Conference Agenda

Session
10-12: Large investments: Protecting human rights & environment
Time:
Thursday, 28/Mar/2019:
10:30am - 12:00pm

Session Chair: Ward Anseeuw, International Land Coalition, Italy
 Location: MC C1-200

Presentations
ID: 970 / 10-12: 2
Individual Papers
Topics: Large scale land acquisition: Agriculture, extractives, infrastructure
Keywords: Southeast Asia, responsible investment, agriculture, guidelines

The ASEAN guidelines on promoting responsible investment in food, agriculture and forestry

Sarah Brewin, Francine Picard Mukazi, Carin Smaller

International Institute for Sustainable Development, Switzerland


ID: 1108 / 10-12: 3
Individual Papers
Topics: Large scale land acquisition: Agriculture, extractives, infrastructure
Keywords: agricultural land investment contracts, impact assessments, land tenure, responsible agricultural investment, safeguards

Private law and agricultural development – Improving agricultural land investment contracts and making them consistent with the VGGT and CFS-RAI Principles

Ignacio Tirado1, Neale Bergman1, Margret Vidar2

1UNIDROIT, Italy; 2FAO, Italy


ID: 986 / 10-12: 4
Individual Papers
Topics: Large scale land acquisition: Agriculture, extractives, infrastructure
Keywords: agriculture; governance; investment; law; sustainable development

Agricultural investments under international investment law

Jesse Coleman1, Sarah Brewin2, Thierry Berger3

1Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, United States of America; 2International Institute for Sustainable Development, Canada; 3International Institute for Environment and Development, United Kingdom


ID: 988 / 10-12: 5
Individual Papers
Topics: Land and human rights, gender, indigenous peoples
Keywords: access to justice; human rights; inequality; investor protections; land investments

Undermining justice: The investment treaty regime and affected third parties

Jesse Coleman, Lise Johnson, Kaitlin Cordes

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, United States of America