Issues / Land & Investments
To invest responsibly in land, it is important to recognize and respect the land rights of local communities and avoid social and environmental harm.
Explore our ‘Responsible Land Investment’ pages to find out more on how to approach this, drawing from lessons learned from other projects.
Key Lessons
3 July 2023
We are looking for two consultants to conduct research on the land governance situation in French and Spanish speaking countries.
23 May 2023
Latest paper from the WOLTS team offers new evidence of a sustainable approach to securing land rights for women and communities
Durationaab: January 2014 - December 2019
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
While still one of the poorest countries in the world, Ethiopia has made many advances in reducing the level of poverty and increasing agricultural production. The pace of these advances however, is constrained by inefficiencies in the rural land sector and weak documentation and management of land
Durationaab: January 2013 - January 2014
Value: $990,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
USAID’s Economic Prosperity Initiative (EPI) supported a working group to develop the Land Registration Strategy and Action Plan. The draft strategy addresses the need to establish policies that deal effectively with all types of owners who received land as part of the original land privatization pr
Durationaab: January 2012 - January 2017
Value: $3,000,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
The Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP), which is supported by USAID and the World Bank, has four components: (1) Strengthening investment promotion infrastructure, facilitating secure access to land. This component promotes a secure investment climate that clarifies and strengthens the righ
Durationaab: October 2016 - March 2019
Value: £221,184.00
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The project supported women in 14 communities incorporating 23 villages across two Districs in Northern Mozambique to get secure access to land/trees and an improved income from those trees. The Project achieved this by: obtaining secure access rights to Baobab trees through the development of natur
Durationaab: November 2017 - April 2019
Value: £590,480.00
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Working in collaboration with TMP Systems, Bonsucro sought to test and disseminate a new approach to sustainability monitoring and reporting in the sugar sector which fully integrated land tenure issues while producing reliable, consistent and near-real-time data at a low and affordable cost. It did
Durationaab: September 2016 - December 2019
Value: £404,119.00
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The SPIRAL-Project aimed to test and further develop the concept of the Cocoa Production Cluster (CPC) as a responsible approach to investment in agricultural land in Sierra Leone. The CPC model aimed to retain land under customary ownership throughout, without reducing community land access fo
29 September 2023
Traditional Maasai leader Milya shares how confident he has become in defending women's land rights after training as a gender and land champion.
17 November 2022
In September 2022, Sierra Leone enacted unprecedented laws related to land, climate, and sustainable development. This new law transforms communities’ ability to protect their land rights and pursue sustainable development. This webinar will discuss the processes, the experiences, the challenges,…
