Land governance in Africa faces various challenges,including weak legal frameworks and insufficient institutional capacity. Responsible land investmentsare vital for sustainable development and require the active participation of all stakeholders. The project component "Responsible Governance ofInvestments in Land," funded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, aims to promote responsible investments in Ethiopia, Laos, and Uganda.

Die Landnutzungsplanung hat in der Demokratischen Volksrepublik Laos eine lange Geschichte und wird
seit den 1990er Jahren landesweit in vielfältiger Form angewendet (Ling, 2017). Im Kern schafft die Landnutzungsplanung

ການວາງແຜນນຳໃຊ້ທີ່ດິນມີປະຫວັດຄວາມເປັນມາອັນຍາວນານໃນ ສປປ ລາວ ແລະ ໄດ້ຖືກນຳໃຊ້ຜ່ານຫຼາຍຮູບແບບໃນທົ່ວປະເທດຕັ້ງແຕ່ຊຸມປີ 1990 (Ling, 2017). ການວາງແຜນນໍາໃຊ້ທີ່ດິນສາມາດສ້າງເງື່ອນໄຂເບື້ອງຕົ້ນທີ່ຈໍາເປັນ ເພື່ອບັນລຸການນໍາໃຊ້ທີ່ດິນແບບມີຄວາມຍືນຍົງທາງດ້ານສິ່ງແວດລ້ອມ, ມີຄວາມເປັນທຳຕໍ່ສັງຄົມ ແລະ ມີເສດຖະກິດທີ່ເຂັ້ມແຂງ ແລະ ໜ້າເພິ່ງພໍໃຈ (Pickardt & Wehrmann, 2011).

A publicação analisa cinco proposições legislativas relacionadas ao terrorismo, que facilitam ou estimulam a criminalização do movimento indígena no Brasil, associando movimentos sociais à desordem, ao crime e ao terrorismo.

The livelihood of a large part of the world’s population depends directly on access to land and its secure longtermuse. Land access and use have long been organized through informal or traditional tenure rights, but this is changing. In many regions, land use is being transformed by the expansion of large-scale agricultural investments, a development that was triggered by the 2007–08 food, energy, and financial crises.

This manual is intended to provide an overview of the land tenure rights to both the investment affected communities and the investors to ensure that all the different rights on land are recognized and considered.

Diante de uma nova onda de garimpo nas áreas protegidas da bacia do Xingu, que se intensificou a partir de 2019, a Rede Xingu+ divulgou em 2020 um dossiê detalhando os principais focos de exploração garimpeira na região e que colocavam em risco, somada à epidemia de Covid 19, várias comunidades in- dígenas e ribeirinhas.

This handbook aims to help local communities affected by an investment to access a company-based grievance mechanism, official government conflict resolution mechanisms or village-level mediation when they feel that investors violate their rights or have a concern about the investment operation in their regions.

This guide aims to help investors identify the impacts and mitigation measures to minimize the impacts of the proposed investments in the agricultural and forestry sector in Laos. Further, the document provides guides on measures for environmental and social safeguards throughout the investment cycles.

This guides provides steps that investors have to take to establish an agricultural and forestry investment in Laos, and the key processes involved e.g. land acquisition and clearing, labour, import and export in the investment operation, and social and environmental rehabilitation in the closure phase.