Using a broad historical and conceptual scope, this paper acknowledges the difficulties inherent in drawing neat conclusions regarding a long history of unequal relations around agricultural...
Commercial Pressures on Land
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Focusing on international instruments that influence the food and land rights of people facing investments in agricultural land, this study aims to give insights into the array of existing legal...
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This paper contains a careful and focused analysis of the gendered impacts of commercial pressures on land (CPL), and especially their impacts on women. It is based on a review of the literature...
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This paper looks at the impact of commercial pressures upon common lands. Its main task is to identify the factors that make local possession of the commons vulnerable to involuntary loss in the...
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Data from nine countries on forest management and use within industrial timber concessions are studied in depth in this report. Despite the fact that (with some exceptions) there are few reliable...
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This report takes stock of the evidence on land acquisitions for agricultural investments, summarising findings from collaborative research that IIED has undertaken since 2008 together with FAO,...
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Following the release of the first set of studies at the beginning of 2011, the International Land Coalition (ILC) and partners are pleased to announce the release of 7 new reports, including...
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At ILC’s global assembly in Kathmandu in April 2009, members and partners declared that:
‘Land is becoming an increasingly globalised commodity, fuelled by rising demand for food and...
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One of the lingering effects of the food price crisis of 2007–08 on the world food system is the proliferating acquisition of farmland in developing countries by other countries seeking to...
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Large-scale acquisitions of farmland in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and Southeast Asia are making headlines in a flurry of media reports across the world. Lands that...
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