LANDex - Global Land Governance Index

Effective Actions Against Land Grabbing

9B.1 Cases where attempted land rights violations were challenged

Calculation Based on Existing Data

This indicator looks at the presence of conflict in all large-scale land acquisitions (LSLA) documented since the year 2000.

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This is a negative indicator, meaning that the highest score (100) represents the least favorable situation, indicating the highest possible presence of conflict and challenges in cases of large-scale land acquisitions.

For this indicator (and 9C), we have defined LSLA according to the definition used by partner initiative Land Matrix: the acquisition of any tract of land larger than 200 hectares that meets each of the following criteria:

Entails the transfer of rights to use, control or own land through sale, lease or concession.
Signed sometime since the year 2000, when the annualized value of the FAO Real Food Price Index was at its lowest.
Entails the conversion of land from local community use or from important ecosystem-service provision to commercial production.

For this indicator, you will need two data points:

Total number of large-scale land acquisitions (intended, failed or concluded) from the year 2000 until the present date.
Total number of large-scale land acquisitions where conflict was present (i.e. of the total number above, how many included conflict).

For many countries, data for this indicator will be available through Land Matrix. We recommend using this site as a starting point, though any source of data can be used.

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Basic Information

What country does this data pertain to?*

What email address can you be contacted at?*

What is your name?

Would you like your name to be kept anonymous?

Who are you completing this form for?*

Myself

Someone else

What organisation are you affiliated with?

Is this organisation a people's organisation?*

Yes

What is a people's organisation?

People's organisations are defined as organisations that directly represent people depending upon land and are accountable to them. The constituency the organization represents are indigenous peoples, youth, women, pastoralists, rural workers, rural community members, fishers, landless, forest dwellers and users, peasants and hunter gatherers , afro descendants, quilombolas, adivasi and dalit. NGOs that work closely with people depending upon land but do not represent them are not People's Organisations.

Where is the organisation located?

What sector does your organisation work in?

Respondents should choose the sector that best reflects their affiliation. If no sector presented accurately describes the respondent's affiliation, the Other option should be selected.

While non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can be considered within the broader sector of civil society organizations (CSOs), we provide both options to reflect different understandings of these terms in diverse contexts. The UNDP defines CSOs as "voluntary organizations with governance and direction coming from citizens or constituency members, without significant government-controlled participation or representation," and NGOs "as a subset of CSOs involved in development cooperation." Organizations that have chosen to identify as NGOs in LANDex include the Mongolian Land Management Association (MLMA), the Association of Senegalese Lawyers (AJS) and the Peruvian Center for Social Studies (CEPES). Organizations that have identified as CSOs in LANDex include the Kyrgyz Association of Forest and Land Users, the Citizen Observatory in Chile and the Center for Environment and Development (CED) in Cameroon.

What is your gender?

What is your age?

Block 1: Large-scale land acquisitions since the year 2000

Block 1/2

Methodology: LANDex and Land Matrix

LANDex uses the following filters applied to Land Matrix data for LSLAs. Complementary or alternative data that meets equivalent criteria can be used.

Deal scope = transnational
Size greater than 200 hectares
Year = unknown or greater than 2000
Exclude mining
Exclude oil and gas extraction
Exclude forestry concessions
Exclude pure contract farming

Conflict can be indicated in multiple fields within Land Matrix data, including those reflecting consultations with communities, comments by communities or displacement. For purposes of LANDex, we only consider a case to "include conflict" if there is information available that explicitly indicates conflict was present. Likewise, information indicating an absence of conflict – stating no conflict was present – means that a deal "does not include" conflict for the purposes of LANDex, but is not an authoritative indication of whether or not conflict was present.

Q1: Total number of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLA) recorded in the country – intended, concluded and failed – since the year 2000

Source, year

Q2: Number of large-scale land acquisitions since the year 2000 that included some information about the presence or absence of conflict

Block 2: Number of LSLA since the year 2000 that included conflict

Block 2/2

Methodology: LANDex and Land Matrix

LANDex uses the following filters applied to Land Matrix data for LSLAs. Complementary or alternative data that meets equivalent criteria can be used.

Deal scope = transnational
Size greater than 200 hectares
Year = unknown or greater than 2000
Exclude mining
Exclude oil and gas extraction
Exclude forestry concessions
Exclude pure contract farming

Q1: The total number of LSLA since the year 2000 – intended, concluded and failed – that included conflict

Source, year