{"id":7006,"date":"2016-08-10T09:28:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T14:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iisd.org\/itn\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2024-08-09T18:27:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T16:27:05","slug":"policy-brief-4-investment-in-agriculture-investing-in-land-for-water-the-converging-legal-regimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2016\/08\/10\/policy-brief-4-investment-in-agriculture-investing-in-land-for-water-the-converging-legal-regimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Brief #4: Investment in Agriculture, \u201cInvesting in Land for Water: The converging legal regimes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Makane Mo\u00efse Mbengue, Susanna Waltman &amp; Laura Turley, Published by <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips32'>IISD<\/span>, July 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Investment in farmland is motivated in large part by access to water resources, but water-related impacts tend to be an afterthought in the \u201cland grabbing\u201d debates. These same water resources are lifelines for local farmers, pastoralists and other communities, which makes sound legal frameworks all the more necessary. This policy brief presents the different sources of law that are triggered by the use of water for farmland investments, and makes recommendations to help reconcile different legal regimes while ensuring water issues are adequately addressed. Available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/library\/investing-land-water-converging-legal-regimes-policy-brief-4-investment-agriculture\">https:\/\/www.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips33'>IISD<\/span>.org\/library\/investing-land-water-converging-legal-regimes-policy-brief-4-investment-agriculture<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips32','International Institute for Sustainable Development<!--more-->'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips33','Institut international du d\u00e9veloppement durable'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips34','Instituto Internacional para el Desarrollo Sostenible'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips114','Sistema de Tribunales de Inversiones'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips118','Union europ\u00e9enne'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips119','Uni\u00f3n Europea'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Makane Mo\u00efse Mbengue, Susanna Waltman &amp; Laura Turley, Published by <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips32'>IISD<\/span>, July 2016 Investment in farmland is motivated in large part by access to water resources, but water-related impacts [&hellip;]<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips32','International Institute for Sustainable Development<!--more-->'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips33','Institut international du d\u00e9veloppement durable'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips34','Instituto Internacional para el Desarrollo Sostenible'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips118','Union europ\u00e9enne'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips119','Uni\u00f3n Europea'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}