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Re-encountering resistance: Plantation activism and smallholder production in Thailand and Sarawak, Malaysia

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
Thailand
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
development agencies
food security
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
The emergence of social and environmental movements against plantation forestry in Southeast Asia positions rural development against local displacement and environmental degradation. Multi-scaled NGO networks have been active in promoting the notion that rural people in Southeast Asia uniformly oppose plantation development. There are potential pitfalls in this heightened attention to resistance however, as it has often lapsed into essentialist notions of timeless indigenous agricultural practices, and unproblematic local allegiances to common property and conservation.
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Land Reform in Angola: Establishing the Ground Rules

Reports & Research
June, 2005
Angola, Africa
Land & Food Security
food security
land grabbing
land tenure
land
land law
land reform
agriculture
Includes regional context, history of land tenure in Angola, the 1992 land law and its implementation, the draft Land Act of 2002 and its approval, review of post conflict potential fracture points – resettlement of IDPs and refugees, land grabbing, peri-urban land, food security and revival of agriculture, and prerequisites for a new policy.
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Land and Water Grabbing

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2018
Global
Land & Corruption
agriculture
climate change
corruption
food security
land grabbing
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
water management
water rights
women
IN’s latest resource is an introduction to the topic Land and Water Grabbing: A discussion of integrity implications and related risks, which discusses the integrity implications and risks of land and water grabbing. The essay examines the link between land and water grabbing, the people that are most impacted by this, and legal frameworks related to both land and water rights. Land and Water Grabbing describes the impacts of land and water grabbing in Kenya and Ethiopia.
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Allocation or appropriation? How spatial and temporal fragmentation of land allocation policies facilitates land grabbing in Northern Laos

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2015
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
title deeds
land titling
poverty
land policies
land law
The Lao Land and Forest Allocation Policy (LFAP) was intended to provide clearer property rights for swidden farmers living in mountainous areas. These lands are legally defined as “State” forests but are under various forms of customary tenure. The policy involves demarcating village territorial boundaries, ecological zoning of lands within village territories, and finally allocating a limited number of individual land parcels to specific households for farming.
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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.
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Village Focus International - Land Is Life

Multimedia
March, 2010
Cambodia, Laos
Land & Investments
agricultural land management
agriculture
farming systems
food security
land grabbing
land rights
tenure security
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
Village Focus helps families in rural villages in Laos and Cambodia. Dependent on the natural abundance of the wilderness around them for all things, they are often victims of profiteering in many forms. Images from Pajujeun, Pajudon, Ta-oy, Saneung and Phorbeuy villages in Laos, and Siem Reap province, Battambang and Mondulkiri provinces in Cambodia. Scenes of bomb craters, Typhoon Ketsana's destruction, a sacred forest reserve, water and sanitation projects, and food cultivation.
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Conflicts Over Land - A Role for Responsible and Inclusive Business

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Asia
Land & Investments
advocacy
agrarian reform
agriculture
cadastres
capacity development
climate change
common property
desertification
environment
extractive industries
farmers
fisheries
food security
forestry
gender equity in access to land
Indigenous Peoples
land area
land conflicts
land governance
land grabbing
land markets
land policies
land rights
landlessness
legal empowerment
local communities
natural resources management
pastoralists
property law
research
rural development
women
This briefing paper makes the case for proactive business engagement in respecting land rights and ensuring legal, fair and inclusive practices on land use, access to natural resources and equitable development opportunities. It outlines key challenges, provides an overview of existing instruments that can help companies address issues related to land, and points to practical entry points for improved business practices.
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How UK institutional investors finance the global land grab - Document

UK pension funds and asset managers found to be investing at least £37.3bn in companies involved in, or associated with, large-scale land acquisitions, according to a new report commissioned by Friends of the Earth.

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Global
Land & Investments
agriculture
extractive industries
cadastres
common property
land conflicts
farmers
food security
Indigenous Peoples
land governance
land grabbing
land policies
land rights
legal empowerment
natural resources management
property law
research
rural development
land area
land markets
Friends of the Earth’s report, ‘What’s your pension funding? How UK institutional investors finance the global land grab’, highlights the investments of UK institutional investors, such as British Airways Pension Fund, Legal & General and Standard Life, in companies accused of grabbing land, destroying the environment, and undermining sustainable livelihoods.
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Media release: Hungry for land

GRAIN and La Vía Campesina

Reports & Research
May, 2014
Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
agrarian reform
agriculture
capacity development
land conflicts
environment
extractive industries
farmers
food security
Indigenous Peoples
land governance
land grabbing
land policies
land rights
landlessness
local communities
natural resources management
pastoralists
property law
rural development
land area
land markets

Growing cassava on the banks of the Mekong: small farms tend to prioritise food production over commodity or export crop production.

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Media release

28 May 2014

GRAIN | La Vía Campesina
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This Land is Whose Land? Dispossession, Resistance and Reform in the United States

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2014
Northern America
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
advocacy
agrarian reform
agriculture
extractive industries
cadastres
capacity development
climate change
common property
land conflicts
desertification
environment
farmers
fisheries
food security
forestry
gender equity in access to land
Indigenous Peoples
land governance
land grabbing
land policies
land rights
landlessness
legal empowerment
local communities
natural resources management
pastoralists
property law
research
rural development
land area
land markets
women
Food First Backgrounder, Spring 2014, Vol. 20, No. 1

Introduction: Land, Race and the Agrarian Crisis

The disastrous effects of widespread land grabbing and land concentration sweeping the globe do not affect all farmers equally. The degree of vulnerability to these threats is highest for smallholders, women and people of color—the ones who grow, harvest, process and prepare most of the world’s food.