Promoting transparency and accountability in land acquisitions

The Land Matrix is an independent land monitoring initiative that promotes transparency and accountability in decisions over large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in low- and middle-income countries by capturing and sharing data about these deals.

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Deal narratives

Who benefits from tree-planting in the Global South? The case of two carbon offset projects in Laos

2024-03-06

With biological carbon removal projects already receiving large parts of the increasing financial flows towards carbon offsetting, this deal narrative illustrates the ensuing trade-offs and potential benefits using the example of two land deals from the Land Matrix database in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), commonly known as Laos. …

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Publications

Large-scale acquisitions of communal land in the Global South: Assessing the risks and formulating policy recommendations

2024-03-13

Authors: Jorge A. Rincón Barajas, Christoph Kubitza and Jann Lay
Published: 2024
Source: Land Use Policy

This research by Land Matrix partner GIGA conceptualises and empirically assesses the socioeconomic and environmental risks of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) for communal lands in the Global South. These risks include the displacement of …

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Events

World Bank Land Conference 2024

2024-03-13

The World Bank Land Conference is the premier forum for the land sector, bringing together participants from governments, development partners, civil society, academia, and the private sector to showcase research, discuss issues and good practice, and inform policy dialogue. The Conference encourages cross-sectoral knowledge exchange and has incubated numerous investments, …

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News

Loggers have ‘grabbed’ around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC

2024-03-14

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 of …

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Donors

  • European Commission (EC)
  • German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
  • Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Partners

  • Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
  • Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)
  • German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
  • International Land Coalition (ILC)
  • Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA)
  • Centre for Environmental Initiatives - Ecoaction
  • Fundación para el Desarrollo en Justicia y Paz (FUNDAPAZ)

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