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SWE-2012-143: Unintended implications of climate change policies - Large scale land acquisitions
General
Unintended implications of climate change policies - Large scale land acquisitions. Large scale land acquisitions (LLA) are rapidly becoming a controversial political issue, often allegedly driven by anticipations of climate change and/or as unintended ef
SWE-2012-137: Land Grabbing or Agricultural Investments: the Two Sides of the Coin
General
During the last decade land acquisitions by foreign investors in developing countries have accelerated tremendously. This project aims to enhance our understanding about the determinants and effects of this process. First, what determines where the acquisitions are taking place, their size when they do take place, and what characterizes the countries from which the investors come will be investigate using a macro-level approach. Second, how small-scale farmers in Zambia adapt to the introduction of larger farms will be investigated using a micro-level approach. Since Zambia during the last decade attracted large quantities of agricultural FDI of several different kinds it is very well suited as a case. Preliminary work indicates that large-scale land deals results are more likely in countries that are poor and closer to the sea or a navigable river.
Protection of land rights and sustainable use of natural ressources
General
Sicherung des Zugangs zu Land und nachhaltige Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen, Fortführung
Objectives
Sicherung des Zugangs zu Land und nachhaltige Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen, Fortführung
SWE-2012-137: Land Grabbing or Agricultural Investments: the Two Sides of the Coin
General
During the last decade land acquisitions by foreign investors in developing countries have accelerated tremendously. This project aims to enhance our understanding about the determinants and effects of this process. First, what determines where the acquis
SWE-2012-137: Land Grabbing or Agricultural Investments: the Two Sides of the Coin
General
During the last decade land acquisitions by foreign investors in developing countries have accelerated tremendously. This project aims to enhance our understanding about the determinants and effects of this process. First, what determines where the acquis
SWE-2012-020: WATER POLITICS IN THE NILE BASIN: EMERGING LAND ACQUISITIONS AND THE HYDROPOLITICAL LANDSCAPE
General
This research aims to investigate the water and land nexus in the Nile Basin seeking to understand how the current surge in land acquisitions and investments by foreign countries, sovereign wealth funds, private corporations and domestic investors will affect transboundary water interaction in the region. The countries which will be analysed in a comparative perspective are Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda and the key questions are: 1) Which are the key land acquisitions in the region? 2) Under what contractual conditions are they undertaken? 3) What type of water will be used for agricultural development? 4) How do the water interests between the riparians differ - in terms of preference for irrigation, hydropower or other? 5) How do the new land acquisitions and the water use affect the overall political stability and development in the region?
SWE-2012-020: WATER POLITICS IN THE NILE BASIN: EMERGING LAND ACQUISITIONS AND THE HYDROPOLITICAL LANDSCAPE
General
This research aims to investigate the water and land nexus in the Nile Basin seeking to understand how the current surge in land acquisitions and investments by foreign countries, sovereign wealth funds, private corporations and domestic investors will affect transboundary water interaction in the region. The countries which will be analysed in a comparative perspective are Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda and the key questions are: 1) Which are the key land acquisitions in the region? 2) Under what contractual conditions are they undertaken? 3) What type of water will be used for agricultural development? 4) How do the water interests between the riparians differ - in terms of preference for irrigation, hydropower or other? 5) How do the new land acquisitions and the water use affect the overall political stability and development in the region?
SWE-2012-020: WATER POLITICS IN THE NILE BASIN: EMERGING LAND ACQUISITIONS AND THE HYDROPOLITICAL LANDSCAPE
General
This research aims to investigate the water and land nexus in the Nile Basin seeking to understand how the current surge in land acquisitions and investments by foreign countries, sovereign wealth funds, private corporations and domestic investors will af
Strengthening Land Governance System for Smallholder Farmers in Malawi
General
The action will aim at having gender sensitive guidelines and procedures for establishing customary estates which are validated by key stakeholders, tested in Mzimba, Kasungu and Phalombe Districts and proposed for wider rollout by Government. This action will lead to a reduction in land conflicts as well as ensure land administration officials and local structures are more knowledgeable of and accountable on womens land rights.
GLA-PoV-Cameroon
General
Cameroon boasts a huge variety of flora and fauna, spread over about 20 million hectares of tropical rainforest. About four million people live in and around these forests, including a large percentage of indigenous people such as the Baka and Bagyeli. The forest is part of the second largest rainforest in the world, through which the great Congo River flows. It plays a key role in combating dangerous climate change. But the forests in Cameroon are under severe threat. Investments in logging, industrial agriculture and mining are increasing as well as deforestation. By 2020, Cameroon lost 100,000one hundred thousand hectares of rainforest. Land rights of indigenous and local communities are not formally recognized. Land grabbing and other human rights violations by large corporations in the timber or agriculture sectors are commonplace. Forest activists who stand up for these rights are subject to intimidation, threats or violence.
Objectives
Over the past five years we have put a halt to new plantations and logging permits. For example, the Ebo forest was protected from logging, saving 130 hectares of rainforest. In the coming years, Cameroon’s GLA program aims to increase and strengthen the influence and rights of indigenous peoples and local communities. We advocate for a methodology to represent them in corporate and political processes that deal with land and natural resources. The base is proper monitoring by local forest-, and human rights activists to document violations. On top of this, we will continue to campaign nationally and internationally for greater recognition and protection for indigenous and local people, and engage in resistance or use grievance procedures for redress in cases of (human) rights violations and deforestation.