Land Governance, Investment Law, Agriculture, and the Rights of Local Populations

This chapter introduces the third part of the volume, which deals with the conundrum of the regulation of investments in land and agriculture and how this relates to the protection of human rights. The chapter begins with a definition of land grabbing and an overview of the regulatory branches that overlap in the field of agricultural investment. It then presents the most recent soft law and jurisprudential development in the protection of the land rights of indigenous peoples and other rural communities.