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The Land Portal's updated Theory of Change is a roadmap for what we hope to achieve in the short, medium, and long terms (outcomes and impact), and how we plan to achieve them (inputs and outputs). This roadmap is useful for understanding and assessing the impact of the Land Portal orgaization on the land sector. This TOC has been updated in 2022 and replaces the TOC found in our strategy document.
Climate Resilient Rice Commercialization Sector Development Program
General
The Climate Resilient Rice Commercialization Sector Development Program (SDP) is proposed to support and accelerate the efficient and effective implementation of the Strategy on Agriculture and Water (SAW) and the Policy on the Promotion of Paddy Production and Rice Export (the Rice Policy). It will address food security and rice commercialization by prioritizing: (i) strengthening the rice value chain; (ii) improving the legal and regulatory framework in agricultural land management; (iii) improving access to credit by paddy producers and rice millers/exporters; and (iv) enhancing paddy production and productivity through improved irrigation water use efficiency, establishment of paddy post-harvesting facilities, and paddy crop insurance pilots. The SDP will (i) address major strategic thrusts of the 2011-2013 Country Partnership Strategy, and sector strategies and roadmap; and (ii) complement the on-going sector initiatives by emphasizing the commercialization aspects of rice.
Land Productivity Project
General
Morocco II - Land Productivity Project: This project aims to increase land productivity in Morocco by enabling land markets to better respond to investor demand and by strengthening the enabling environment for investment.
Browse Our New Section on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure
The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure is an internationally negotiated framework to improve land governance. For those working in the land sector, it is a framework which is referred to regularly. Perhaps this is because the VGGT comprises inputs from over 1000 stakeholders with different cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world. Since its’ inception in 2012, as of today, almost 140 countries have officially endorsed the VGGT in international forums.
In 2017, the fifth anniversary of the VGGT highlighted their successful integration into national law and decision-making processes across several countries. The uptake of the Guidelines has steadily grown in the past five years, aided by the development of tools and resources and further supported by an umbrella program at FAO that has carried these processes forward in 60 countries.
Currently, there is no official monitoring or implementation assessment framework for the VGGT. While global frameworks such as the VGGTs and SDGs have established clear objectives towards improved land governance, questions on how to monitor progress towards these goals and evaluate the impact of related interventions remain unanswered. In fact, the VGGTs call on States to establish multi-stakeholder platforms that would monitor implementation, while the SDGs include a clear mandate for data collection to provide "high-quality, timely, and reliable data" that reflect local contexts.
Responding to this call, the last five years have seen a range of monitoring and data generation initiatives and tools blossom. Despite these numerous initiatives, key information about if and how countries are adopting the VGGT remains fragmented, difficult to locate, and is not easily accessible or usable. This has made it challenging to track and monitor who is doing what in terms of VGGT implementation. It is with this in mind that the Land Portal has created a platform devoted to consolidating data and information on the VGGT. A significant amount of VGGT-related information is already published online on the Land Portal. However, this global online hub will ensure greater accessibility and use of a wide range of VGGT-related documentation through improved knowledge sharing at all levels.
The VGGT platform aims to track data and information that relates to VGGT implementation, provide open access to a wide range of VGGT related documents and organize this wealth of contents to facilitate understanding, access and reuse of this information. This platform is the result of feedback provided by land tenure experts and organizations with a long history of experience in the land governance sector. The structure of this portfolio integrates the feedback provided by land tenure experts and organizations with a long experience in the land governance sector, which makes it the result of a collaborative and high-level consultation effort.
The VGGT is a long and complex document. Both the monitoring and implementation of the guidelines is no easy feat. Our goal is to provide a dynamic and up to date overview of existing information on the VGGT that reflects its complexity in easy to understand ways.
To learn more visit: https://landportal.org/voluntary-guidelines
DFID land portfolio
The first of its kind for DFID’s land programmes, LEGEND’S Portfolio Overviews look across up to 26 of DFID’s programmes to capture where and how DFID programmes engage on land tenure issue, drawing out successes and common challenges, and prompting important questions about DFID’s work on land governance in the years to come.
LEGEND outputs provide findings for staff designing, managing and implementing programmes, including how programmes have strengthened tenure security for women both through land registration programmes and alternative approaches such as legal empowerment.
Reports & Research
February, 2016
Global
The LEGEND Knowledge Management team has published a Portfolio Overview that looks across 24 DFID land programmes. It looks at how programmes are designed, where they work, what they do and how they have performed. It looks at both the main programmes that work on land governance and those that work on land to achieve a broader set of objectives.
2016 DFID Land Portfolio Overview
Reports & Research
February, 2017
Global
The Portfolio Overview provides a global overview of DFID's programmes working on land issues and highlights lessons and trends emerging from major land programmes over recent years.
Can technology revolutionise efforts to secure land rights?
Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2017
Global
This LEGEND bulletin considers the impact that new technology can have on documenting land rights and democratising access to land data around the world.
LEGEND Land Policy Bulletin 11
DFID’s work on land: what future priorities?
Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2018
Global
This bulletin highlights the breadth of DFID's current portfolio on land and prompts important questions about DFID’s work on land governance in the years to come.
Achieving land rights at scale
Clarifying and securing land rights for land users of all kinds underpins economic growth and development and is critical to minimise land-related disputes and wider conflicts, contributing to national peace and stability.
The UK Government (DFID) has played a leading role in the design and implementation of land tenure reform, capacity-building for land institutions and the roll-out of large-scale tenure regularisation activities. LEGEND has reviewed DFID’s main land tenure regularisation programmes, highlighting learnings in the design, implementation and follow-up of country land programmes and broader land support facilities.
Lessons and guiding principles from DFID land tenure regularisation and land sector support programmes
Reports & Research
June, 2019
Africa, Asia, Global
This report reflects on the experience of DFID land programmes which include LTR across six countries (Guyana, Rwanda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Mozambique), drawing also on relevant experiences of programmes driven by other donors.
Options for Securing Tenure and Documenting Land Rightsin Mozambique: A Land Policy & Practice Paper
Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2020
Eastern Africa, Mozambique
One of the key aspects of the Mozambican legal framework for land is that Mozambican nationals can acquire tenure rights through inheritance, via peaceful occupation or through customary channels These usufruct tenure rights, known by the Portuguese acronym ‘DUAT’ (Direito de Uso e Aproveitamento da Terra), can be held individually or jointly.
Opções para Garantir a Posse e a Documentação dos Direitos à Terra em Moçambique
Um Documento sobre as Políticas e Práticas de Acesso à Terra
Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2020
Eastern Africa, Mozambique
Um dos principais aspectos do quadro legal moçambicano de terras é que os cidadãos Moçambicanos podem adquirir direitos de posse por herança, por ocupação pacífica ou por canais costumeiros. Estes usufruem de direitos de posse, conhecidos pelo acrônimo em língua portuguesa 'DUAT' (Direito de Uso e Aproveitamento da Terra), que podem ser possuídos individualmente ou em conjunto.
Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2020
Eastern Africa, Mozambique
This Briefing Paper is based on the outcomes and lessons from projects recently completed in Mozambique, funded by DFID’s LEGEND programme, wider analysis conducted by that programme, and the knowledge and practical experience of the authors. The briefing is a summary of a longer Policy & Practice Paper by Norfolk, S., Quan, J. & D. Mullins (2020), “Land Policy and Practice in Mozambique: Options for Securing Tenure and Documenting Land Rights”.
Opções para Garantir a Põsse e a Dõcumentaçaõ dõs Direitõs a Terra em Mõçambique
Infõrmativõ Breve sõbre as Põlíticas e Praticas de Acessõ a Terra
Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2020
Eastern Africa, Mozambique
Este documento informativo é baseado nos resultados e lições aprendidas em projectos realizados recentemente em Moçambique, financiados pelo programa LEGEND do DFID, nas análises mais amplas conduzidas por esse programa, e no conhecimento e experiência prática dos autores. O documento é um resumo de um Documento mais longo sobre Política e Práticas de Norfolk, S., Quan, J. & D.
Focus on the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2016
Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2016
Global
This LEGEND bulletin provides an overview of the main themes discussed and key messages identified by the LEGEND Core Land Support Team (CLST) during the 17th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty.
Can technology revolutionise efforts to secure land rights?
Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2017
Global
This LEGEND bulletin considers the impact that new technology can have on documenting land rights and democratising access to land data around the world.
LEGEND Land Policy Bulletin 10
Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2018
Global
This LEGEND bulletin explores early experiences and emerging lessons from four of these projects, and includes testimony from community members attesting to their positive results.
LEGEND Land Policy Bulletin 11
DFID’s work on land: what future priorities?
Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2018
Global
This bulletin highlights the breadth of DFID's current portfolio on land and prompts important questions about DFID’s work on land governance in the years to come.
LEGEND Land Policy Bulletin 14
Securing land rights at scale: eight lessons and guiding principles on land tenure regularisation
Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2019
Africa, Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania
This bulletin focuses on land tenure regularisation (LTR), with articles from practitioners to accompany the new LEGEND report Securing land rights at scale: eight lessons and guiding principles on land tenure regularisation.
UK Land Policy Forum
"[The UKLPF] is a great platform for policy discussions and action around land-based investments and I do hope you will manage to continue the great work.”-participant in final UKLPF.
Overview of the UK Land Policy Forum
The UK Land Policy Forum (UKLPF) was set up in 2015 to provide a focus for debate, information and lesson sharing amongst UK stakeholders to inform DFID and wider UK policy and programming for strengthening of land governance and land rights protection.
The forum held events every six months between November 2015 and December 2019, covering themes of corruption, women’s economic empowerment, forests, legal empowerment and much more.
It has acted as an informal meeting space to build networks, exchange ideas and discuss what has and has not worked in interventions to strengthen land rights at scale and responsible land investment. It created a sense of community and enabled the land community to reach out to other thematic communities.
UKLPF 1
The first meeting of the forum brought together stakeholders – from investors to academics, to practitioners – to introduce the LEGEND programme and discuss its future direction. This event set the scene for future forum events, with participants identifying priorities for future UKLPF themes and their hopes for what the forum could achieve.
UKLPF 2
In the lead-up to the UK’s Anti-Corruption Summit in May 2016, the UKLPF convened an event to highlight the risks of land corruption and the relevance of land to broader governance. This event featured research on land-related corruption processes, impacts, and policy and practice solutions from LEGEND-CLST and Streamhouse Ltd, Transparency International and ICAR. The Land Registry of England and Wales presented proposals to extend the Registry of Beneficial Ownership to a broader set of UK-related land and property owners to reduce corruption.
UKLPF 3
Building on the launch of the High-level Panel (HLP) report on and women’s economic empowerment (WEE) in September 2016, this event discussed the link between land and WEE, and steps the land community could take to support the HLP recommendations. The meeting reviewed the HLP report and its references to land, LEGEND work to update the evidence on land and WEE, and examples across Africa, Asia and Latin America of how women’s land rights are being strengthened through DAI’s and RRI’s work.
UKLPF 4
Innovations in technology are revolutionising efforts to document land rights and to open up access to land data around the world; however, they are not without challenges. This event was convened to discuss the use of new technologies to map and document land rights, and their impact on land registration and administration, highlighting the opportunities and challenges. Countries featured included Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia, drawing on the experience of DAI, Namati and Cadasta.
UKLPF 5
With growing efforts being made to promote legal empowerment in the context of transnational agribusiness investments, this forum discussed approaches and tools, and practical experience in legal empowerment. Countries featured included Liberia, Kenya, DRC, Cameroon, Sierra Leone and Ghana, drawing on experience from Namati, CCSI, the Forest Peoples Programme and IIED’s longstanding Legal Tools for Citizen Empowerment work.
Summary blog: Legal empowerment and agribusiness investments
Summary blog: Legal empowerment: what we do, what we've learned (link is external)
UKLPF 6
UKLPF VI: Land and Inclusive Agribusiness
In the run-up to the publication of the LEGEND Core Land Support Team’s State of the Debate Report on Inclusive Agribusiness in September 2018, this Forum provided an opportunity to discuss whether the tide is turning around investment strategies in agriculture. With a heightened interest in outgrower schemes, the audience debated whether large companies are in the process of abandoning “nucleus” or plantation-based, production models in favour of more inclusive production models, and what opportunities and challenge to rural land rights this development presents.
UKLPF 7
UKLPF VII: Land, Forests and Climate
Organised in collaboration with DFID’s Partnerships for Forests (P4F) programme, this meeting aimed to draw together lessons from the LEGEND and P4F programmes. Participants explored how forest protection, secure land rights and responsible investment in forest areas can be combined to promote responsible and sustainable and inclusive investments in forest land. Linkages between efforts to encourage better land governance and tackle climate change and prevent deforestation were also discussed.
UKLPF 8
UKLPF VIII: Benefits, achievements and consequences of DFID’s Land Tenure Regularisation (LTR Programmes)
Since its involvement in Land Tenure Regularisation (LTR) from 2002-04 in Guyana, DFID has expanded its portfolio of programmes to support LTR in other countries, including Rwanda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Mozambique. LEGEND CLST partnered with DAI to produce a report to reflect on DFID’s experience of Land Tenure Regularisation programmes, and draw together lessons and findings for donors and in-country advisors thinking about future programming and implementation. The report was presented and published at the forum, giving attendees an opportunity to discuss and provide feedback on these findings.
UKLPF 9
UKLPF IX: Urban land
Organised in collaboration with UN-Habitat, this forum focussed on the increasingly important theme of urban land governance. Rapid expansion and development of cities, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, creates significant development opportunities and challenges. In order to provide a primary location for the development of high-value added sectors, cities need to be planned and managed effectively. Land governance is critical to this and determines several crucial conditions for inclusive urban development. The forum explored the principal barriers to effective urban land governance and how they can be overcome, drawing on successful lessons from rural land governance.
UKLPF 10
UKLPF X: Responsible Land Investment – Reflecting on Learnings from LEGEND-CLST and looking ahead to DFID’s future programming on land
The 10th and final Forum provided an opportunity to reflect on achievements and learnings, and openly discuss DFID’s past, present and future programming around land. It presented and discussed the most important findings from the past five years of the LEGEND programme, with a particular focus on responsible land investment. It also updated the audience on DFID’s land portfolio and provided participants, including policymakers, researchers and CSOs a chance to debate on and feed into DFID’s future thinking.
Responsible land investment
If carried out responsibly, more and better investment in agriculture could help improve rural livelihoods in low and middle-income countries. There are different visions of what constitutes responsible land investment (RLI) and how to successfully implement it, but it is clear that legal compliance alone is not enough: government and businesses need to recognise legitimate tenure rights of those affected by investment projects.
LEGEND outputs focus on drawing out the core elements of good practice to achieve fundamental aspects of RLI and address the information and power asymmetries that preclude any fair and informed negotiation.
Slide deck: Six private sector insights on responsible land investment in sub-Saharan Africa
Training Resources & Tools
March, 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa
This slide deck present's LEGEND's work on responsible land investment in sub-Saharan Africa.
Responsible Land Investment Lessons from five years of LEGEND CLST
Institutional & promotional materials
March, 2020
Global
There are different visions of what constitutes responsible land investment (RLI) and how to successfully implement it, but it is clear that legal compliance alone is not enough. This resource covers 7 Responsible Land Investment key lessons.
Responsible land investment in sub-Saharan Africa
Six insights from the private sector
Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa
This briefing consists of six insights drawn from the feedback of qualitative interviews with 37 companies aiming to invest responsibly in land, drawing on key principles from the CFS-RAI Principle 5 and the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT).
Are development finance institutions equipped to address land rights issues?
A stocktake of practice in agriculture
Reports & Research
March, 2019
Africa, United States of America, Asia, Europe
Bilateral development finance institutions (DFIs) play an increasingly prominent role in the international aid architecture. Because of their position between development and commercial worlds, DFIs can be a key player in efforts to align private sector conduct with international norms and standards.
Are development finance institutions equipped to address land rights issues? [Executive Summary]
A stocktake of practice in agriculture
Reports & Research
March, 2019
Africa, United States of America, Asia, Europe
Bilateral development finance institutions (DFIs) play an increasingly prominent role in the international aid architecture. Because of their position between development and commercial worlds, DFIs can be a key player in efforts to align private sector conduct with international norms and standards.
Investing Responsibly in Agricultural Land
Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa
Reports & Research
December, 2019
Sub-Saharan Africa
This report details practical lessons on how to approach responsible land based investments in agriculture, derived from the experiences of LEGEND challenge fund projects and other pilots in Africa.
The need for proper attention to land tenure issues in investment planning and due diligence
Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa, Case Study 1
Reports & Research
January, 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper is one of three thematic case studies resulting from a set of pilot projects undertaken jointly by civil society and private business partners from 2016–2019 in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa. These pilots sought to test how private companies could collaborate with civil society organisations and other stakeholders to implement responsible agribusiness investments that recognise and respect community land rights, and to develop innovative tools and approaches that could be adopted and implemented at greater scale.
Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa, Case Study 2
Reports & Research
March, 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Sierra Leone
This paper is one of three thematic case studies resulting from a set of pilot projects undertaken jointly by civil society and private business partners from 2016–2019 in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa. These pilots sought to test how private companies could collaborate with civil society organisations and other stakeholders to implement responsible agribusiness investments that recognise and respect community land rights, and to develop innovative tools and approaches that could be adopted and implemented at greater scale.
Reducing concession size, adjusting business plans and developing more inclusive business models
Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa, Case Study 3
Reports & Research
March, 2020
Malawi, Mozambique, Western Africa, Ghana, Sierra Leone
This paper is one of three thematic case studies resulting from a set of pilot projects undertaken jointly by civil society and private business partners from 2016–2019 in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa. These pilots sought to test how private companies could collaborate with civil society organisations and other stakeholders to implement responsible agribusiness investments that recognise and respect community land rights, and to develop innovative tools and approaches that could be adopted and implemented at greater scale.
Addressing legacy land issues in agribusiness investments
Reports & Research
May, 2016
Global
This Analytical Paper explores legacy land issues as they affect agribusiness investments in low- and middle-income countries.
Legacy land issues: Addressing historical disputes in agribusiness investments
Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2016
Global
This note provides guidance for businesses to identify and address legacy land issues in agricultural investments.
Legal empowerment in agribusiness investments: harnessing political economy analysis
Reports & Research
April, 2017
Global
This analytical paper explores how political economy analysis can help practitioners make sense of the issues, and distils insights from practical experience on how legal empowerment initiatives can rise to the challenge. It is aimed at legal empowerment practioners and analysts.
Briefing note: Legal Empowerment in Agribusiness Investments
Harnessing Political Economy Analysis
Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2017
Global
This briefing note explores how political economy analysis can help practitioners make sense of the issues, and distils insights from practical experience on how legal empowerment initiatives can rise to the challenge.
Land governance and inclusive business in agriculture: advancing the debate
Reports & Research
October, 2018
Global
This report reviews the idea of inclusiveness in agricultural investments and analyses what ‘inclusiveness’ means to different value chain actors.
Evidence update 1: Land, population and agricultural investment in Africa
Reports & Research
October, 2016
Africa
Evidence updates, produced by LEGEND’s Core Land Support Team, provide a series of short briefs, summarising emerging bodies of evidence from different sources on key themes related to land governance or particular country issues. They offer technical advisers, policy-makers and researchers a way of keeping abreast of research to provide a source of quick evidence-based pointers on what to do and what to avoid in land-related policy and programming.
Focus on the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2016
Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2016
Global
This LEGEND bulletin provides an overview of the main themes discussed and key messages identified by the LEGEND Core Land Support Team (CLST) during the 17th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty.
Why land governance?
Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2015
Global
DFID is delighted to launch the first Land Policy Bulletin, which introduces a new land and responsible investment programme - Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND).
LEGEND Land Policy Bulletin 14
Securing land rights at scale: eight lessons and guiding principles on land tenure regularisation
Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2019
Africa, Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania
This bulletin focuses on land tenure regularisation (LTR), with articles from practitioners to accompany the new LEGEND report Securing land rights at scale: eight lessons and guiding principles on land tenure regularisation.
LEGEND Land Policy Bulletin 13
Responsible investments: are new initiatives hinting towards a shift in practice?
Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2019
Eastern Africa, Tanzania, Western Africa, Global
This bulletin highlights initiatives to support socially responsible investment.
LEGEND Land Policy Bulletin 12
Inclusive business and agriculture: what are we learning from the field?
Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2019
Global
This bulletin distils lessons from a sugarcane cooperative in Malawi and a forestry investment scheme in Sierra Leone, drawing on the five pillars of inclusive business as identified in the 2018 LEGEND state of the debate report.
LEGEND Land Policy Bulletin 11
DFID’s work on land: what future priorities?
Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2018
Global
This bulletin highlights the breadth of DFID's current portfolio on land and prompts important questions about DFID’s work on land governance in the years to come.
LEGEND Land Policy Bulletin 10
Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2018
Global
This LEGEND bulletin explores early experiences and emerging lessons from four of these projects, and includes testimony from community members attesting to their positive results.
The VGGT five years on – are they changing lives?
Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2017
Global
This LEGEND bulletin considers the key components for monitoring and evaluating the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT).
Agribusiness and land rights: turning good intentions into tangible change
Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2017
Global
This LEGEND bulletin explores the relationship between agribusiness and land rights. It features articles on the power of local engagement for financial investment, using technology for mapping rights, and catalysing private sector respect for community land rights.
Can technology revolutionise efforts to secure land rights?
Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2017
Global
This LEGEND bulletin considers the impact that new technology can have on documenting land rights and democratising access to land data around the world.
Harnessing the law for fairer agricultural investments
Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2017
Global
This LEGEND bulletin takes stock of some of the recent experience in legal empowerment. The result is a kaleidoscope of approaches operating at different levels, but pursuing broadly converging agendas.
Transparency and corruption
In recent years, corruption in land governance has come under greater scrutiny, not least as a result of increased commercial value of agricultural and peri-urban land in developing countries and concerns that corruption may play a role in facilitating large-scale land acquisition by investors.
LEGEND outputs highlight causes, types and effects of corruption in land governance and provide evidence-based recommendations to address corruption, with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.
Tackling corruption in land governance
Reports & Research
May, 2016
Global
This paper seeks to analyse causes, types and effects of corruption in land governance and provide evidence-based recommendations to address corruption, with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.