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Understanding agricultural investment chains: Lessons to improve governance

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Global
Land & Investments
agriculture
land governance
land investments
land rights
land use
local communities
tenure security
sustainable development
This report draws on 10 case studies of recent large-scale land deals and aims to improve understanding of the investment chains that underpin the deals, and to identify ‘pressure points’ for effective public action to ensure that investments respond to local and national development agendas and promote inclusive sustainable development. The findings of this research demonstrate the wide scope for strategies to be targeted at diverse actors, by a wide range of players, to ensure that investments uphold the Voluntary Guidelines (VGGT).
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Accountability in Africa’s land rush: what role for legal empowerment?

Reports & Research
April, 2013
Africa
land acquisitions
scale
legal empowerment
research
land
Includes setting the scene: accountability in large-scale land acquisitions; the role of the law in shaping pathways to accountability; citizen action – how effective are the bottom-up checks and balances?; under what conditions can citizens achieve justice and equitable outcomes in relation to land acquisitions?; what role for research?
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Land grabbing: is conservation part of the problem or the solution?

Reports & Research
September, 2013
Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
protected areas
land grabbing
land tenure
land
Presents the experience of international development, wildlife and human rights practitioners, shared at a symposium on land grabbing and conservation in March. Land can be ‘grabbed’ for ‘green’ purposes, triggering conflicts that undermine potential synergies. Expanded state protected areas, land for carbon offset markets and REDD, and for private conservation projects all potentially conflict with community rights. Such conflict is counterproductive because secure customary and communal land tenure helps enable sustainable natural resource management by local communities.
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Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD) in Mozambique

Reports & Research
June, 2013
Mozambique
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
forest conservation
natural resources management
sustainable land management
Mozambique is the 8th most vulnerable country to climate change and is one of the poorest countries in the world with a high dependency on foreign aid. The population is primarily rural and dependent on agriculture, with 60% living on the coastline. Droughts, flooding and cyclones affect particular regions of the country and these are projected to increase in frequency and severity.
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Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD) in Mozambique

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Mozambique
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
natural resources management
poverty
Mozambique is the 8th most vulnerable country to climate change and is one of the poorest countries in the world with a high dependency on foreign aid. The population is primarily rural and dependent on agriculture, with 60% living on the coastline. Droughts, flooding and cyclones affect particular regions of the country and these are projected to increase in frequency and severity.
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Investing in locally controlled forestry in Mozambique

Potential for promoting sustainable rural development in the province of Niassa

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Mozambique
forest land
forest management plans
local communities
This report summarises a strategic assessment of the potential of different options for investing in locally controlled forestry (ILCF), with a strong focus on local enterprise development. It looks in particular at the Province of Niassa in Mozambique. This assessment has its origins in mutual engagement by both SIDA and IIED in a dialogue process on ILCF. The process brought together more than 400 investors, local right-holders and forest experts from across eleven different locations, to advance understanding on ILCF.
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Development of an emphyteutic ('long-term') lease for fair compensation in the context of the Kandadji dam programme in Niger

Reports & Research
September, 2013
Niger
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
agricultural land management
agriculture
tenure security
The Kandadji dam, currently under construction in Niger, will displace 38,000 people. The High Commission for the Development of the Niger Valley (HCAVN), in accordance with national law, is committed to compensating people for the traditionally-owned land that they will lose.
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Élaboration d'un bail emphytéotique et d'un cahier des charges pour la juste compensation dans le cadre du barrage Kandadji au Niger

Reports & Research
September, 2013
Niger
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
agricultural land management
agriculture
tenure security
Le barrage de Kandadji, actuellement en construction au Niger, déplacera 38 000 personnes. Le Haut Commissariat à l’Aménagement de la Vallée du Niger (HCAVN) s’est engagé, conformément aux dispositions juridiques en la matière, à compenser les terres traditionnelles perdues par des terres irriguées, dans le cadre du Programme Kandadji.
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Accountability in Africa’s land rush: what role for legal empowerment?

Reports & Research
January, 2013
Africa
land rights
legal empowerment
Commercial interest in land has been increasing in recent years. While the trend is global, Africa has been centre stage to this new wave of land acquisitions. Agricultural investments can contribute to economic development and poverty reduction. But evidence suggests that many investments have failed to live up to expectations. In many cases, the deals have left villagers worse off than they would have been without the investment. Many deals are happening in developing countries where food security challenges are acute, and land tenure systems insecure.