Resources
Delivering data to the debate: The Land Matrix at the GLF 2025
Authors: Jérémy Bourgoin, Natalia Espinosa Rincón, and Nikka Rivera
As over a thousand participants from around the world converged in Bogotá, Colombia, at this year’s Global Land Forum (GLF) in June, Land Matrix Initiative team members Jérémy Bourgoin, Natalia Espinosa Rincón, and Nikka Rivera joined them, coming together to …
Loggers have ‘grabbed’ around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC
Author: Josh Gabbatiss
Published: 12 March 2024
Source: Carbon Brief
Logging companies have “acquired” roughly 1m hectares of Indigenous peoples’ territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2000, according to a new study.
This is part of a wider trend in which companies and governments take advantage …
Surveying and delineation for non-surveyors training: Enhancing land rights defenders’ capacities through surveying
Land conflict issues in the Philippines, especially the problem of overlapping claims on land tenure, have greatly affected smallholder farmers, indigenous peoples, and local communities. The country’s complex history of land ownership, coupled with the rush for land, rapid urbanization, and economic development has led to numerous disputes over land …
Realizing responsible investment in agriculture: What can policy-makers in Africa learn from Southeast Asia?
Author: Nyaguthii Maina
Published: 2022
Source: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Globally, there has been positive momentum to develop and implement new national laws and international guidance frameworks to promote “responsible” investment in land and agriculture, but Africa still lags far behind other regions in responsible investment practice. …
Pass the Land Use Act
Source: The Manila Times
Published: 29 June 2022
A recent report published by the Land Matrix Initiative has shed some light on the extent of so-called large-scale land acquisitions (LSLA) in the Philippines, and the news is not encouraging. The Philippines is among the top five countries in …
Undercover land rush
Author: Ben Kritz
Source: The Manila Times
Published: 28 June 2022
LAND use is a touchy subject in any country, and particularly so here in the Philippines. The seemingly endless struggle to produce enough food for a steadily expanding population is constantly handicapped by strong competition for control …
Land deals increase income, but not well-being
Source: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland
Published: 7 April 2022
Much arable land in developing countries is inefficiently managed or lies fallow: Since this became the accepted, World Bank-endorsed narrative in 2008, it has shaped the agricultural policies of many developing countries. At the …
Virtual events held in 2021 to boost up UNDFF implementation in the region
Author: Irish Baguilat, Coordinator for the UNDFF and Women Farmers' Agenda of AFA
Source: Asian Farmers' Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA)
Published: 6 January 2022
The pandemic and its consequences have had a huge impact on the livelihoods and welfare of small-scale family farmers. As expressed and observed, the …
PAKISAMA and AFA conduct national presentation and review of the draft report on the overlaps of KBAs, PAs and large-scale land acquisitions in the Philippines
Are the Philippines’ Protected Areas (PAs) and Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) free from the encroachment of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs)? What policies and programmes can we recommend to ensure that these PAs and KBAs are protected? What mitigating actions can we do in areas where there are already LSLAs?
The …
IP leaders use advocacy maps to show how Kaliwa Dam will impact them
With construction set to begin imminently in order to turn Daraitan into the reservoir for the Kaliwa Dam in Rizal, Philippines, there is great concern about the impact this will have on the area and the indigenous people (IP) living there. Daraitan is part of their vast ancestral domain in …