In pursuit of generating better data and knowledge on good land governance, responsible land investment and secure land rights, LEGEND’s Core Land Support Team (CLST) has produced a range of outputs for different audiences. These cover ten different themes (which you can browse from the main menu) and include reports, briefing papers, evidence updates, and regular bulletins:
Reports and briefing papers
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Report: Investing Responsibly in Agricultural Land Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa
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Briefing: Investing Responsibly in Agricultural Land Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa
- Thematic case Studies from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa:
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- #1 The need for proper attention to land tenure issues in investment planning and due diligence
- #2 Approaches to land rights documentation and mapping to protect local people’s land rights in agricultural investment contexts
- #3 Reducing concession size, adjusting business plans and developing more inclusive business models
- Responsible land investment in sub-Saharan Africa: six insights from the private sector
- Accompanying slide deck: Six private sector insights on responsible land investment in sub-Saharan Africa
- Analytical Paper: Tackling corruption in land governance
- Briefing: Tackling land corruption in developing countries
- Analytical Paper: Addressing legacy land issues in agribusiness investments
- Briefing: Legacy land issues Addressing historical disputes in agribusiness investments
- Analytical Paper: Legal empowerment in agribusiness investments Harnessing political economy analysis
- Briefing: Legal empowerment in agribusiness investments Harnessing Political Economy Analysis
- Report: Investing Responsibly in Agricultural Land Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa
- Briefing: Investing Responsibly in Agricultural Land Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa
- Policy Brief: Land rights and investments - why the IFC performance standards are not enough A comparison with the VGGT
- Executive Summary: Are development finance institutions equipped to address land rights issues? A stocktake of practice in agriculture
- Report: Are development finance institutions equipped to address land rights issues? A stocktake of practice in agriculture
- Report: Securing land rights at scale Lessons and guiding principles from DFID land tenure regularisation and land sector support programmes
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Options for Securing Tenure and Documenting Land Rights in Mozambique: A Land Policy & Practice Paper
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- Full paper: (also available in Portuguese)
- Briefing Note: (also available in Portuguese)
Evidence updates
- Evidence update: Land, population and agricultural investment in Africa
- Evidence update: Gender, land and agricultural development in Africa
State of the debate
- State of the debate: Strengthening Land Governance Lessons from implementing the Voluntary Guidelines
- State of the debate: Land governance and inclusive business in agriculture Advancing the debate
Portfolio overviews
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Portfolio overview: 2016 overview of DFID programmes working on land
- Portfolio overview: 2015 overview of DFID programmes working on land
Slide resources
- Slide deck: Responsible Land Investment Lessons from five years of LEGEND CLST
- Slide deck: Six private sector insights on responsible land investment in sub-Saharan Africa
News and bulletins
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 1 Why land governance?
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 2 Stepping up work on responsible land investments
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 3 A global push for gender equality in land rights
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 4 Focus on the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2016
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 5 Focus on Habitat III and the New Urban Agenda
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 6 Harnessing the law for fairer agricultural investments
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 7 Can technology revolutionise efforts to secure land rights?
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 8 Agribusiness and land rights: turning good intentions into tangible change
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 9 The VGGT five years on – are they changing lives?
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 10 Experiences and emerging lessons from four Challenge Fund projects
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 11 DFID’s work on land: what future priorities?
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 12 Inclusive business and agriculture: what are we learning from the field?
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 13 Responsible investments: are new initiatives hinting towards a shift in practice?
- LEGEND land policy bulletin 14 Securing land rights at scale: eight lessons and guiding principles on land tenure regularisation
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LEGEND land policy bulletin 15 Why urban land governance matters
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LEGEND land policy bulletin 16 Why land governance and responsible land investment remains a key priority