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Better safeguards from governments –providing more than strong land tenure

Biofuels and poor people’s access to land Sonja Vermeulen International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) International Land Coalition (ILC). Better safeguards from governments –providing more than strong land tenure

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Better safeguards from governments –providing more than strong land tenure

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  1. Biofuels and poor people’s access to landSonja VermeulenInternational Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) International Land Coalition (ILC)

  2. Better safeguards from governments –providing more than strong land tenure More imaginative solutions from small and large businesses (with government incentives)

  3. Why biofuels? 4 policy goals: Not all biofuels industries will deliver all 4 goals

  4. Opportunities: • More diverse and secure livelihoods • Broader development benefits (including local energy)

  5. Threats: • Land concentration • Loss of land & resources among poor

  6. Threats Safeguards Rural development goals Opportunities Imaginative models

  7. Safeguards • For people’s welfare • But also for people’s rights and choices

  8. Safeguards • Protection of local food systems • Requirements for local consultation and negotiation • Mechanisms for appeal, arbitration and review • Clearer definitions of under-utilised, marginal and degraded lands • Strengthening of access to the law • Integrated setting of social standards

  9. Imaginative models • For working with farmers and landholders • But also for greater shares in the value chain

  10. Imaginative models …moving away from one-off compensation towards long-term benefit-sharing… • Land lease arrangements • Collective land use • Market-rate rental • Contract farming • Purchase agreements • Outgrower schemes • Joint equity models • Land as equity • Shares in processing Warning: None of these areperfect!

  11. Roles for government Policy frameworks… Local services… Financial incentives… Underwriting… Standard setting… Brokerage… R&D… www.iied.org

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