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Displaying 26 - 30 of 338Procedures and Processes to Ensure Responsible Agricultural and Forestry Investments in Lao PDR
This guides provides steps that investors have to take to establish an agricultural and forestry investment in Laos, and the key processes involved e.g. land acquisition and clearing, labour, import and export in the investment operation, and social and environmental rehabilitation in the closure phase.
Environmental and Social Safeguards for Responsible Agricultural and Forestry Investments in Lao PDR (2023)
This guide aims to help investors identify the impacts and mitigation measures to minimize the impacts of the proposed investments in the agricultural and forestry sector in Laos. Further, the document provides guides on measures for environmental and social safeguards throughout the investment cycles.
Grievance Redress Mechanisms for Communities in Lao PDR
This handbook aims to help local communities affected by an investment to access a company-based grievance mechanism, official government conflict resolution mechanisms or village-level mediation when they feel that investors violate their rights or have a concern about the investment operation in their regions.
Safeguarding Land Tenure Rights in the Context of Responsible Governance of Investments in Uganda
This manual is intended to provide an overview of the land tenure rights to both the investment affected communities and the investors to ensure that all the different rights on land are recognized and considered.
Promoting responsible agricultural investments in Lao PDR through contractual arrangements
The livelihood of a large part of the world’s population depends directly on access to land and its secure longtermuse. Land access and use have long been organized through informal or traditional tenure rights, but this is changing. In many regions, land use is being transformed by the expansion of large-scale agricultural investments, a development that was triggered by the 2007–08 food, energy, and financial crises.