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Job Opportunity: Senior Legal or Policy Researcher
CCSI is hiring a Senior Legal or Policy Researcher to work on our Land, Agriculture & Food Systems portfolio of projects. This position will collaborate with CCSI’s Director and Research Staff
Congo: Govt reaches deal with the private sector to develop state land reserves
The Congolese government approved on September 20 the bill approving the partnership agreement with Total Nature Based Solutions (TNBS), Congo First Company (CFC), and Forest Neutral Congo (FNC) fo
How do we channel the ESG investment boom towards low-income countries?
Private financial flows that are tracked against certain Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria reached record highs in 2020.
Nearly half of investors in Africa have experienced disputes with local communities – new research
Almost half (46%) of investors surveyed in sub-Saharan Africa have experienced disputes with local communities over land, new research from the ODI and TMP Systems has found.
Job Opportunity: Legal or Policy Researcher
This position will collaborate with the Director and Research Staff of the Law School's Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment to execute the Center’s applied research agenda on the laws, p
5 reasons why tropical forest protection should be central to corporate climate strategies
The climate crisis cannot be solved without ending tropical deforestation, which increased by 12% between 2019 and 2020.
Global demand for manganese puts Kayapó Indigenous land under pressure
InfoAmazonia’s Amazônia Minada project has found an unusual rise in demand to mine for manganese last year in Brazil, one of the world’s top producers of the metal.
Investing in Formal Land Rights for Commodity Smallholder Farmers: Lessons from land tenure public-private partnerships
The Côte d’Ivoire Land Partnership (CLAP) brings public and private sectors together to work for affordable land documentation for smallholder farmers at scale.
Development Impact of Land-Based Investment in Times of Crisis: Learning and exchange by the LANDac Professional Learning Network
The session addressed the impacts of land-based investments on poor and vulnerable people in the Global South.
Critical Insights on the Land Governance Orthodoxy
This panel took a critical look at the land governance orthodoxy that has consolidated on the heels of the financial crisis and outcry over "global land grabs" at the end of the 2000s.