blogs

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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

Are land rental markets responding to rising population pressures and land scarcity in sub-Saharan Africa?

Peer-reviewed publication

February 2021

Ethiopia

Malawi

Tanzania

Central African Republic

Although still at incipient stages in most areas, agricultural land markets in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are growing rapidly. While the literature on the region’s land markets is expanding, there has been little attention thus far paid to the drivers of land rental prices.

Expanding commodity frontiers and the emergence of customary land markets: A case study of tree-crop farming in Venda, South Africa

Peer-reviewed publication

February 2021

Southern Africa

South Africa

Contemporary discourses on customary land tenure in Africa, and South Africa in particular, have emphasized the socially embedded and flexible nature of customary land rights, recognising these as inherently more ‘pro-poor’ than individual titling.

Mapping of the Land Cover Changes in High Mountains of Western Carpathians between 1990–2018: Case Study of the Low Tatras National Park (Slovakia)

Peer-reviewed publication

December 2020

Norway

Slovakia

At present, the protection of nature and landscape in the high mountains of the Western Carpathians, protected as national parks, is becoming increasingly at the forefront of society’s interests in connection with the development of their economic use and the development of mass tourism.

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Organizations working on Land & Investments

Centro de Promoção da Agricultura (CEPAGRI)

The mission of the Agriculture Promotion Centre (Centro de Promoção da Agricultura (CEPAGRI)) is

to make underteake economic analysis to support policy decisions and guide investments in strategic areas in agriculture;
to identify and promote opportunities for investments and good practices in agribusiness;
to promote and guide private investment in commercial agriculture.

London Mining Network

London Mining Network (LMN) is an alliance of human rights, development, environmental and solidarity groups.

We work for

human rights, including the rights of Indigenous Peoples and workers, and
sustainable development (development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs in communities around the world affected by the activities of mining companies based in or funded from London

We do this by

Technical University of Kenya (TUK)

Vision
- To be a top rated University of technology
Mission
- To provide technological education and training and to contribute towards the advancement of society through research and innovation
Motto
- Education and training for the real world
Mandate

Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

A Universidade do Pará foi criada pela Lei nº 3.191, de 2 de julho de 1957, sancionada pelo Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, após cinco anos de tramitação legislativa. Congregou as sete faculdades federais, estaduais e privadas existentes em Belém: Medicina, Direito, Farmácia, Engenharia, Odontologia, Filosofia, Ciências e Letras e Ciências Econômicas, Contábeis e Atuariais.