Lorenzo Cotula, PhDPrincipal Researcher & Team Leader – Legal Tools
Natural Resources Group
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Legal Tools for Citizen Empowerment
Strengthening local rights and voices in natural resource investments
‘Agricultural investment’, or ‘land grabbing’?
Natural resource investments and the law
Strengthen local rights and voices in natural resource investments in low and middle-income countries
Supporting existing innovation in using law for empowerment – by civil society, social movements, villagers
Through generative evidence, testing tools, facilitating lesson sharing
1) Analysis to promote public scrutiny and influence policy
2) Strengthen capacity to exercise rights
http://bit.ly/investmentchains
Animation: Promoting accountability in investment chains
3) Int’l lesson sharing for scaling impacts
Value of lesson sharing
Diverse contexts and approaches, recurring challenges
Eg agency, sustainability, scalability
Law and politics
Local-to-global action
www.iied.org/legal-tools
