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International Land Coalition. Commercial Pressures on Land Initiative Overview ILC Assembly of Members 22 nd April 2009 Kathmandu, Nepal. Future faces of agricultural production…. Goal.
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International Land Coalition Commercial Pressures on Land Initiative Overview ILC Assembly of Members 22nd April 2009 Kathmandu, Nepal
Goal • Support efforts of ILC members and other stakeholders to influence global, regional and national processes on land to enable secure and equitable access to land for poor women and men in the face of increasing commercial demand for land
Component 1: Web-based portal Objective: • To provide facilitate provision and exchange of information so as to increase transparency and awareness of commercial pressures on land
Outputs: • Blog http://www.landcoalition.org/cpl-blog/: • Current articles • Research papers • Hub for exchange • E-seminars • Database • Maps representing geo-referenced data
2: Global study Objectives: • To increase understanding of the current and anticipated impacts on poverty of commercial pressures on land on the tenure security of the poor, particularly in the context of the work of ILC members • To explore possible policy and operational solutions, both to mitigate negative impacts, and to enable poor land users to benefit from possible opportunities provided by the increased commercial value of land
Outputs: • c.5 studies on key thematic issues • c.5 studies on key countries • c.10 studies by members • Global synthesis and overview of impacts and opportunities
3. Conferences and seminars Objective • To provide opportunities for face-to-face exchange of information and collaborative planning by collaborating partners, and to facilitate linkages with similar initiatives by other organisations
Outputs • Dedicated seminars • July 8th Utrecht seminar on developing responses (with U of Gröningen and Oxfam-Novib) • Early 2010 for all collaborating members • Exchange through wider conferences and seminars, eg. • CIRAD Journée foncière Sept 2009 • GTZ dialogue "Access to land - food security“ June 2009 • 3D Human rights, trade and land purchases, May 2009
4. Tool development Objective: • To develop and promote the use of tools for use by investors, host governments, policy makers, donors and civil society organisations to promote and enable the inclusion of local land-users in land-related investments
Outputs could include: • Guidelines for investors in land-related investments • Methodology for investors to gain prior and informed consent from local land users • Policy principles for governments and donors • Benchmarks for best practice in land-related investments • Tools for empowerment of civil society for equitable community-investor partnerships • Possible Code of Conduct for large-scale land acquisitions
Roles in CPL initiative • Scoping study undertaken by Agter to: • recommend modalities • define analytical framework • Develop TORs for different components • CPL advisory group of interested organisations
Collaborating organisations • CIRAD • IIED • AGTER • CIFOR • ALRD • NITLAPAN • COCOCH • RRI • SCOPE • CSRC • ANGOC • MODE • LNWA • UNDP/OGC • IFAD • ZERO • AFRA • BJSA • KENFAP • LAMOSA • CEPES • RECONCILE • KPA • CAPRI
Roles in global study • Key thematic & country chapters of study to be written by members/partners based on existing research interests • Open competition for member chapters • Global synthesis to be coordinated by ILC secretariat with specialist technical support