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Land grabbing and Human Rights  Useful links |
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Land grabbing – useful links:
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, has issued a press release and a briefing note on the human rights challenges of large-scale land acquisitions or leases.
Read the press release
Read the briefing note
GRAIN’s Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab site provides an open, up-to-date and easy to search library of over 800 articles, interviews and reports on farm land grabs around the world published since the outbreak of the food crisis in 2008.
See also GRAIN’s Landgrab resource page
The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) are doing extensive research on international investment in agricultural land and have recently published Land grab or development opportunity? Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has recently published A Thirst For Distant Lands: foreign investment in agricultural land and water, a paper which analyses the linkages between domestic law, international investment contracts and international investment treaties governing large-scale land acquisitions.
FIAN (FoodFirst Information and Action Network) is conducting field case studies in Kenya, Mozambique and Mali in order to document concrete cases in which the right to food and related rights of local communities are threatened or violated due to large-scale land acquisition projects.
The International Land Coalition’s (ILC’s) Commercial Pressures on Land initiative includes an annotated bibliography of documents coming from a number of relevant civil society organizations, intergovernmental organizations and research institutes addressing the issue, a case studies database and a collection of relevant press articles coming from the international media, as well as information about the ILC’s collaborative research project on Commercial Pressures on Land.
The Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches was formed in response to the infamous deal between the South Korean company Daewoo and the recently overthrown Malagasy government.
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has released a policy brief on land grabbing and their website includes an extensive listing of media reports on overseas land investments.
Voir Le Hub Rural pour les actualités foncières ouest-africaines.
Oxfam Novib has published Unravelling the 'Land Grab' How to Protect the Livelihoods of the Poor, including a rights-based approach to the issue and presenting insights from Mali.
The New Agriculturist has published "Land-Grabbing" - opportunity or threat?, including different points of view on the issue. See also the article "Land-Grabbing" - realizing the benefits.
The Oakland Institute has published The Great Land Grab. Rush for World's Farmland Threatens Food Security for the Poor, including an evaluation of the role of international financial institutions and a critical perspective on "win-win" approaches.
The World Bank is engaged in a major study on Large-scale acquisition of land rights for agricultural or natural resource-based use involving research in over 30 countries.
The 2009 World Investment Report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) focuses on transnational corporations and foreign direct investment in agriculture, including investment in agricultural land.
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