Agrarian Justice | Licensed to Grab
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This regressive process hinders progress towards democratic land access and control and the reversal of abusive land deals.
Over the past two decades, the number of international investment treaties has expanded dramatically. This paper explores the consequences of these treaties for the attainment of land and food sovereignty, demonstrating how the global investment regime has countered grassroots-led, human rights-based forms of land governance by shifting the balance in favour of large-scale (agro)industrial actors.
Specifically the investor-state dispute settlement (#ISDS) clause present in many of these treaties give investors far-reaching protection, curtailing, or threatening to curtail, governments’ ability to regulate for progressive agrarian and agricultural policies. As a consequence the notion of land as a commodity is reinforced, hindering achievement of democratic land access and control and the reversal of abusive land deals.
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