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  1. Library Resource
    Websites
    December, 2011
    Global

    The OECD e-learning Academy on Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) provides operating companies, investors and buyers with an opportunity to advance their knowledge on responsible business conduct and OECD risk-based due diligence.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2012
    Global

    The Policy on Environmental and Social Sustainability describes IFC’s commitments, roles, and responsibilities related to environmental and social sustainability. The Performance Standards are directed towards clients, providing guidance on how to identify risks and impacts, and are designed to help avoid, mitigate, and manage risks and impacts as a way of doing business in a sustainable way, including stakeholder engagement and disclosure obligations of the client in relation to project-level activities.

  3. Library Resource
    Guidance Note 5 Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement cover image
    Manuals & Guidelines
    January, 2012
    Global

    This Guidance Note provides guidance for investors and companies on the requirements contained in the IFC Performance Standards for issues linked to involuntary resettlement as part of project-related land acquisition. It offers guidance to minimise adverse impacts on displaced persons and host communities, and to improve the livelihoods of those affected by resettlement.

  4. Library Resource
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    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    Tanzania

    Tanzania has always been a country in the spotlight over cases of land grabbing for various uses. Over the recent past there has been a lot of information in both print and electronic media of land being taken for various investment purposes. Little is known to the public of the deals the government is entering with these foreign investment companies that are eyeing Tanzania as a destination in agricultural investment. Investment in agricultural land has been a key driving force in Tanzania as a rush now has intensified in which agricultural land is being taken for various uses.

  5. Library Resource
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    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    Tanzania

    Increasing investments in biofuel production follow a shift of energy demand,in developed nations from fossil fuel to bio energyto run machines. Consequently, there has is an accelerated influx of investors from the Europe, Asia and Americain quest for productive and fertile lands.


    Proponents of the biofuel investments say the investment will improve among other things, agricultural production, add value to local products and markets and improve social services such as roads infrastructure, health facilities, clean water supply and education.

  6. Library Resource
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    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    Tanzania

    This study sought to follow up the implementation of the Kilimo Kwanza initiative with the view to establish reliable facts on its significance to small-scale producers, mainly peasants and pastoralists. To achieve this, the study began by examining the perception of small-scale producers about Kilimo Kwanza and it assessed their participation in the implementation process. Moreover, the study scrutinized the proposed amendment of the Village Land Act and its implication to small-scale produces if carried out.

  7. Library Resource
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    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    Tanzania

    What has been the reaction of the rural producers and other land holders over these demands and actual land acquisitions? What does their reactions means in relation to ongoing land grabbing? While these questions are important this study was motivated by two major concerns.


  8. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2011
    Argentina, Bolivia, Peru

    Tierra,Propiedad y Poder(*)
    IPDRS(**)
     El derecho a la propiedad de la tierra es un tema antiguo en las agendas sociales que, lejos de simplificarse, se ha ido haciendo cada vez más complejo por una intricada trama de correlaciones con intereses económicos en las estructuras de propiedad, los modelos de desarrollo vigentes, las tensiones entre diferentes concepciones culturales de apropiación, manejo y valores simbólicos de la tierra y la enorme, creciente presión de hábitos de consumo y demanda por la expansión de las fronteras agrícolas.

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