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Analytical Framework for Land-Based Investments in African Agriculture - Due Diligence and Risk Management for Land-Based Investments in Agriculture

LandLibrary Resource
Manuals & Guidelines
Julio, 2015
Africa

The Analytical Framework is a tool designed to help investors ensure that their land-based investments are inclusive, sustainable, transparent, and respect human rights. It can help investors and companies assess whether a project is adhering to best practices, and if not, to find out how to address deficiencies.

Respecting Land and Forest Rights: Risks, Opportunities and a Guide for Companies

LandLibrary Resource
Training Resources & Tools
Julio, 2015
Global

This Guide is complementary to the Interlaken Group's 'Respecting Land and Forest Rights: a Guide for Companies'. It provides guidance on what companies can do to reduce risk through improve tenure governance in land-based investment, reflecting the principles of responsible governance of land tenure set out in the VGGT.

Do Modo de Vida Camponês à Pluriactividade – Impacto do Assalariamento Urbano na Economia Familiar Rural

LandLibrary Resource
Reports & Research
Junio, 2015
Mozambique

Os últimos anos têm sido acompanhados pela implementação de grandes projectos económicos, geradores de um novo dinamismo em cidades como Maputo, Tete ou Nacala. As comunidades camponesas mais próximas destas áreas de implementação enfrentam uma dinâmica dicotómica.

Zimbabwe’s new land crisis: Large-scale land investments at Chisumbanje

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Reports & Research
Junio, 2015
Zimbabwe
África

Report based on fieldwork in Chisumbanje seeks to understand: 1) the interest and role of the Zimbabwe Government and its contribution to the first large-scale private investments undertaken by GreenFuel in Chisumbanje; 2) the impact of the project on local communities’ land rights and livelihoods; 3) the role of the local institutions in facilitating and mediating investment, particularly on l

Asian People’s Land Rights Tribunal: Land Rights are Human Rights

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Conference Papers & Reports
Mayo, 2015
Asia

This publication contains the struggles of four cases presented by the aggrieved communities in Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, and deliberated by an international panel of experts during the Asian People’s Land Rights Tribunal. These cases have all exhausted various grievance mechanisms, seeking justice for the violations committed on people’s land and human rights.

IBA Community Toolkit: Negotiation and Implementation of impact and benefit agreements

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Manuals & Guidelines
Mayo, 2015
Canada

This toolkit provides guidance on the making of fair arrangements that guarantee local benefits to community negotiators and consultants who work with Indigenous communities in Canada. This involves negotiation techniques and strategies. It focuses primarily on the mining sector, but it will be useful in the context of other sectors and contexts too.

Farmland Investments and Water Rights: The legal regimes at stake

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Reports & Research
Mayo, 2015
África

Report brings together the multiple legal strands that weave together and form the context of farmland investments and water rights. Farmland investments are about much more than simple commercial land transactions; they have great impacts on the amount of water available for local communities and other states.

The Neoliberal Agricultural Modernization Model: A Fundamental Cause for Large-Scale Land Acquisition and Counter Land Reform Policies in the Mekong Region

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Conference Papers & Reports
Abril, 2015
Camboya
Laos
Myanmar
Viet Nam

This conference paper examines how the ideology and programmatic set of policies coined in the term ‘neoliberal modernization’ applies to agriculture and practices in the Mekong region.