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  1. Library Resource
    Open Edition Journals, Articles 12.1
    Journal Articles & Books
    July, 2020
    Sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania

    After more than ten years of hectic debates on international ‘land grabs’, academic interest in collapsed land deals or projects with unexpected results is growing. According to the Land Matrix, Tanzania is one of the target countries for such deals, with a number ‘abandoned’ or delayed and projects whose status is unknown. Labelling land deals as ‘failed’ poses conceptual and methodological challenges as long as the criteria for ‘failure’ are undefined.

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2014
    Africa

    Large-scale land acquisitions have increased in scale and pace due to changes in commodity markets, agricultural investment strategies, land prices, and a range of other policy and market forces. The areas most affected are the global “commons” – lands that local people traditionally use collectively — including much of the world’s forests, wetlands, and rangelands. In some cases land acquisition occurs with environmental objectives in sight – including the setting aside of land as protected areas for biodiversity conservation.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2019
    Sierra Leone

    The rise of land deals poses unpredictable risks to war-torn societies, exposing them to the violent folds of the global economy. In Sierra Leone, commercial land leases have perpetuated the chieftaincy monopoly, further curtailed social mobility, and sparked particular resentment among youths and ex-combatants. Drawing on the concept of the “war machine,” I analyse how Kamajor militia fighters shape contestation against land deals and explore the attendant risks for remobilisation and conflict transformation.

  4. Library Resource

    Can technology revolutionise efforts to secure land rights?

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2017
    Global

    This LEGEND bulletin considers the impact that new technology can have on documenting land rights and democratising access to land data around the world.

  5. Library Resource
    Manuals & Guidelines
    October, 2016
    Global

    This document provides guidances on how businesses can respect legitimate tenure rights and human rights in their land-based investments. It


    • translates principles of responsible land governance and tenure (see the VGGT) into practical mechanisms, processes and actions,


    • gives examples of good practice – what has worked, where, why and how, and


  6. Library Resource
    Strategic Litigation Impacts: Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights Cover image
    Reports & Research
    April, 2017
    Global

    The world is increasingly encroaching on indigenous peoples’ traditional lands. Around the globe, indigenous communities are forced to cede ground to state development, corporate land grabs, rising sea levels, environmental degradation, and population growth. The right to land provides the basis for access to food, housing, and development. But for indigenous peoples, traditional lands are more than this; they represent essential ties to their ancestors, their culture, and their languages. Losing their land means losing their way of life.


  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2020
    Myanmar

    This Case Study looks at the implementation of the Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law (VFV Law) in seven villages in Sagaing Region, to assess the practices on the ground and how the law impacts the land tenure security of smallholder farmers.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    April, 2021
    Timor-Leste

    This article discusses the inherent limitations of law in transitional justice processes regarding land grievances. Through analysis of the case of Timor-Leste (East Timor), a country marked by post-colonialism, post-authoritarianism, and post-conflict. The article shows how complex transitional justice regarding land grievances can be, and argues that a legalist perspective gives a limited view of these grievances, both for studying and finding solutions to them. The article employs the concept of ‘wicked problems’ to overcome the limitations of law.

  9. Library Resource

    The current land tenure situation and future land allocation needs of smallholder farmers in Cambodia

    Reports & Research
    August, 2016
    Cambodia

    In Cambodia, the majority of the population is still composed of smallholder family farmers. 54% of the total labour force is employed in agriculture. They have access to 3.6 million ha of land, representing 19% of the country’s total land. The rest is divided between large scale economic land concessions (12%), public forests and protected areas, unclassified areas and some infrastructure.

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2016
    Global

    The Organising Committee of the Dutch Land Governance Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue has commissioned an investigation into the need and possibility to develop a protocol on fair compensation in cases of legitimate land tenure changes, with a focus on expropriation. This is in line with the Ministry’s role in the Land Governance Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue. This dialogue involves government, civil society, business, finance and academia.

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