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Rural Women Must Be at the Heart of COVID-19 Response and Recovery

September, 2020
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
land
customary tenure
women
land grabbing
eviction
farmers
A nine-minute video. Most rural people in Uganda have rights to their rural land through customary tenure arrangements;representing 75-80% of land holdings: but only 15-20% of the land is formally registered. Often women;especially widows;experience land grabbing;arbitrary eviction and poor access to justice. GLTN and others are working to help vulnerable smallholder farmers in South Western and Elgon regions through the implementation of a ‘Securing Land Tenure for Improved Food Security in select areas in Ugandaproject. The video illustrates some of this work.
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Don’t forget the smallholder! Finding inclusivity in land investments

Webinar Report | Country Insights Initiative

Reports & Research
April, 2021
South-Eastern Asia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
land information systems
land use
land investments
responsible investment
land rights
tenure regularization
tenure security
farmers
smallholders
women
This is the report of a webinar which took place on 25th February 2021 organized by the Land Portal Foundation.
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Building strong communities against land and water grabbing : a policy brief by Katosi Women Development Trust (KWDT)

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2017
Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land governance
land grabbing
land rights
land tenure
smallholders
In fishing communities the contentious acquisition of land close to water bodies is especially relevant. Water grabbing has serious implications for basic human rights including the right to water, food, health, livelihood, and self-determination. Land grabbing is driven by the desire to control and use water and fisheries resources. Globally, Uganda is among the 25 countries most affected by water grabbing.
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Are the Odds of Justice “Stacked” Against Them? Challenges and Opportunities for Securing Land Claims by Smallholder Farmers in Myanmar

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Myanmar
Land & Investments
land law
land policies
land grabbing
land ownership
tenure security
legal empowerment
smallholders
development agencies
extractive industries
In 2012, the Government of Myanmar passed the Farmland Law and the Vacant, Fallow, Virgin Land Law, with an aim to increase investment in land through the formalization of a land market. Land titling is often considered “the natural end point of land rights formalization.” A major obstacle to achieving this in Myanmar is its legacy of multiple regimes which has created “stacked laws.” This term refers to a situation in which a country has multiple layers of laws that exist simultaneously, leading to conflicts and contradictions in the legal system.
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Land Acquisition, Investment, and Development in the Lao Coffee Sector: Successes and Failures

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Laos
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
Despite the increasing acknowledgment of scholars and practitioners that many large-scale agricultural land acquisitions in developing countries fail or never materialize, empirical evidence about how and why they fail to date is still scarce. Too often, land deals are portrayed as straightforward investments and their success is taken for granted. Looking at the coffee sector in Laos, the authors of this article explore dimensions of the land grab debate that have not yet been sufficiently examined.
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Linking climate change strategies and land conflicts in Cambodia: Evidence from the Greater Aural region

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Cambodia
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
environment
This paper investigates how climate change strategies and resource conflicts are shaping each other in the Greater Aural region of western Cambodia. Agro-industrial projects linked to climate change goals are reshaping both social and ecological dynamics, by altering patterns of access to land and water resources as well as the nature of the resources themselves. Using a landscape perspective, we investigate these social and ecological changes occurring across space and time.
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Re-Asserting Control: Voluntary Return, Restitution and the Right to Land for IDPs and Refugees in Myanmar

Reports & Research
December, 2017
Myanmar
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
legal empowerment
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
farmers
ABSTRACTED FROM WEBSITE INTRODUCTION: This briefing looks at the particular situation of people displaced by armed conflict. It will do so from the perspective that displacement is complicated in its own right, but any proposed solutions to displacement must also be understood in a wider context of rapid land polarization. Failure to take this perspective risks more harm than good. For people affected by displacement, land is much more than just an economic asset.
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Large-Scale Land Acquisitions for Agricultural Development in Myanmar: A Review of Past and Current Processes

Reports & Research
December, 2018
Myanmar
Land & Investments
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
land policies
land law
WEB INTRODUCTION: The literature on agricultural large-scale land acquisition in Myanmar is rather fragmented and consists mainly of case studies. While these provide key insights into particular stories, they often fail to identify the main patterns and trends at country level. To fill such gaps, this thematic study aims to present an updated synthesis of the genealogy, institutional complexity and the ins and outs of large-scale land acquisition processes for agricultural development in Myanmar.
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Reducing concession size, adjusting business plans and developing more inclusive business models

Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa, Case Study 3

Reports & Research
March, 2020
Malawi, Mozambique, Western Africa, Ghana, Sierra Leone
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
community land rights
farmers
food security
land access
land conflicts
land investments
land ownership
land tenure
land use
local communities
scale
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. These pilots sought to test how private companies could collaborate with civil society organisations and other stakeholders to implement responsible agribusiness investments that recognise and respect community land rights, and to develop innovative tools and approaches that could be adopted and implemented at greater scale.
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Case Study: Phata Cooperative

Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2019
Malawi
Land & Investments
agriculture
community land rights
farmers
farming systems
land dispute resolution
land investments
local communities
research
Recognizing the extensive literature available on outgrower cooperative farming, this case study seeks to add to this literature by providing in-depth learnings and guidance on good practices for structuring commercial, cooperative outgrower schemes in Malawi and potentially elsewhere.