Making Agricultural Investments Work for Land Users & Communities

Authors

Kaitlin Y. Cordes, Columbia Law School, Columbia Center on Sustainable DevelopmentFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-2014

Abstract

Earlier this year, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made an unexpected commitment related to foreign investment in land and community land rights. In a meeting with communities who had raised concerns regarding a British company’s attempts to expand its palm oil production onto their customary land, the President effectively told those communities that they would have the right to say yes or no to further expansion, noting that the company could expand only with the affected communities’ approval.

Disciplines

Agriculture Law | Environmental Law | International Law | Land Use Law | Law | Securities Law

Recommended Citation

Kaitlin Y. Cordes, Making Agricultural Investments Work for Land Users & Communities, Focus on Land in Africa, December 2014 (2014).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sustainable_investment_staffpubs/136