This is the PDF version of an online data story published by Land Portal on 28 April 2022.

Colonial and apartheid land dispossession in South Africa was the most extensive of any country in sub-saharan Africa. Despite a land reform programme initiated after the transition to democracy in 1994, equitable access to land remains an unresolved question in both urban and rural areas.

The Support to Responsible Agricultural Investments (S2RAI) Project promotes internationally recognized principles and guidelines to ensure food and land tenure security for communities in the context of large-scale commercial land investment as well as strengthen the institutional frameworks and coordination structures at federal and regional levels in relations to responsible agricultural investment in Ethiopia.

This list of bibliographic references is an accompanying piece to the data story written by Daniel Hayward and published by the Land Portal on 12 May 2022.

Tenure risk – or the risk of dispute between investors and local people over land or natural resource claims – is endemic in emerging markets. There are hundreds of recorded incidents of tenure disputes creating delays;violence, project cancellation and even bankruptcy at a corporate level. These tenure disputes create lose-lose outcomes for investors;local people and national governments;while robbing emerging markets of the developmental benefits of responsible land investments. However;many investors are unaware of the problem or lack the time and resources to address it.

The reality that significant improvements in security of tenure at scale in rural Africa are still needed nearly a decade after the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land;Fisheries and Forests (VGGT) suggests a need to explore its limitations and consider what it would take to realize its objectives. The article documents significant impacts of the VGGT reform processes and highlights illustrative or “one-off” results.

This is the PDF version of an online data story published by Land Portal on 12 May 2022.

Maize is a key global cash crop, produced in every continent except Antarctica. As a flex crop, it has multiple uses including for direct human consumption, as an ingredient for animal feed, as a key component in processed foods, or in ethanol production. According to figures from FAOSTAT, global production increased from 0.2 to 1.2 billion tons between 1961 and 2020.

In the last two decades, the best agricultural lands in Bolivia have been put into commercial production by large-scale producers closely linked to foreign investors, particularly Brazilians. Foreigners now control more than one million hectares of prime agricultural and ranching lands in Bolivia, primarily in the eastern lowland department of Santa Cruz, an important agroexport region dominated by transnational corporations and what has been termed “trans-Latina” corporations or TLCs.

Respecter le consentement préalable, donné librement et en connaissance de cause est un droit collectif qui appartient à tout membre d’une communauté. Cela signifie que les communautés ont le droit de prendre des décisions par leurs propres représentants librement choisis et leurs institutions, coutumières ou autres, telles que les autorités locales et les élus locaux. Ce guide d'accompagnement doit être utilisé pour des formations en consentement libre, préalable et en connaissance de cause.

Ce guide est le fruit d’une formation portant sur le consentement préalable, donné librement et en connaissance de cause (CPLCC) et le partage d’autres outils développés au niveau local qui s’est tenue les 2 et 3 mai 2018 à Kayes au Mali*. Cette formation a réuni une cinquantaine de participants, venant des organisations paysannes, des groupements de femmes et de jeunes, des élus locaux, des ONG et des services techniques régionaux. Elle a permis à ces différents acteurs d’analyser le processus du CPLCC dans le contexte local pour renforcer la gouvernance foncière au Mali.

Ce guide est le produit d’une formation qui s’est tenue à Boghé en Mauritanie, du 24 au 25 avril 2018 sur le CPLCC et sur le partage des outils développés par des partenaires locaux pour améliorer la gouvernance foncière locale du pays. Environ 50 participants ont assisté à la formation, notamment des représentants du gouvernement et des autorités locales, des organisations de producteurs et des coopératives de femmes.

Ce guide est le fruit d’une série de sessions de renforcement des capacités sur le Consentement Préalable, donné librement et en connaissance de cause (CPLCC) organisé par la FAO et l’Agence Foncière Agricole (AFA) entre mai et novembre 2018*.

Large-scale land acquisition projects by foreign investors, also known as “land grabbing,” raise difficult questions about the processes of valuing land in Sub-Saharan Africa that the current literature does not sufficiently explore. Land acquisitions can help developing countries like Tanzania achieve their economic and development goals. Nonetheless, it can also threaten local livelihoods and well-being due to displacement, lack of access to natural capital, and conflicts between land users.