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FOREIGN INVESTMENT, LARGE-SCALE LAND DEALS, AND UNCERTAIN “DEVELOPMENT“ IN SIERRA LEONE

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2015
Africa, Sierra Leone
Land in post-conflict settings
land governance
compensation
land investments
foreign investment
land deals
land rights
Sierra Leone recently attracted significant inflows of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in export-oriented mining and agribusiness. These investments have usually involved large-scale land deals with local communities that have been facilitated and brokered by government officials, local politicians, and paramount chiefs. Affected people and communities were supposed to receive compensations for lost land and, in addition, they expected to find gainful employment opportunities with multinational companies.
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Chinese Agricultural and Land Investments in Southeast Asia: A Preliminary Overview of Trends

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Thailand
Land & Investments
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
land investments
land acquisitions
land grabbing
As BRICS-led foreign investment in agriculture has increased dramatically worldwide in recent years, China in particular, has begun to secure huge quantities of foreign land as an additional measure for securing future food and energy supplies. While an increasing amount of academic research has been conducted on the expansion of land deals in Latin America and Africa in recent years, Southeast Asian cases are just beginning to receive significant attention and have become the focus of some emerging academic and non-academic research.
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Land-based climate change mitigation, land grabbing and conflict: understanding intersections and linkages, exploring actions for change

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Global
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
legal empowerment
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
environment
land investments
land acquisitions
Recent research highlights the potential for climate change mitigation projects and large-scale land deals to produce conflicts over land and resources. However, this literature generally views climate change policies and land grabbing as separate processes, and focuses on discrete areas where displacement or contested claims occur. We argue that additional research strategies are needed to understand the social and ecological spill-over effects that take place within larger areas where land-based climate change projects (e.g.
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Access to Basic services August 2015 The Health Status of the Urban Poor in Kenya

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2015
Kenya
housing rights
land allocation
urban areas
Evidence from the first Nairobi Cross-sectional Slum Survey (NCSS) conducted in the city by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) in 2000 revealed that slum residents have the worst health outcomes of any group in Kenya (including rural residents). They have limited access to basic facilities such as water and sanitation, or opportunities for life such as education and employment, and that they endure the near absence of the public sector and law enforcement agencies in their daily lives.
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Discussion document on the preservation and development of agricultural land

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2015
South Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
agricultural land management
sustainable development
food security
agriculture
rural areas
rural development
poverty
environment
land reform
forestry
fisheries
natural resources management
agrarian reform
land access
land acquisitions
The preservation, development and sustainable use of agricultural land are of vital importance to ensure longterm food security in South Africa. These principles of food security as well as an integrated, inclusive rural economy underpin the core focus areas of the National Development Plan, Vision 2030 (NDP).
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Trying to follow the Money: Possibilities and limits of investor transparency in Southeast Asia’s rush for “available” land

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Cambodia, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
concession (land)
land investments
land
land management
This study uses publicly available financial and spatial data to examine the geography of land-intensive investment in Southeast Asia, and to identify the
limits imposed by problems with data availability. It focuses on three regions where land has been widely seen to be available for new investment: Indonesia’s outer islands; the “development triangle” where Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam meet; and the Golden Quadrangle region which comprises the borderlands of northeastern Myanmar, northwestern Laos, southern and western Yunnan, and northern Thailand.
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Karamoja Sub region Uganda

Communal Land Associations claim compensations for investments in their territory

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2016
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
communal ownership
community land rights
compulsory acquisitions
customary law
land access
Since Karamoja is richly endowed with gold, marble, iron ore, tungsten, limestone, oil and gas, it has attracted many investors, in particular since the protracted armed conflicts in northern Uganda started fading away. Approximately 1 7,000 km2 or 62% of the total land area of Karamoja has been licensed for mineral exploration and exploitation (Kabiswa, 2014).
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Intersections of Climate Change Mitigation Policies, Land Grabbing and Conflict in a Fragile State: Insights from Cambodia

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Cambodia
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
environment
land investments
land acquisitions
land policies
land law
Thirty years after Cambodia’s ‘democratization’ by the United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTAC), the transition to a market-based economy is raging at full steam. Democracy remains elusive, but policy interventions from Cambodia’s “development partners” color the political, social, and environmental landscapes. This paper attends to the land grabs characteristic of market transitions and to the climate change mitigation strategies currently enhancing conflicts over land and resources in contemporary Cambodia.
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Food Security and Land Governance Factsheet Kenya

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2015
Kenya
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
communal ownership
community land rights
food security
forest land
forest law
formal tenure
gender equity in access to land
indigenous peoples' land rights
indigenous peoples' lands
indigenous people's tenure
land access
land acquisitions
land administration
land allocation
land governance
land tenure
land tenure systems
private ownership
public ownership
tenure regularization
water management
water rights
youth
In Kenya, insecure land tenure and inequitable access to land, forest and water resources have contributed to conflict and violence, which has in turn exacerbated food insecurity. To address these interlinked problems, a new set of laws and policies on food security and land governance are currently being introduced or designed by the Government of Kenya. The new Food Security Bill explicitly recognizes the link between food security and land access, and the 2012 land laws target the corrupt system of land administration that made much of Kenya’s land grabbing possible.
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Land matters: The role of land policies and laws for environmental migration in Kenya

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2016
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
eminent domain
encroachment
environment
intensive land use
land administration
land use
land use mapping
land-use planning
rights of clearance
riparian rights
sustainable land use
tenant's rights
use rights
water management
water rights
Matters of environmental migration are frequently looked at from a humanitarian perspective.1 This policy brief will instead look at it with a lens focusing on land issues. The question of environmental migration is inevitably linked to the question of land for several reasons. First, climate and environmental change trigger and accelerate the loss of land due to sea-level rise, coastal erosion, landslides and other forms of land degradation.