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Accountability in Africa’s land rush: what role for legal empowerment?

Reports & Research
January, 2013
Africa
land rights
legal empowerment
Commercial interest in land has been increasing in recent years. While the trend is global, Africa has been centre stage to this new wave of land acquisitions. Agricultural investments can contribute to economic development and poverty reduction. But evidence suggests that many investments have failed to live up to expectations. In many cases, the deals have left villagers worse off than they would have been without the investment. Many deals are happening in developing countries where food security challenges are acute, and land tenure systems insecure.
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Accountability in Africa’s land rush: what role for legal empowerment?

Reports & Research
April, 2013
Africa
land acquisitions
scale
legal empowerment
research
land
Includes setting the scene: accountability in large-scale land acquisitions; the role of the law in shaping pathways to accountability; citizen action – how effective are the bottom-up checks and balances?; under what conditions can citizens achieve justice and equitable outcomes in relation to land acquisitions?; what role for research?
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Development of an emphyteutic ('long-term') lease for fair compensation in the context of the Kandadji dam programme in Niger

Reports & Research
September, 2013
Niger
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
agricultural land management
agriculture
tenure security
The Kandadji dam, currently under construction in Niger, will displace 38,000 people. The High Commission for the Development of the Niger Valley (HCAVN), in accordance with national law, is committed to compensating people for the traditionally-owned land that they will lose.
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EITI and sustainable development: Lessons and new challenges for the Caspian region

January, 2013
Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia
development
extractive industries
sustainable development
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is sparking renewed interest and debate on issues such as transparency of government – company contracts, reporting on revenues from natural resources by company and by project, and reporting on revenue expenditure.
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Evolving customary institutions in the Drylands: an opportunity for devolved natural resource governance in Kenya?

January, 2014
Kenya
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land governance
land
Improved governance of natural resources is crucial for building climate resilient livelihoods and economies in Africa’s drylands. This paper looks at why the authority and capacity of customary natural resource management institutions has been weakened, and how this impacts on resource governance and climate resilience. The case study included looks at a new hybrid form of customary/formal institution that is emerging as a response to the stagnation of development and increasing conflict around resource access.
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FPIC and the Extractive Industries - A guide to applying the spirit of free, prior and informed consent in industrial projects

Manuals & Guidelines
January, 2013
Global
Land & Investments
environment
extractive industries
Indigenous Peoples
indigenous people's tenure
land investments
land rights
local communities
This guide offers a three-point framework for companies seeking to integrate FPIC principles into their policies and apply them in the operations. This includes

• complying with the requirements for FPIC under international and national law,

• implementing FPIC principles throughout the project life-cycle, and

• extending FPIC processes to all project-affected communities in line with good practice guidance. It also seeks to
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Investing in locally controlled forestry in Mozambique

Potential for promoting sustainable rural development in the province of Niassa

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Mozambique
forest land
forest management plans
local communities
This report summarises a strategic assessment of the potential of different options for investing in locally controlled forestry (ILCF), with a strong focus on local enterprise development. It looks in particular at the Province of Niassa in Mozambique. This assessment has its origins in mutual engagement by both SIDA and IIED in a dialogue process on ILCF. The process brought together more than 400 investors, local right-holders and forest experts from across eleven different locations, to advance understanding on ILCF.
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Land grabbing: is conservation part of the problem or the solution?

Reports & Research
September, 2013
Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
protected areas
land grabbing
land tenure
land
Presents the experience of international development, wildlife and human rights practitioners, shared at a symposium on land grabbing and conservation in March. Land can be ‘grabbed’ for ‘green’ purposes, triggering conflicts that undermine potential synergies. Expanded state protected areas, land for carbon offset markets and REDD, and for private conservation projects all potentially conflict with community rights. Such conflict is counterproductive because secure customary and communal land tenure helps enable sustainable natural resource management by local communities.
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Media perceptions and portrayals of pastoralists in Kenya, India and China

January, 2013
India, Kenya, China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
climate change
pastoralists
research
Through the analysis of newspaper articles and a survey of journalists, this publication identifies gaps and highlights differences in how the media portray pastoralism in Kenya, China and India. In discussing their methodology, the authors note that their reliance on national, English-language publications meant that they were not able to include data from vernacular language press in pastoral regions.Although able to make significant contributions to food security, livelihoods and economic prosperity, the benefits of pastoralism often go unnoticed.
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Prioritising support for locally controlled forest enterprises

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2014
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
agroforestry systems
forestry
This book comprises detailed assessments of the likely impacts of small-enterprise support across different forest subsectors in eight countries. The work advances recommendations that are sometimes generic and sometimes linked to support for particular subsectors of locally controlled forest enterprises, including improving natural resource governance and tenure, as well as supporting investment in organization-building for forest and farm producer organisations.