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