1. 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

2. ‘ Agricultural investment’, or ‘land grabbing’?

3. Natural resource investments and the law

4. 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

5. 1) Analysis to promote public scrutiny and influence policy

6. 2) Strengthen capacity to exercise rights http://bit.ly/investmentchains Animation: Promoting accountability in investment chains

7. 3) Int’l lesson sharing for scaling impacts

8. Value of lesson sharing Diverse contexts and approaches, recurring challenges Eg agency, sustainability, scalability Law and politics Local-to-global action

9. www.iied.org/legal-tools