International and regional guidelines and frameworks on land governance provide a useful roadmap ... more International and regional guidelines and frameworks on land governance provide a useful roadmap for African states to follow to improve governance of the tenure of land, fisheries, forests and other natural resources. These resources remain the basis of the livelihoods of most rural African citizens, yet they are also increasingly prized by private investors. To avoid a large-scale resource grab by corporate interests, the FAO and AU have appealed to African states to implement these guidelines so as to strengthen land and resource rights, providing legal recognition and institutional support for indigenous, customary and other informal property rights. To implement such reforms will require strong leadership from line ministries responsible for land rights and land administration, as well as adequate resourcing from national budgets and development partners.
Until these systems are in place, rural communities are likely to remain unaware of their rights and responsibilities under FAO, AU and other guidelines. The three cases from Tanzania, Malawi and Namibia show how urgently African farmers and other rural citizens need information regarding their rights and entitlements, and support to engage with external investors so as to either give or withhold their consent for new investments and, where they wish to partner with private sector partners, to leverage beneficial terms and establish inclusive business partnerships. These are the ways in which improving governance of land tenure underpins sustainable rural livelihoods.
Only with these measures in place can resource grabs be avoided and private investment be channelled into inclusive agricultural development.
Policies promoting biofuels development through financial incentives in Europe and in the United ... more Policies promoting biofuels development through financial incentives in Europe and in the United States of America are major drivers of the ‘land rush’ in many African countries. Yet, we know that most of the first projects have not achieved their intended objectives on the ground. Amidst these controversial and failed investments, which continue to hold large tracts of land in Africa, the G8 initiative called the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition is trying to attract substantial new private investment in agriculture in ten African countries. The New Alliance focuses on public-private investments, with host governments offering large tracts of land to investors. These land-based investments follow similar patterns to unrealised ambitions of biofuels investments. Given the evidence of negative impacts of biofuels investments on rural communities’ access to and control of land, water and forests, the New Alliance implementing partners need to consider lessons from the biofuels rush, and take different pathways to avoid such impacts.
... authors alone. See http://www.sandcounty.net/ View all notes. The second author,Emmanuel Sull... more ... authors alone. See http://www.sandcounty.net/ View all notes. The second author,Emmanuel Sulle, conducted research in 2007 for the NGO that focused on an analysis of revenues from tourism (Sulle, 200740. Sulle, E. 2007. The ...
International and regional guidelines and frameworks on land governance provide a useful roadmap ... more International and regional guidelines and frameworks on land governance provide a useful roadmap for African states to follow to improve governance of the tenure of land, fisheries, forests and other natural resources. These resources remain the basis of the livelihoods of most rural African citizens, yet they are also increasingly prized by private investors. To avoid a large-scale resource grab by corporate interests, the FAO and AU have appealed to African states to implement these guidelines so as to strengthen land and resource rights, providing legal recognition and institutional support for indigenous, customary and other informal property rights. To implement such reforms will require strong leadership from line ministries responsible for land rights and land administration, as well as adequate resourcing from national budgets and development partners.
Until these systems are in place, rural communities are likely to remain unaware of their rights and responsibilities under FAO, AU and other guidelines. The three cases from Tanzania, Malawi and Namibia show how urgently African farmers and other rural citizens need information regarding their rights and entitlements, and support to engage with external investors so as to either give or withhold their consent for new investments and, where they wish to partner with private sector partners, to leverage beneficial terms and establish inclusive business partnerships. These are the ways in which improving governance of land tenure underpins sustainable rural livelihoods.
Only with these measures in place can resource grabs be avoided and private investment be channelled into inclusive agricultural development.
Policies promoting biofuels development through financial incentives in Europe and in the United ... more Policies promoting biofuels development through financial incentives in Europe and in the United States of America are major drivers of the ‘land rush’ in many African countries. Yet, we know that most of the first projects have not achieved their intended objectives on the ground. Amidst these controversial and failed investments, which continue to hold large tracts of land in Africa, the G8 initiative called the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition is trying to attract substantial new private investment in agriculture in ten African countries. The New Alliance focuses on public-private investments, with host governments offering large tracts of land to investors. These land-based investments follow similar patterns to unrealised ambitions of biofuels investments. Given the evidence of negative impacts of biofuels investments on rural communities’ access to and control of land, water and forests, the New Alliance implementing partners need to consider lessons from the biofuels rush, and take different pathways to avoid such impacts.
... authors alone. See http://www.sandcounty.net/ View all notes. The second author,Emmanuel Sull... more ... authors alone. See http://www.sandcounty.net/ View all notes. The second author,Emmanuel Sulle, conducted research in 2007 for the NGO that focused on an analysis of revenues from tourism (Sulle, 200740. Sulle, E. 2007. The ...
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livelihoods of most rural African citizens, yet they are also increasingly prized by private investors. To avoid a large-scale resource grab by corporate interests, the FAO and AU have appealed to African states to implement these guidelines so as to strengthen land and resource rights, providing legal recognition and institutional support for indigenous, customary and other informal property rights.
To implement such reforms will require strong leadership from line ministries responsible for land rights and land administration, as well as adequate resourcing from national budgets and development partners.
Until these systems are in place, rural communities are likely to remain unaware of their rights and responsibilities under FAO, AU and other guidelines. The three cases from Tanzania, Malawi and Namibia show how urgently African farmers and other rural citizens need information regarding their rights and entitlements, and support to engage with external investors so as to either give or withhold their consent for new investments and, where they wish to partner with private sector partners, to leverage beneficial terms and establish inclusive business partnerships. These are the ways in which improving governance of land tenure underpins sustainable rural livelihoods.
Only with these measures in place can resource grabs be avoided and private investment be channelled into inclusive agricultural development.
livelihoods of most rural African citizens, yet they are also increasingly prized by private investors. To avoid a large-scale resource grab by corporate interests, the FAO and AU have appealed to African states to implement these guidelines so as to strengthen land and resource rights, providing legal recognition and institutional support for indigenous, customary and other informal property rights.
To implement such reforms will require strong leadership from line ministries responsible for land rights and land administration, as well as adequate resourcing from national budgets and development partners.
Until these systems are in place, rural communities are likely to remain unaware of their rights and responsibilities under FAO, AU and other guidelines. The three cases from Tanzania, Malawi and Namibia show how urgently African farmers and other rural citizens need information regarding their rights and entitlements, and support to engage with external investors so as to either give or withhold their consent for new investments and, where they wish to partner with private sector partners, to leverage beneficial terms and establish inclusive business partnerships. These are the ways in which improving governance of land tenure underpins sustainable rural livelihoods.
Only with these measures in place can resource grabs be avoided and private investment be channelled into inclusive agricultural development.