Conference Agenda
The conference agenda provides an overview and details of sessions. In order to view sessions on a specific day or for a certain room, please select an appropriate date or room link. You may also select a session to explore available abstracts and download papers and presentations.
|
|
|
Session Overview |
| Session | ||
14-06: The East African community model contract for farmland investments: ensuring responsible investment in land in east africa.
| ||
    | ||
The East African community model contract for farmland investments: ensuring responsible investment in land in east africa. 1East African Community - EAC; 2International Institute for Sustainable Development - IISD, Mali Large-scale land based investment in arable land has been rendered unpopular by a range of international NGOs and social movements who considered them as ‘land grabbing. True, the negative effect of such investment -that heightened local and national food security; deprives local people of their livelihoods and especially women- cannot be underestimated. But on another hand, land-based investments is seen for many host governments as a way to tackle poverty and enhance development in terms of providing the necessary capital and technological know-how for modernising the agricultural sector and particularly in escalating agribusiness and agro-industrialisation. The question then relies on how to conciliate these two contradictions? How to maximize the potential gain of foreign land investment while reducing its risks? \
| ||
