<strong>Providing shelter is essential in saving lives and decreasing the vulnerability of those displaced by conflict or natural disasters, and as such, should be a strategic priority in any humanitarian intervention. However humanitarian organisations increasingly struggle to provide…
In 2013, the International Land Coalition (ILC) marked a historic expansion in its membership, reaching 152 member organisations in 56 countries, representing diverse interests and entities from national civil society organisations (CSOs) and grassroots movements to international non-…
Sustainable agricultural intensification holds promise to play a
role in the broader effort to ensure food security while protecting our natural
resource base. But what would such a sustainable intensification look like in
practice? This chapter…
During the Donor Roundtable Meeting in Washington on the margins of the annual land conference at the World Bank on 12 April 2013 participants agreed to establish a new <a href="https://www.…
<h2>CIHEAM - Watch Letter N.28 released: "Land Issues in the Mediterranean Countries"</h2>
Since 2007 CIHEAM is publishing a quarterly Watch Letter devoted to Major Issues in Mediterranean Agriculture, Food and Rural Areas. Each Issue contains a series of articles on…
"For millions of people living in the world’s poorest countries, access to land is a matter not of wealth, but of survival, identity and belonging. Most of the 1.4 billion people earning less than US$1.25 a day live in rural areas and depend largely on agriculture for their livelihoods,…
A <a href="https://www.landcoalition.org/publications/land-rights-post-2015-agenda">new policy brief</a> released by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), Oxfam, and the…
Sur fond de débat international sur l’« accaparement des terres », l’ONG Agronomes et vétérinaires sans frontières (AVSF) fait le point sur les groupes français qui achètent ou gèrent de grandes surfaces agricoles dans des pays étrangers. Un document qui permet de comprendre les diverses…
At the turn of the 21st century, farmland was still considered an investment backwater by most of the financial sector. Although some insurance companies have had farmland holdings for years, most financial investors found farmland, and agricultural investment in general, unappealing compared to…
Friends of the Earth’s report, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/whats-your-pension-fundin…
The AgriTech Toolbox enables researchers and policymakers to examine how alternative agricultural practices and technologies can impact farm yields, food prices, natural resource use, hunger, malnutrition, land use and global trade in 2050, when climate change impacts may be severe. As a result…
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…