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'Land grabbing' and international investment law: toward a global reconfiguration of property?

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2016
South America, Africa, Europe, United States of America
Land & Investments
land grabbing
land investments
land law
land markets
land policies
property
property law
This yearbook chapter discusses the link between international investment law and commercial pressures on the world’s natural resources. It argues that changes in legal frameworks are redefining control over natural resources, and facilitating transitions toward more commercialised land relations. As pressures on resources increase, many national laws undermine the rights of people impacted by investments. If not properly thought through, international treaties to protect foreign investment could compound shortcomings of local and national governance.
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'We Want What the Ok Tedi Women Have!' Guidance from Papua New Guinea on Women's Engagement in Mining Deals

February, 2014
Guinea, Papua New Guinea
capacity development
compensation
sustainable development
youth
Despite global gender equality gains in
education, life expectancy, and labor force participation,
two areas of persistent inequality remain: asset gaps and
women's agency. In many developing countries, including
Papua New Guinea (PNG), land and natural resources are
citizens' key assets. This briefing note, centered on
field research in north fly district explores the process of
negotiation and the progress in implementation of the
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'Wild lands' conservation

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1951
South Africa, Bolivia, United States of America
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
forestry
natural resources management
agricultural and rural legislation
rangelands
research
An international journal of forestry and forest industries
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'Youth, Land, and The SDGs' | A Short Documentary Film by Jamal Browne

Videos
May, 2017
Kenya, United States of America
development
land tenure
land tenure systems
sustainable development
youth
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"Each country must define its own priorities"

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Africa
agriculture
land policies
land governance
rural development
agricultural and rural legislation
Many a dogma produced by agricultural policies over the past decades has proved disastrous for African agriculture. Ms Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Commissioner of Rural Economy and Agriculture of the African Union (AU), looks at lessons learnt and suggests ways to bring progress to Africa’s rural regions.
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"Land grabs" in Africa: Pathways, trends and the role of legal contracts

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2010
Africa
Land & Investments
land deals
land acquisitions
food security
agriculture
land investments
Large land acquisitions can have a deep, lasting e? ect on livelihoods, food security and the future of agriculture, so there is a need for strategic thinking, vigorous public debate and government responsiveness to public concerns, especially in recipient countries
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"Property Theory And Land Use Analysis: An Essay In The Political Economy Of Ideas"; IDS Discussion Paper No. 209 (also Published In The Journal Of Eastern African Research And Development, 1975 Vol. 1. 37-53

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1974
Kenya
development
land use
property
research
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"Since we have this land together"; A pastoral community in institutional management of communal resources.

The case of Olkiramatian Group Ranch, Kenya

Reports & Research
January, 2009
Kenya
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
rural development
land governance
natural resources management
In Kenya, the pastoral Maasai’s districts have been the vanguard in rangeland tenure transitions and experimentation as pastoralists’ territory gave way to communal group ranches and to individual land holdings under diverse land-use activities. The tenure transformations have been accompanied by institutional and socio-economic changes that have had bearings on local communities’ capacities for collective action, pastoral livelihoods, and environmental sustainability.
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"We have inherited not only a piece of land, but also the responsibility to turn it into a home"

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2014
Kenya
land inheritance rights
farming systems
farmers
A focus edition on family farming would hardly be credible without giving the family farmers themselves an opportunity to speak. We talked to Moses Munyi, the owner of a six-hectare farm in Embu, Kenya, about his everyday life and about his views of the prospects for farming in the future.
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"When we import goods, we export jobs"

An in-depth analysis of the laws and practices related to land expropriation for the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos, Nigeria

Conference Papers & Reports
September, 2017
Africa, Nigeria
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
VGGT
expropriation
compensation
compulsory acquisitions
land investments
land valuation
dispossession
community land rights
This article was submitted for the UN Economic Commission for Africa “2017 Conference on Land Policy in Africa” Nov. 14-17 2017, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

This article sheds light on a series of events that triggered escalating tensions over land and resources in the coastal communities of Lagos, Nigeria. This article provides an in-depth analysis of Nigeria’s laws on expropriation and the processes of acquiring land and compensating landholders in the Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ) case. Specifically, the analysis addresses the following research questions: