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Key Lesson 1: Proper attention to Land Tenure in Investment Planning & Due Diligence

Timely identification of land rights issues is better than having to address land rights problems later, after they escalate leading to conflicts that damage community relations, increase costs and undermine sustainability of the investment. Companies need to pay proper attention to land tenure issues at the investment planning stage, implying a need for improved risk assessment and due diligence.

Highlighted Tools & Resources

Landscope risk

Landscope risk assessment tool

 

The Landscope risk assessment tool, developed by LEGEND partner TMP Systems, is a system that applies a new approach to analyzing geospatial data about social, environmental and political issues that is designed to help companies and investors to prepare a proper assessment of tenure risk.  Read more about it here (link is external).

From Commitment

From Commitment to Practice (C2P)

Landesa’s C2P project narrative report explains the context and outcomes of Landesa’s work with Illovo in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. Read more about this project and its outcomes here.

Solidaridad

Solidaridad - The LEGEND Project: Accomplishments and Lessons

Solidaridad’s LEGEND project booklet details the work done with Natural Habitats Sierra Leone, its accomplishments and lessons in reducing the scale of a huge oil palm investment and enabling it to comply with VGGT principles and gain social licence. Find out more here.

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Negotiating and implementing large scale land deals in Sierra Leone: Improving transparency and consent. A LANDac Policy Brief

This LANDac Policy Brief explains how a series of large scale land concessions were created and discusses their effects and implications. Read the brief here.

 

Analytical framework

Analytical framework for due diligence of Land-Based Investments in African Agriculture

Analytical framework for due diligence of Land-Based Investments in African Agriculture, developed in 2015 by international agencies concerned to ensure fair land governance and protection of legitimate land rights in investments processes. Read more about it here. 

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Are development finance institutions equipped to address land rights issues? A stocktake of practice in agriculture

Development finance institutions (DFIs) are increasingly prominent in international cooperation, and play a key role in aligning private sector conduct with international norms and standards through the projects they finance and their ‘demonstration effect’. Read the report to learn how DFI’s due diligence and operating procedures could be strengthened to protect land rights.
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Investors and companies need to take particular care to be understand land legacy issues which concern longstanding grievances and conflicts resulting from land acquisitions that took place without proper consultation or compensation and restrictions on community access to land.

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