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Promoting Responsible Governance of Investments in Land

Multimedia
May, 2023
Ethiopia, Uganda, Laos
land governance
expropriation
land policies
natural resources
displacement
A large share of the world's rural population depends on using land to feed themselves. Commercial agriculture and forestry investments are placing growing pressure on land as a resource. Especially when state capacities to steer and monitor land-based investments are low, this can lead to increasing pressure on natural resources, land-use conflicts and in the worst cases to forced expropriation and displacement. These factors can have a negative impact on livelihood and food security in rural areas, particularly when land rights are insecure.
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Accelerate Aspirations: Moving Together to Achieve Systems Change

Reports & Research
February, 2023
Global
open data
To solve some of our greatest global challenges we need to accelerate how we use data for good. But to truly make data-driven tools that serve society, we must re-imagine data for social impact more broadly, more inclusively, and in a more
interdisciplinary way.This is easy to talk about, but harder to act on as we work to build a new field of data for social impact.
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Roads to Ruin: the emerging impacts of infrastructure development in Congo Basin forests

Reports & Research
October, 2021
Congo
Forest Landscape Restoration
development
environment
land degradation
deforestation
A report by RFUK reveals the growing extent, and impact, of transport and energy infrastructure development in the Congo Basin – which is on its way to becoming a major driver of deforestation in the world’s second largest rainforest. The eight case studies featured in this report show that, while certain projects may bring some economic benefits, environmental and social impacts have been overwhelmingly higher than necessary due to bad planning, corruption, failure to follow better practice, and simple negligence.
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Promoting Responsible Governance of Investments in Land (RGIL) in Laos

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2023
Laos
Land & Investments
land governance
expropriation
land investments
land tenure
Laos plans to graduate from least developed country status by 2024. To spur economic growth,
the Lao government builds on a resource-based export economy, major mining projects, the
constructions of dams, and the expansion of plantation agriculture. A key focus is the promotion
of foreign direct investment in agriculture and forestry, to promote technology transfer for
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No Time To Waste: Climate Action Through Secure Land Rights and Sustainable Land Use

Reports & Research
December, 2021
Asia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
sustainable land use
land rights
land tenure
community land rights
Land tenure is a particularly important issue in Asia, a region most prone to natural disasters and the impacts of climate change and home to the world’s poorest who depend on land for their lives and livelihoods. However, public understanding of the links between climate change, disasters, and land tenure is still very limited, even among civil society organizations.
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Understanding Land Deals in Limbo in Africa: A Focus on Actors, Processes, and Relationships

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2021
Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Senegal
Land & Investments
land governance
land acquisitions
land investments
land deals
displacement
land dispute

This publication serves as an introduction to a collection of articles published in the African Studies Review. It discusses the implications of as well as the question through what actors, processes, and relationships land deals become stalled or partially implemented. The reviewed articles draw on long-term, in-depth ethnographic research of land deals in Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia.
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Forest Dependency in Rural Azerbaijan

Based on the Case Study in Zagatala district

Reports & Research
October, 2014
Azerbaijan
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
forestry
forest conservation
forest land
forest management plans
In the Republic of Azerbaijan forested areas cover 1,021 hectares of the land, which is 11.8% of the country’s territory. In the 18th-19th centuries however, this figure stood at 30- 35%. The per capita forest area is 0.12 hectares, which is 4 times less (0.48 hectares) than the average international indicator.
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Doing Business in Azerbaijan

Reports & Research
May, 2022
Azerbaijan
Land & Investments
land law
land economics
land investments
foreign investment
land-based financing
land tax
land ownership
extractive industries
According to the Constitution adopted on 12 November 1995, Azerbaijan is a democratic, secular, unitary republic based on the rule of law. The country is governed by the president, who is directly elected for a seven-year term by popular vote. Azerbaijan’s vast oil reserves attract foreign investment into the country’s economy. Several major oil contracts have been signed since 1994.
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Effect of land tenure on forest cover and the paradox of private titling in Panama

Peer-reviewed publication
October, 2021
Panama
Forest Tenure
Land Degradation & Tenure
forestry
land tenure
Meeting sustainable development goals requires policies that account for interrelatedness in social and environmental issues such as land tenure and deforestation.
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Livestock, climate and the politics of resources

A primer

Reports & Research
October, 2022
Global
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
climate change
This primer focuses on one type of livestock-keeping: pastoralism. Pastoralism is a way of raising livestock that makes use of variable landscapes by moving animals and managing their grazing.1 It provides livelihoods for many millions of people and makes use of rangelands on every continent but Antarctica, across more than half the world’s land surface.