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
‘ 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 Animation: Promoting accountability in investment chains
3) Int’l lesson sharing for scaling impacts
Value of lesson sharing Diverse contexts and approaches, recurring challenges Eg agency, sustainability, scalability Law and politics Local-to-global action