Land, investment and development

Published: 4 February 2010Posted in: FAO, World Bank
AGA2010_Land-Day_participants2Global Donor Platform for Rural Development | 4 February 2010 Land Day event, 24 January 2010, Rome: Land, Investment and Development Jointly hosted by the Platform and FAO/SDC/IFAD Land tenure and access to land are key to a number of rural development issues, not to mention basic economic and social human rights, such as the right to food. Land Day will zero in on land and associated agro-industry related global challenges with a long-term rural development perspective. It will provided an important opportunity to share knowledge on the diversity of initiatives related to land policies, land governance and investment and rural development, and provide ground to move toward identifying a tool kit for improved coordination among stakeholders. Meeting objectives
  • To share knowledge on the diversity of ongoing initiatives related to land policies and land tenure;
  • To put some of the recent and new land-related global challenges and new topics in context and in a broader perspective, considering linkages in a perspective of long-term rural development;
  • To prepare a possible improved collaboration and cooperation among stakeholders and establish a further process of knowledge exchange with a broader group of stakeholders.
The outputs of Land Day will be subsequently taken up at a session on Land and Development at the Platform Annual General Assembly, 26-27 January 2010. AGA2010_Land-Day_participants3Event handouts Agenda List of participants Additional resources Report Addendum by Olivier de Schutter Presentations Land Access for Rural Development & Poverty Alleviation Harold Liversage, IFAD A survey of the range of business models that provide opportunities for smallholders Lorenzo Cotula and Sonja Vermeulen, IIED The role of the private sector lessons learned from the plantation sector and extractive industries Reinier de Man, SBD Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and other Natural Resources Initiative Paul Munro-Faure, FAO SCALAR Management Initiative Design and Assessment of a Land-extensive Agro-enterprise Scheme Steve Rochlin and Steve Homer, AccountAbilityAGA2010_Land-Day Sustainable large scale agriculture – Lessons learned from the forestry sector Bernd Schanzenbächer, EBG Large scale land acquisition – What is happening and what can we do? Klaus Deininger, World Bank Principles on Responsible Agroenterprise Investment Klaus Deininger, World Bank

Source: Global Donor Platform