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  1. Library Resource

    Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

    Reports & Research
    April, 2011
    Global
    Land & Investments
    development
    food security
    agriculture
    land investments
    land rights
    local communities

    The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are a set of guidelines for States and companies to prevent, address and remedy human rights abuses committed in business operations.

  2. Library Resource

    Turning Land into Capital, Turning People into Labor: Primitive Accumulation and the Arrival of Large-Scale Economic Land Concessions in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2011
    Laos
    Land & Food Security
    Land & Investments
    agriculture
    agricultural land management
    sustainable land management
    sustainable land use
    farmers
    farming systems
    food security
    land grabbing
    extractive industries
    tenure security
    land ownership
    land investments
    land acquisitions
    poverty

    In recent years the Lao government has provided many foreign investors with large-scale economic land concessions to develop plantations. These concessions have resulted in significant alterations of landscapes and ecological processes, greatly reduced local access to resources through enclosing common areas, and ultimately leading to massive changes in the livelihoods of large numbers of mainly indigenous peoples living near these concessions.

  3. Library Resource

    What is the Committee on World Food Security and why does it matter?

    Brief March 2011

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Global
    Land & Investments
    land governance
    food security
    land policies
    agriculture
    land grabbing
    advocacy

    This brief produced for the Dialogue Initiative on Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and their Alternatives provides an overview of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), the most inclusive international and intergovernmental platform to facilitate and coordinate work to ensure food security and nutrition for all.

    You can get involved in the CFS through the Civil Society Mechanism. Check out http://cso4cfs.org/ to connect with your constituency and sub-regional focal points.

     

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