Land, investment and rights 1 Lorenzo Cotula 21 November 2014 Lorenzo Cotula, PhD Principal Researcher & Team Leader – Legal Tools Natural Resources Group International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Legal Tools for Citizen Empowerment Strengthening local rights and voices in natural resource investments
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Lorenzo Cotula, PhDPrincipal Researcher & Team Leader – Legal Tools
Natural Resources Group
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Legal Tools for Citizen Empowerment
Strengthening local rights and voices in natural resource investments
‘Agricultural investment’, or ‘land grabbing’?
Natural resource investments and the law
Strengthen local rights and voices in natural resource investments in low and middle-income countries
Supporting existing innovation in using law for empowerment – by civil society, social movements, villagers
Through generative evidence, testing tools, facilitating lesson sharing
1) Analysis to promote public scrutiny and influence policy
2) Strengthen capacity to exercise rights
http://bit.ly/investmentchains
Animation: Promoting accountability in investment chains