Land acquisitions and rights

Using legal tools and participatory approaches, we work to strengthen land rights for local people to improve their livelihoods and get a better deal from incoming investors

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Men and women stand in a ploughed field looking down at the turf.

Overcoming obstacles to women's land tenure security in Guinea

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A series of blogs looking at ways to strengthen women’s access to and control over land in Africa

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Bringing coherence and a rights-based approach to Indonesia’s climate and investment governance

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Assessing the implementation and impacts of gender-sensitive by-laws in Kisarawe

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Women and land in Senegal: promoting inclusive and participatory governance

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A guide on best practices in developing and adopting gender-sensitive village bylaws in Tanzania

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Using dialogue to address land-related conflicts

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Strengthening Indigenous land rights in Cameroon

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Supporting small-scale farmer agency in commercial agriculture

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(Re)claiming power in value chains: A guide for small-scale farmers and their advocates

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ALIGN - Technical support on land-based investments for governments in low- and middle-income countries

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ALIGN - Technical support on land-based investments for civil society in low- and middle-income countries

A group of seated African women gather for a discussion (Photo: Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT))

Making their voices count

Long read, 10 September 2019

Four women farmers bend over to work their land

Climate justice and the IPCC special report on land

Blog, 13 August 2019

A road through deforested land

Investor-state dispute settlement: IIED and partners contribute to reform working group

News, 22 July 2019

A woman harvests palm fruit in Tanzania

Local solutions to strengthen women’s voices in land governance

Article, 13 May 2019

The new landcam website

New 'Landcam' website launched

News, 01 May 2019

An aerial view of the Southwest Mau Forest and neighbouring tea estates in Kenya (Photo: Patrick Sheperd/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Development finance and land rights: how we can do better

Blog, 22 March 2019

Rainforest logged to make way for palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Deforestation for agribusiness is destroying habitats and the ecosystems upon which local communities depend (Photo: David Gilbert/RAN, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Law and political economy of the global resource squeeze: can action rise to the challenge?

Article, 04 March 2019

A Tanzanian woman farmer displays her crop. With commercial pressures on land increasing, women farmers in Africa need support to understand, and speak up for, fair land governance (Photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Strengthening women’s voices in land decisions: what works?

Blog, 31 January 2019

A community-owned Mexican sawmill in Oaxaca (Photo: Duncan Macqueen)

Incendiary observations from the 4th FLARE conference

Blog, 22 October 2018

Saba bananas, a cooking banana from the Philippines. Grassroots organisation FARMCOOP works with Philippine farmers’ cooperatives to negotiate fair contracts and build capacity (Photo: Obsidian Soul, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)

Supporting small-scale farmers in negotiations with agribusiness

Blog, 25 May 2018