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'Land grabbing' and international investment law: toward a global reconfiguration of property?

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2016
South America, Africa, Europe, United States of America
Land & Investments
land grabbing
land investments
land law
land markets
land policies
property
property law
This yearbook chapter discusses the link between international investment law and commercial pressures on the world’s natural resources. It argues that changes in legal frameworks are redefining control over natural resources, and facilitating transitions toward more commercialised land relations. As pressures on resources increase, many national laws undermine the rights of people impacted by investments. If not properly thought through, international treaties to protect foreign investment could compound shortcomings of local and national governance.
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'Wild lands' conservation

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1951
South Africa, Bolivia, United States of America
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
forestry
natural resources management
agricultural and rural legislation
rangelands
research
An international journal of forestry and forest industries
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"Each country must define its own priorities"

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Africa
agriculture
land policies
land governance
rural development
agricultural and rural legislation
Many a dogma produced by agricultural policies over the past decades has proved disastrous for African agriculture. Ms Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Commissioner of Rural Economy and Agriculture of the African Union (AU), looks at lessons learnt and suggests ways to bring progress to Africa’s rural regions.
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"Er zitten altijd twee kanten aan landjepik"

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2017
Netherlands, Global
land access
land acquisitions
land grabbing
land law
land ownership
land policies
Soms bewust en soms onopgemerkt trekt iemand een stuk (gemeente)grond bij zijn tuin, onderhoudt dit jarenlang en behandelt het alsof het van hem is. Landjepik. Na twintig jaar verliest de originele eigenaar zijn eigendom en wordt de ‘dief ’ beloond voor zijn actie. Maar deze wijziging wordt nergens vastgelegd. De notaris kan dit dus niet zien als hij een woning overdraagt. Björn Hoops, promovendus en docent aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, brengt nu in kaart hoe groot dit probleem is.
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"Land discovery": training and tools for decision support to stakeholder watershed resource management

Reports & Research
December, 2000
Colombia, Central America, South America
natural resources management
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"Land grabs" in Africa: Pathways, trends and the role of legal contracts

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2010
Africa
Land & Investments
land deals
land acquisitions
food security
agriculture
land investments
Large land acquisitions can have a deep, lasting e? ect on livelihoods, food security and the future of agriculture, so there is a need for strategic thinking, vigorous public debate and government responsiveness to public concerns, especially in recipient countries
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"Ti Na Nyang" – "We Can"

Multimedia
December, 2016
Ghana, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Africa
land use
This participatory video titled “We Can” was filmed, produced, and directed by a group of 11 farmers and community members from Damolgo and Sekoti, Ghana. With this video they want to communicate the message: ‘we can use our combined knowledge to address the land management challenges we face.’ The film features farmers describing the importance of trees, stone bunds, contour planting and vetiver grass strips, mulching and manuring and the negative effects of bush burning.
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"We have inherited not only a piece of land, but also the responsibility to turn it into a home"

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2014
Kenya
land inheritance rights
farming systems
farmers
A focus edition on family farming would hardly be credible without giving the family farmers themselves an opportunity to speak. We talked to Moses Munyi, the owner of a six-hectare farm in Embu, Kenya, about his everyday life and about his views of the prospects for farming in the future.
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"We're Leaving Everything Behind"

The Impact of Guinea’s Souapiti Dam on Displaced Communities

Reports & Research
April, 2020
Guinea
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land investments
resettlement
customary land rights
customary tenure
Guinea’s 450 megawatt Souapiti dam, scheduled to begin operating in September 2020, is the most advanced of several new hydropower projects planned by the government of President Alpha Condé. Guinea’s government believes that hydropower can significantlyincrease access to electricity in a country where only a fraction of people have reliable access to power.
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(AlAWUC) (تقرير الدورة السابعة لهيئة الزراعة واستخدام الأراضي والمياه للشرق الأدنى ( الإجتماع خة

Reports & Research
May, 2012
Algeria, Egypt
natural resources management
land use
water management
Meeting symbol/code: ALAWUC/NE/12