Land governance
In large parts of Latin America and Asia, fair and secure access to agricultural land and natural resources for the poor is a key challenge since many years. With the recent trend of a strongly growing interest of rich investors, both domestic and foreign, in agricultural land, water sources and production, this challenge is becoming even more complex and is rapidly expanding to and in Africa. The phenomenon commonly referred to as "land grabbing", sets the family based peasant, pastoralist and agro forestry production systems and livelihoods under additional pressure and stresses further the importance of an enforceable, pro-poor land governance.
Land Governance in SDC Projects
Project Mapping by CDE
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests
Draft, Committee on World Food Security (CFS), July 2011
11 Policy Briefs - Commercial Pressures on Land Initiative, March 2011
(initiative by the International Land Coalition,
supported by SDC)
Support for policy action against Kenya’s elite land grabs
Erin O’Brien 
PDF, 275 KB
Trade law and responsible investment
E. Bürgi Bonanomi, World Trade Institute PDF, 231 KB
Responsible investment through international investment law: Addressing rights asymmetries through law interpretation and remedies
K. Gehne, World Trade Institute PDF, 222 KB
Human rights mechanisms to safeguard the food/land rights of people confronted with land use conversions
S. Heri, NCCR Trade Regulation PDF, 247 KB
Company commitment instruments to safeguard the food/land rights of people confronted with land use shifts
G. Zwart, Oxfam Novib PDF, 310 KB
Large acquisition of rights on forest lands for tropical timber concessions and commercial wood plantations
A. Molnar, K. Barney, M. DeVito PDF, 267 KB
Strategies to get gender onto the agenda of the “land grab” debate
E. Daley, Mokoro Ltd PDF, 261 KB
Corporate “responsibility” and human rights perspectives on the “global land rush”
Ch. Huggins, Independent Consultant PDF, 236 KB
Accelerate legal recognition of commons as group-owned private property to limit involuntary land loss by the poor
L. Alden Wily, Independent Consultant PDF, 232 KB
Toward a new regulatory framework for agricultural investments in Madagascar
P. Burnod, CIRAD et al. PDF, 242 KB
The outlook on farmland acquisitions
L. Cotula, IIED PDF, 246 KB
SDC e-discussion on land governance
15th - 28th March, 2010 (Round 1) and April 26 – May 8, 2010 (Round 2)
Synthesis paper round 1 PDF, 27 KB
Synthesis paper round 2 PDF, 28 KB [fr] [es]
For more infomation on the e-discussions of the learning group contact the facilitators:
Rupa Mukerji rmukerji@intercooperation.org.in and Jane Carter jane.carter@intercooperation.ch
About this learning group "land governance"
Learning group objectives and action planPDF, 25 KB
Land Rights and the Rush for Land
Findings of the Global Commercial Pressures on Land Research Project, Ward Anseeuw, Liz Alden Wily, Lorenzo Cotula, and Michael Taylor, ILC, 2012 PDF, 1923 KB
Land Grabbing: the Dark Side of ‘sustainable’ Investments
Concerns of Bread for all on the Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone, November 2011 PDF, 868 KB
Land tenure and international investments in agriculture
Report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition, July 2011 PDF, 1406 KB
Land deals in Africa: What is in the contracts?
Lorenzo Cotula, IIED, March 2011 PDF, 257 KB
Rising global interest in farmland: can it yield sustainable and equitable benefits?
K. Deininger / D. Byerlee, The World Bank, 2011 PDF, 3605 KB
Access to Land and the Right to Food
Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, October 2010
Country factsheets on land governance
Factsheets prepared by LANDac, the IS Academy on Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development (Nederlands), presenting the relevant policy and institutional contexts with respect to land governance.
Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab
Website with news reports about Land Grab, managed by the NGO Grain
International Land Coalition (ILC)
Global alliance of civil society and intergovernmental organisations promoting secure and equitable access to and control over land for the poor
Land Grabbing Links
Collection of Studies and other Papers concerning „Landgrabbing and Conflict”, compiled by Theresa Rottmann and Caroline Kruckow, EED/ Desk for Supporting Peace Engagement as of 30 March, 2011
landportal
Gateway to land information facilitated by the International Land Coalition
Large-scale Investment in Agriculture and Land - Opportunity and Risk for Food Security
Documents of a Symposium organised by SDC and FOAG in the context of the series "Dialogue on Agriculture and Food Security"
