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Consent is Everybody’s Business: Why banks need to act on free, prior and informed consent

Consent is Everybody’s Business: Why banks need to act on free, prior and informed consent
27 August 2019
Imke Greven

Banks must stand with Indigenous and local communities in respecting their land rights

In 2018, every week more than three people were murdered, defending their land and environment from destructive industries like mining, logging and agribusiness. These killings represent the extreme end of a spectrum of violence and threats directed at land rights defenders.

Fair Compensation in Large-Scale Land Acquisitions (LSALs) Can Act as an Incentive for Those Investments That Truly Are a Development Opportunity

Fair Compensation in Large-Scale Land Acquisitions (LSALs) Can Act as an Incentive for Those Investments That Truly Are a Development Opportunity
Marcello Demaria

Despite the fact that land is intrinsically fixed in space, a new transnational market for land is born. Indeed, data from the Land Matrix suggests that in the last 16 years 77.5 million hectares of land – a surface slightly smaller than the entire Mozambique – have been transferred to international investors or are currently under negotiation. More than 140 countries are involved in this international market for land either as investor country, or as target country, or both.

Minutes from final session of the Conference on Fair Compensation (Cape Town, South Africa (Dec. 9, 2016))

Minutes from final session of the Conference on Fair Compensation (Cape Town, South Africa (Dec. 9, 2016))

The Rethinking Expropriation Law initiative hosted a Conference on Compensation for Expropriation in Cape Town, South Africa on December 7-9, 2016. The final session of the Conference took place on December 9 and aimed at discussing the development of a protocol on fair compensation.

For  the final session in Cape Town, scholars, judges, activists, and government officials from around the world sat together to provide input on what guidance and principles should be included in the protocol on fair compensation.

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Women’s Housing and Land Rights and Covid-19

Women’s Housing and Land Rights and Covid-19
26 May 2020
Online
United States

Join us for the Land Rights and COVID-19 webinar and discussion series, which is presented by Land Portal, Landesa, the Global Protection Cluster HLP AOR and GIZ, with organizing support from Environmental Peacebuilding Association, LANDac, New America and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID). 

Landesa - Rural Development Institute
Land Portal Foundation
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
New America
LANDac
Environmental Peacebuilding
Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility
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"When we import goods, we export jobs"

Conference Papers & Reports
August, 2017
Africa
Nigeria

This article was submitted for the UN Economic Commission for Africa “2017 Conference on Land Policy in Africa” Nov. 14-17 2017, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

This article sheds light on a series of events that triggered escalating tensions over land and resources in the coastal communities of Lagos, Nigeria. This article provides an in-depth analysis of Nigeria’s laws on expropriation and the processes of acquiring land and compensating landholders in the Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ) case. Specifically, the analysis addresses the following research questions:

The Status of National Legal Frameworks for Valuing Compensation for Expropriated Land

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2017
Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean
Asia
Global

The challenges associated with determining fair compensation for expropriated land have been extensively discussed and debated among scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and the public. However, to date, a comprehensive study of national-level compensation procedures established by law considering whether such procedures meet internationally recognized standards on compensation valuation has not been conducted.

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The act or process of making amends for something.