In pursuit of generating better data and knowledge on good land governance, responsible land investment and secure land rights, LEGEND’s Core Land Support Team (CLST) has produced a range of outputs for different audiences. These cover ten different themes (which you can browse from the below list) and include reports, briefing papers, evidence updates, and regular bulletins
Legend Product
Reports and briefing papers
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Report: Investing Responsibly in Agricultural Land Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa
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Briefing: Investing Responsibly in Agricultural Land Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa
- Thematic case Studies from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa:
- #1 The need for proper attention to land tenure issues in investment planning and due diligence
- #2 Approaches to land rights documentation and mapping to protect local people’s land rights in agricultural investment contexts
- #3 Reducing concession size, adjusting business plans and developing more inclusive business models
- Responsible land investment in sub-Saharan Africa: six insights from the private sector
- Accompanying slide deck: Six private sector insights on responsible land investment in sub-Saharan Africa
- Analytical Paper: Tackling corruption in land governance
- Briefing: Tackling land corruption in developing countries
- Analytical Paper: Addressing legacy land issues in agribusiness investments
- Briefing: Legacy land issues Addressing historical disputes in agribusiness investments
- Analytical Paper: Legal empowerment in agribusiness investments Harnessing political economy analysis
- Briefing: Legal empowerment in agribusiness investments Harnessing Political Economy Analysis
- Report: Investing Responsibly in Agricultural Land Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa
- Briefing: Investing Responsibly in Agricultural Land Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa
- Policy Brief: Land rights and investments - why the IFC performance standards are not enough A comparison with the VGGT
- Executive Summary: Are development finance institutions equipped to address land rights issues? A stocktake of practice in agriculture
- Report: Are development finance institutions equipped to address land rights issues? A stocktake of practice in agriculture
- Report: Securing land rights at scale Lessons and guiding principles from DFID land tenure regularisation and land sector support programmes
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Options for Securing Tenure and Documenting Land Rights in Mozambique: A Land Policy & Practice Paper
- Full paper: (also available in Portuguese)
- Briefing Note: (also available in Portuguese)
Evidence updates
- Evidence update: Land, population and agricultural investment in Africa
- Evidence update: Gender, land and agricultural development in Africa
State of the debate
- State of the debate: Strengthening Land Governance Lessons from implementing the Voluntary Guidelines
- State of the debate: Land governance and inclusive business in agriculture Advancing the debate
Portfolio overviews
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Portfolio overview: 2016 overview of DFID programmes working on land
- Portfolio overview: 2015 overview of DFID programmes working on land
Slide resources
News and bulletins
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 1 Why land governance?
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 2 Stepping up work on responsible land investments
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 3 A global push for gender equality in land rights
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 4 Focus on the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2016
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 5 Focus on Habitat III and the New Urban Agenda
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 6 Harnessing the law for fairer agricultural investments
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 7 Can technology revolutionise efforts to secure land rights?
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 8 Agribusiness and land rights: turning good intentions into tangible change
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 9 The VGGT five years on – are they changing lives?
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 10 Experiences and emerging lessons from four Challenge Fund projects
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 11 DFID’s work on land: what future priorities?
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 12 Inclusive business and agriculture: what are we learning from the field?
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 13 Responsible investments: are new initiatives hinting towards a shift in practice?
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 14 Securing land rights at scale: eight lessons and guiding principles on land tenure regularisation
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LEGEND land policy bulletin 15 Why urban land governance matters
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LEGEND land policy bulletin 16 Why land governance and responsible land investment remains a key priority
Events
UK Land Policy Forum