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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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

Don’t forget the smallholder! Finding inclusivity in land investments

Reports & Research

April 2021

South-Eastern Asia

Cambodia

Indonesia

Malaysia

Singapore

This is the report of a webinar which took place on 25th February 2021 organized by the Land Portal Foundation.

Inclusionary Housing: An Evaluation of a New Public Rental Housing Governance Instrument in China

Journal Articles & Books

March 2021

Inclusionary housing (IH) is a regulatory instrument adopted by local governments in many countries to produce affordable housing by capturing resources created through the marketplace. In order to assess whether it is efficient, scholarly attention has been widely focused on its evaluation. However, there is a lack of studies evaluating IH from a governance perspective.

Sustainable Tourism and Natural Protected Areas: Exploring Local Population Perceptions in a Post-Conflict Scenario

Peer-reviewed publication

March 2021

El Salvador

The expansion of urban areas around the world and the application of the sustainability paradigm to tourism discourses has favored an increase in the number of people visiting natural protected areas (NPAs) in their leisure time.

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land investment library resources on the Land Portal

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Organizations working on Land & Investments

Editora UFS (Editora UFS)

A Editora UFS, composta pelo Conselho Editorial e pela Coordenação Gráfica, tem como missão atuar na divulgação da produção cultural e científica tanto da comunidade universitária quanto da sociedade como um todo. Através do lançamento periódico de editais e da publicação de obras avulsas, esta Editora tem realizado um trabalho de divulgação de obras científicas e culturais produzidas por autores sergipanos e do restante do Brasil.

Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG)

O ISEG tem por missão a criação, transmissão e valorização social e económica do conhecimento e da cultura nos domínios das ciências económicas, financeiras e empresariais, num quadro de pluralidade e de garantia de liberdade intelectual e científica, de respeito pela ética e de responsabilidade social.

Palladium

Palladium is in the business of making the world a better place, and we believe that collaborative models and systemic approaches are the way to achieve progress and success.

It's no longer enough to pursue social progress or commercial growth. In fact, we don't believe you can have one without the other. When you have both, that's what we call "Positive Impact".

United Nations Global Compact

The world's largestcorporate sustainability initiative

A call to companies to align strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and take actions that advance societal goals.

At the UN Global Compact, we aim to mobilize a global movement of sustainable companies and stakeholders to create the world we want. That’s our vision.

To make this happen, the UN Global Compact supports companies to: