Find the most relevant guidance based on your area of intervention

Find the most relevant guidance based on your area of focus

Resources for Operators

20 - Empowering Women - Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI): Knowledge into Action Notes series

Tools and Guides
 

This note is part of an Action Notes series and provides guidance for governments and companies on practices to reduce gender inequalities and to empower women to make a positive contribution to development through agricultural investments.

21- Participation of Youth - Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI): Knowledge into Action Notes series

Tools and Guides
 

This note is part of an Action Notes series and provides guidance for governments and companies on examples to follow to engage youth in participating in agriculture.

22 - Food Security and Nutrition - Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI): Knowledge into Action Notes series

Tools and Guides
 

This note is part of an Action Notes series and provides guidance for governments and companies on practices to reduce gender inequalities and to empower women to make a positive contribution to development through agricultural investments.

24 - Enhancing Local Economic Impact - Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI): Knowledge into Action Notes series

Tools and Guides
 

This note is part of an Action Notes series and provides guidance for governments and companies on how to ensure that an agricultural investment generates positive impacts on the local economy by encouraging and supporting opportunities arising for individuals, farmers, businesses, and institutions.

3 - Choosing Appropriate Business Models - Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI): Knowledge into Action Notes series

Tools and Guides
 

This note is part of an Action Notes series and provides guidance for governments and companies on how to design business models for responsible agricultural investment. It outlines the general types of models available and the considerations for selecting and/or designing a blended model to suit the context of the investment.

4 - Outgrower Schemes - Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI): Knowledge into Action Notes series

Tools and Guides
 

This note is part of an Action Notes series and provides guidance for governments and companies on the design and implementation of outgrower schemes to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes for investors and smallholders.

9 - Monitoring Investments - Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI): Knowledge into Action Notes series

Tools and Guides
 

This note is part of an Action Notes series and provides guidance for governments and companies on how to monitor the performance and impact of agricultural investments, and on which aspects to observe.

A Business Reference Guide - United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Tools and Guides
 

This guide aims to help businesses -companies, investors, buyers- understand, respect, and support the rights of indigenous peoples by illustrating how these rights are relevant to business activities. It encourages business to engage in meaningful consultation and partnership with indigenous peoples on a local level and to adapt the principles discussed and practices suggested here to their distinct situations and contexts. It

• outlines key actions business can take in relation to indigenous peoples’ rights, including policy commitment, due diligence, consultation and consent-seeking, grievance mechanisms, mitigation and remediation, and

• provides a description of each right in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, suggests practical actions that business can take to respect and support each right, and examples to help illustrate those suggested actions.

A Framework for Disclosure in Public-Private Partnership Projects

Tools and Guides
 

This framework provides guidance on policy and practice in public-private partnerships and on the mechanics of disclosure by practitioners within governments and the private sector, to help develop programmes for the systematic, proactive pre- and post- procurement disclosure of information.

A guidance note on managing legacy land issues in agribusiness investments

Tools and Guides
 

This document provides guidance to agribusiness companies and investors that face legacy land issues and seek to manage them to manage social impacts for project-affected communities. It outlines tools to address these issues and safeguard the rights of local communities, and to promote community development and business opportunities for mutual benefits.