ILC Publications

A case study of the Bechera agricultural development project, Ethiopia
This paper analyses the impacts on local communities and environments generated by an investment project known as the Bechera Agricultural...
ILC, EDC, Messele Fisseha
2011
Highly extractive fishing activities and privatisation of foreshore lands: impact on the everyday lives of municipal fisherfolk
This paper describes the struggles of artisanal fisherfolk in the Calabarzon region in Luzon, the Philippines, to reclaim the foreshore lands, the...
ILC, NGOs for Fisheries Reform, Dennis Calvan
2011
Rural Women: Rights, Challenges and Perspectives
Los procesos de emancipación de las mujeres requieren, además de la superación de las condiciones de exclusión social y discriminación que...
CINEP, ILC and FIDA
2011
Support for policy action against Kenya’s elite land grabs
Since the 1980s, land has become a currency of political patronage among Kenya’s elites. By means of processes that abuse public office and existing...
ILC, Erin O’Brien, in collaboration with the Kenya Land Alliance
2011
Trade law and responsible investment
There is broad international agreement that investment flows to the agricultural sector in developing countries need to be increased.In addition,...
ILC, Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi, World Trade Institute, NCCR Trade Regulation
2011
Responsible investment through international investment law: Addressing rights asymmetries through law interpretation and remedies
The vast majority of states have, on a number of different occasions, confirmed that foreign direct investment (FDI) forms an important part of...
ILC, Katja Gehne, World Trade Institute, NCCR Trade Regulation
2011
Human rights mechanisms to safeguard the food/land rights of people confronted with land use conversions
The topic of this brief is to explore whether and how human rights mechanisms can provide access to mechanisms to prevent and/or remedy human rights...
Simone Heri, NCCR Trade Regulation
2011
Company commitment instruments to safeguard the food/land rights of people confronted with land use shifts
In recent years private investors and governments have increasingly acquired, or leased on a long-term basis, large portions ofagricultural land in...
ILC, Gine Zwart, Oxfam Novib
2011
Policy Brief: Large acquisition of rights on forest lands for tropical timber concessions and commercial wood plantations
The recent attention given to the growing large-scale acquisition or leasing of public and private lands by commercial investors fails to pay...
Augusta Molnar, Keith Barney, Michael DeVito, Alain Karsenty, Dominic Elson, Margarita Benavides, Pedro Tipula, Carlos Soria, Phil Shearman, and Marina France
2011
Strategies to get gender onto the agenda of the “land grab” debate
The International Land Coalition (ILC)’s Commercial Pressures on Land initiative aims to support the efforts of ILC members and other stakeholders to...
Elizabeth Daley
2011

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