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LEGEND first land policy bulletin now out
The DFID is delighted to launch the first Land Policy Bulletin, which introduces a new land and responsible investment programme - Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND).
The Land Policy Bulletin is available for download here.
Extent of Farmland Grabbing in the EU
This study looks at the rise of large-scale land deals, ‘land grabbing’, in the EU. It finds significant evidence that farmland grabbing is underway in the EU today. It discusses a number of the drivers of farmland grabbing in the EU and examines the impacts of farmland grabbing for European food security and food sovereignty, rural employment and vitality, and environmental sustainability. It argues that farmland grabbing, especially when connected to other burning European land issues, calls for a reform of European land governance.
Recordings of presentations and powerpoints of the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2015 now available online
The Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty organized by the World Bank Development Economic Research Group (DECRG) is a key global event where representatives from governments, civil society, academia, the development community, and the private sector come together annually to discuss new developments and progress on land policy and implementation.
Click on the link below to see the videos of the presentations:
Act On It! Four key steps to stop land grabs
Over the past 15 years, tens of millions of hectares of land have been acquired by large investors in developing countries. The Land Matrix documented 1,037 transnational land deals covering 37,842,371 hectares during this period, while many more deals remain undocumented.1 This global land rush is causing widespread forced evictions and denial of access to key land and natural resources for millions of women, small- scale food producers, pastoralists, gatherers, forest dwellers, fisherfolk, and tribal and indigenous peoples.
From traditional land rights to long-term leases: fair compensation?
In the face of displacement due to large-scale development projects, can innovative legal solutions be used to protect smallholders' land rights?
Land tenure is a complex and sensitive issue throughout West Africa and nowhere more so than in Niger.
Download new book 'Wasted Lives: A Critique of China's Campaign to End Tibetan Pastoral Lifeways'
Announcing a new downloadable book which may interest you, and connect you with the pastoralists of the high plateau of Tibet.
The new book: Wasted Lives: A Critique of China’s Campaign to End Tibetan Pastoral Lifeways is an in-depth synthesis of all available sources on the nomads of Tibet, and the pressure they are under to sedentarise and abandon mobility.
Palm oil regulator asked to investigate illegal land grabs by Wilmar Group supplier in Borneo
Borneo human rights organization files complaint alleging multiple breaches of RSPO standards by palm oil supplier PT. Swadaya Mukti Prakarsa / First Resources.
Using the law for resource justice
Large-scale resource developments can threaten people's land and the quality of their environment. Now a new initiative is bringing grassroots organisations together with international lawyers to fight for resource justice.
Peru: Indigenous Communities Demand Land Rights
The oil company that exploited the their lands “has been an uninvited and messy guest for the past four decades,” declared indigenous communities.
Peruvian Indigenous communities from the northern region of Loreto filed a lawsuit Thursday to order the regional government to comply with the indigenous right to land.
SDSN publishes final report on "Indicators and a Monitoring Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals"
The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) has recently published its final report on Indicators and a Monitoring Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals: Launching a data revolution for the SDGs.