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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.

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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.

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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.

Blog post

One Company’s Journey to Better Respect Land: Illovo Sugar Africa

Malawi

Mozambique

Tanzania

Zambia

South Africa

Global

Our sugar is made from sugarcane. And sugarcane is not planted in trees or in the air, it’s planted in the ground, in the soil, on land. It’s the bedrock of our investment.

—Illovo Land Champion

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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 gven country over the period 2000-2015.

Measurement unit:

Hectares (ha)

Source: Land Matrix

Library

Responsible Land Investment Lessons from five years of LEGEND CLST

Institutional & promotional materials

March 2020

Global

There are different visions of what constitutes responsible land investment (RLI) and how to successfully implement it, but it is clear that legal compliance alone is not enough. This resource covers 7 Responsible Land Investment key lessons.

Natural Habitats Group in Sierra Leone: Evolution of Company Perspectives, Policies and Practice

Reports & Research

March 2020

Sierra Leone

This document compiles four short reports and reflection pieces produced by Natural Habitats Group (NHG) during their involvement in a LEGEND project in Sierra Leone implemented by Solidaridad, which aimed to ensure that an NHG land based investment, undertaken by group member company Natural Habitats Sierra Leone Ltd (NHSL) to develop a large oil palm plantation respected existing community me

Approaches to land rights documentation and mapping to protect local people’s land rights in agricultural investment contexts

Reports & Research

March 2020

Sub-Saharan Africa

Mozambique

Tanzania

Sierra Leone

This paper is one of three thematic case studies resulting from a set of pilot projects undertaken jointly by civil society and private business partners from 2016–2019 in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Organizations working on Land & Investments

Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR) (DAR)

Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR) es una organización civil sin fines de lucro que desde sus inicios, en el año 2004, ha realizado acciones para contribuir al desarrollo del país a partir del manejo y aprovechamiento sostenible de sus recursos naturales y la gestión del medio ambiente en la Amazonía.

Oxfam Country office Vietnam

Oxfam is a world-wide development organisation that mobilizes the strength and voice of people against poverty, inequality and injustice.

Oxfam’s vision is a just world without poverty: a world in which people can influence decisions that affect their lives, enjoy their rights, and assume their responsibilities as full citizens of a world in which all human beings are valued and treated equally.

International Journal of Social Science Studies (IJSSS)

International Journal of Social Science Studies journal encourages and publishes research and studies in the field of Anthropology, Archaeology, Area Studies, Communication Studies, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Economics, Education, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Management, Philosophy,Political Science, Psychology, Sociology.

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Harewelle International Limited

Harewelle International Limited is an international development consultancy committed to poverty alleviation and supporting sustainable growth through capacity building.