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

Agro-industrie : Samuel Nguiffo tire les leçons des échecs de Neo Industry et Pac dans la Vallée du Ntem

5 mai 2021

Cameroun

(Investir au Cameroun) - Le 5 mai 2021, le Premier ministre (PM), Joseph Dion Ngute, a signé un décret annulant l’incorporation dans le domaine privé de l’État de plus de 66 000 hectares de terre dans le département de la Vallée du Ntem, dans la région du Sud du Cameroun.

News

En Mauritanie, des coopératives maraîchères autonomes grâce à l'implication des paysannes

25 mai 2021

Mauritanie

Blog post

New report asks: Where’s the money going in the Niger Delta?

Nigéria

Oil companies are paying billions towards development in the Niger Delta, but it’s having little impact on the ground, say Tijah Bolton-Akpan and Miles Litvinoff.

Event

Sommet sur les systèmes alimentaires 2021

4 mai 2021

Afrique

Amériques

Asie

Europe

Océanie

Organizers:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

À propos du Sommet

Qu’est-ce que le Sommet sur les systèmes alimentaires ?

Blog post

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

Afrique

Ghana

Amérique latine et Caraïbes

Asie

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

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

Malawi

Mozambique

République-Unie de Tanzanie

Zambie

Afrique du Sud

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 given country over the period 2000-2015.

Measurement unit:

Hectares (ha)

Source: Land Matrix

Library

Récits en provenance d’Afrique: Changer des vies grâce à une alimentation saine et diversifiée

Rapports et recherches

mai 2021

Africa

Un régime alimentaire sain composé de légumes, de protéines et de fruits frais est essentiel pour éliminer la faim et toutes les formes de malnutrition et atteindre l’Objectif de développement durable 2, à savoir «Faim Zéro» à l’horizon 2030.

Rapport sur les evenements majeurs de deforestation de l’annee 2019

Rapports et recherches

mai 2021

Cameroon

Dans le cadre du Suivi du Couvert des forêts du Cameroun, le Ministère des Forêts et de la Faune (MINFOF) et le Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Protection de la Nature et du Développement Durable (MINEPDED) par le biais de l’Unité Opérationnelle de Suivi du Couvert Forestier (UOSCF) en collaboration avec son partenaire technique et financier World Resources Institute (WRI) ont éla-

Les conflits fonciers et leur résolution à l’échelle locale dans un contexte de marchandisation de la terre

Articles et Livres

Rapports et recherches

mai 2021

Madagascar

Les conflits fonciers et leur résolution à l’échelle locale dans un contexte de marchandisation de la terre. Une étude de cas dans les Hautes Terres à Madagascar.

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land investment library resources on the Land Portal

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Organizations working on Land & Investments

IPIECA

IPIECA develops, shares and promotes good practice and knowledge to help the industry and improve its environmental and social performance. We do this with the understanding that the issues that dominate the sustainable development agenda – climate and energy, environmental and social issues – are too big for individual companies to tackle alone. The industry must work together to achieve improvements that have real impact. IPIECA helps to achieve this goal.

UzInvestigations

UzInvestigations is a civic initiative administered by Ulster University in partnership with the Uzbek Forum for Human Rights. Drawing on data science, investigative methodologies, and digital analytics, UzInvestigations produces resources and analysis, which help forensically scrutinise corporate and government power in Uzbekistan. Our aim is to promote transparency, good governance, human rights, and civic engagement.

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PatryTer (PatryTer)

O periódico aceita originais em português, espanhol e inglês.

Objetivos:

Difundir o conhecimento disciplinar e interdisciplinar sobre cidades, campo, meio ambiente e os distintos processos de intervençao territorial na América Latina e Caribe.
Ampliar o espaço para publicação de artigos originais, com abordagens teóricas e metodológicas à interdisciplinares focados em questoes territoriais, paisagísticas e regionais no continente. A dimensao da América Latina deve ser valorada nos trabalhos submetidos à PatryTer.

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Bertelsmann Stiftung

The Bertelsmann Stiftung is committed to ensuring everyone can participate in society. Since the foundation was established in 1977, roughly 380 employees at our Gütersloh headquarters and other international locations have developed a wide range of projects and initiatives designed to achieve this goal.