Este informe utiliza un marco analítico único en su clase que rastrea el desempeño de 117 países a lo largo de 45 años para entender cuáles políticas han tenido éxito y cuáles no.
Este libro analiza las inversiones agrarias a gran escala para fines agrícolas en los países menos desarrollados de África desde una perspectiva jurídica y económica.
Algunos gobiernos africanos están viendo el aumento de polos y corredores de crecimiento agrícola como una forma de atraer la inversión privada para promover la transformación de la agricultura.
Este informe de políticas explora cómo los estándares y directrices mundiales contribuyen a la igualdad de género y el empoderamiento de la mujer, y si se puede hacer algo más a través de estos instrumentos para mejorar la situación de las mujeres en la agricultura.
(English) Venezuela to Pay Us$1 Billion For Expropriating Canadian Mining Company’s Investment
ICSID Tribunal dismisses MFN Clause in WTO GATS as a means of importing Senegal’s consent to arbitration from third party BIT
PCA tribunal deemed acts of Polish Agricultural Property Agency not attributable to Poland
Claimant not considered Investor due to interpretation of “Seat” under Cyprus–Montenegro BIT
Ecuador’s Levy on extraordinary oil profits at a 99% rate has breached Murphy’s legitimate expectations, decides PCA tribunal
Ecuador ordered by PCA tribunal to pay $24 million to Canadian Mining Company
Mr. Kristian Almås and Mr. Geir Almås v. The Republic of Poland, Caso de la CPA No. 2015-13
Bernhard von Pezold y otros vs. Zimbabue, Caso del CIADI No ARB/10/15
Este documento de políticas explora las necesidades financieras de la agricultura en los países en desarrollo y los instrumentos disponibles para abordar estas necesidades.
El acceso al agua es la fuerza impulsora detrás del aumento de la inversión extranjera en tierras agrícolas. Sin embargo, con todo el enfoque en el «acaparamiento de tierras» y la seguridad alimentaria, los problemas del agua han recibido poca atención. Es vital comprender todos los regímenes legales aplicables y los derechos de todas las partes interesadas.
The public began to hunger for information about investment in the agriculture sector when a massive wave of foreign investment in farmland and water was triggered, in 2008, by a confluence of the biofuels boom, global food crisis, sharp spike in oil prices and the financial crisis. Alarming information started to emerge in the media. […]
It is no longer a secret that there is a new wave of foreign investment in farmland, predominantly in Africa. An explosion of media reports and a series of studies by the World Bank, Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), have confirmed the scale and consequences of this new influx of foreign investment. The World Bank report, by far the most comprehensive, found that reported deals amounted to 45 million hectares in 2009 alone.
By Elizabeth Whitsitt 2 October 2009 Mexico has suffered another loss in a series of investor-state arbitral disputes involving its sugar industry. While attempts have been made by Mexico to consolidate similar cases involving its sugar trade, such efforts have been unsuccessful resulting in a number of separate arbitral decisions. Most recently, a tribunal convened […]
By Damon Vis-Dunbar 28 April 2009 An ICSID tribunal has ordered the government of Zimbabwe to compensate a group of Dutch nationals who saw their farms expropriated under Zimbabwe’s controversial land-reform program. The victory is expected to lead other European nationals who lost farms in Zimbabwe to seek compensation under bilateral investment treaties. The thirteen […]
By Fernando Cabrera Diaz and Damon Vis-Dunbar 29 October 2008 A tribunal has been constituted in an arbitration that pits a group of Canadian investors against the government of Costa Rica. The claimants—Vancouver-based Quadrant Pacific Growth Fund L.P. and Conasco Holdings Inc—allege that Costa Rican authorities failed to protect their orange plantations from peasants who […]