ປຶ້ມຄູ່ມືສະບັບນີ້ ມີຈຸດປະສົງເພື່ອຊ່ວຍໃຫ້ຊຸມຊົນທ້ອງຖິ່ນທີ່ໄດ້ຮັບຜົນກະທົບຈາກການລົງທຶນເຂົ້າເຖິງກົນໄກການຮ້ອງທຸກຂອງບໍລິສັດ, ກົນໄກການແກ້ໄຂຂໍ້ຂັດແຍ່ງຂອງລັດຖະບານຢ່າງເປັນທາງການ ຫຼືການໄກ່ເກ່ຍຂັ້ນບ້ານ ເມື່ອເຂົາເຈົ້າຮູ້ສຶກວ່ານັກລົງທຶນລະເມີດສິດຂອງເຂົາເຈົ້າ ຫຼືມີຄວາມກັງວົນກ່ຽວກັບການລົງທຶນໃນພາກພື້ນຂອງເຂົາເຈົ້າ.

The Global Programme 'Responsible Land Policy' (GPRLP) is part of the Special Initiative 'One World, No Hunger' of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), which aims to reduce extreme poverty and hunger.

This publication aims to provide practical guidance for government officials in improving their skills related to agriculture extension service provisions to large-scale agricultural investments. It is meant to be used along with the full version of the manual as well as with the RGIL “Introductory Manual on responsible land-based investments for Governments”.

This publication aims to provide practical guidance for investors in improving their agribusiness management skills. It is meant to be used along with the full version as well as with the RGIL “Introductory Manual on Responsible Land-based Investments” for Investors.

This framework serves as a guideline for evaluating the fulfillment of the rights to food and livelihood within the business and human rights framework. The guidelines in this framework can be adopted individually by each party and jointly or collaboratively between parties.

This document shares emerging ideas, principles, and good practices to socialize the concept of Community Monitoring among companies and investors in land-based sectors, as well as outline steps they can take to meaningfully engage with Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples to monitor and respond to the potential environmental and human rights impacts of their operations, supply chains, or investments.

The Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the Responsible Governance of Investment in Land (RGIL) project conducted national Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue (MSD) under the theme “Responsible Agricultural Investment: A Pathway to Inclusive Sustainable Development”. It was held from 21 to 22 March 2023 in Addis Ababa, at Radisson Blu Hotel. The dialogue brought together ninety-one representatives of government officials, technical experts, academia, agricultural investors, the local community, civil society organizations (CSO), consultants, and the media.

Most tea in Laos is produced by smallholder farmers, who benefit from highly suitable growing conditions and strong demand for sought-after varieties from the vast Chinese market. However, the sector faces many challenges to achieve its full potential. A key barrier in the northern provinces has been the tendency towards monopsony trade concessions, in which the production of a whole district can be under exclusive control of one buyer.

This is the PDF version of an online data story about the impacts of the VGGT, published by Land Portal on 4 October 2022.

Ceci est la version PDF d'une histoire de données en ligne sur les impacts du VGGT, publiée par Land Portal le 4 octobre 2022.

Land is the bridge between companies’ environmental and social sustainability agendas, and it is foundational to both. To implement their commitments on climate change, net zero emissions, human rights, women’s empowerment, and farmer livelihoods, companies must focus on land in agricultural value chains: who controls it, who can access it, who has rights to it, and who enjoys the benefits derived from it (‘land inequality’).