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Session Overview

Session

03-10: Reducing the Risks of Agribusiness Investment

Time:

Tuesday, 21/Mar/2017:

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Session Chair: Marc Levy, Earth Institute, Columbia University, United States of America

Location: MC 7-100

Presentations

ID: 592 / 03-10: 1
Individual Papers
Oral Presentation
Topics: Land for infrastructure, investment, disaster risk reduction

Advocating for Safeguards in Governing Land for Investment: Ethiopia, Mozambique, Uganda, and Malawi

Juliana Nnoko Mewanu, Maria Burnett, Felix Horne, Katharina Rall, Nisha Varia, Janet Walsh

Human Rights Watch

ID: 228 / 03-10: 2
Individual Papers
Oral Presentation
Topics: Land for infrastructure, investment, disaster risk reduction
Keywords: Large-scale land acquisitions; investments, VGGT, safeguards, Uganda

Responsible Large-Scale Land Investments in Uganda: Current Application and Potential Scope of International Safeguards

Tobias Vorlaufer¹, Felix Schilling², Michael Kirk¹, Christian Graefen²

¹University of Marburg, Germany; ²Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

ID: 431 / 03-10: 3
Individual Papers
Oral Presentation
Topics: Land for infrastructure, investment, disaster risk reduction
Keywords: Communities, consent, consultation, contracts, negotiations

Mechanisms for Consultation and Free, Prior and Informed Consent in the Negotiation of Land Contracts

Sam Szoke-Burke, Kaitlin Cordes

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, United States of America

ID: 164 / 03-10: 4
Individual Papers
Oral Presentation
Topics: Land for infrastructure, investment, disaster risk reduction
Keywords: conflict, disputes, risk, investment, agribusiness

Pre-existing Community Land Disputes In Private Sector Investments and Development Interventions

Karol Boudreaux¹, Darryl Vhugen^1,2, Nicole Walter¹

¹The Cloudburst Group, United States of America; ²Independent Consultant

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