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Land deals and investment treaties. Visualising the interface

Land deals and investment treaties. Visualising the interface

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Date of publication
December 2015
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ISBN / Resource ID
mokoro:6572

International investment treaties are an important part of the legal frameworks governing foreign investment. This report measures the extent to which they apply to agribusiness investments initiated as part of the recent wave of large-scale land deals in low and middle-income countries. It finds that 70% of ‘land grab’ deals worldwide are protected by at least one investment treaty. Public action to terminate, renegotiate or regulate land deals could expose states to the risk of treaty-based arbitration claims.

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