RESOURCE DOCUMENTS

Land grabbing and land concentration: Quantifying current trends; identifying major players

> World Forum on Access to Land — preparatory continental meeting : land grabbing and land concentration in Europe : Document

> Large scale land appropriations: Analysis of the phenomenon and proposed guidelines for future action / Comité Technique «Foncier et Développement » : Document

> Issues and Conceptual Framework for Understanding Land Grabs / AGTER : Document

> Poverty, hunger and agricultural “investments”. Keys to understanding the current phenomena of land and natural resource appropriation and concentration around the world / AGTER : Document

> Large Scale Land Grabbing : The Role of Multinational Firms / AGTER : Document

«Socially responsible farmland investment» ?

> Socially responsible farmland investment: a growing trap / GRAIN : Document

> Investments in agriculture: a danger or an opportunity for smallholder farmers and humanity? / C2A : Document

Land grabbing in Europe

> The State of Land in Europe / Transnational Institute : Document

> Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe / Transnational Institute : Document

> Agroecology: A Response to the Agricultural and Food Challenges of the 21st Century / C2A : Document

> Economic efficiency and effectiveness of agricultural water use in family farming / C2A : Document

> Fair Share of Water: Ensuring access to water for family farming in the South / C2A : Document

> Agricultural employment, an historical challenge : fighting against farmers’ evictions is imperative ! / Henri Rouillé d’Orfeuil : Document

> Reinstating Economic Evaluations as a Means of Determining whether Agricultural Investment Projects Will Serve the Common Interest / Comité Technique Foncier et Développement  : Document

Diversity of rights to land and rights holders

> Rights to Land and Natural Resources / Michel Merlet : Document

> Origins and grounds of rights. The different systems of recording and validating rights : Document

> Examples of the Diversity of Rights Holders and Rights to Land and Natural Resources in West Africa / Michel Merlet et Kouadio André Yobouet : Document

> Struggles over property rights in the context of large-scale transnational land acquisitions. Using legal pluralism to re-politicize the debate / Pierre Merlet and Johan Bastiaensen : Document

> Reappropriating the Law to recover control of the use of Land / Quentin Hecquet : Document

Rights recognition and security of tenure

> Land Governance and Security of Tenure in Developing Countries / Technical Committee on «Land tenure and Development» : Document

> Myths, deadlocks of land registration and the need for alternative approaches / Technical Committee on «Land tenure and Development» : Document

> Securing and regulating land tenure: putting the issues before the tools. Some of the obstacles to coherent policies / Technical Committee on «Land tenure and Development» : Document

> Can International Law contribute to a more equitable global society ? / Monique Chemillier Gendreau : Document

Forest

> How to protect efficiently the forests without reinforcing the commercial pressures on land? : Document

Fishery resources

> Ocean grabbing : a new wave of enclosures / Transnational Institute : Document

> Main transformations on the access rights to halieutic resources and the management of the fishing resources : Document