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Corporate Engagement

Goal: Improving outcomes and opportunities for communities and helping companies do business in a trustworthy, transparent, and socially responsible way.
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Sustainable solutions for business and communities.

Conflict over land poses operational and reputational risk for businesses in the context of land-based investments, and companies and investors increasingly recognize the importance of respecting land rights in their work. Strong land rights help build sustainable supply chains and create a more stable, resilient, and productive environment for business. These efforts help companies obtain and maintain social license within the communities where they operate. Moreover, rural communities with secure land rights are better positioned to benefit from economic opportunities that accompany such investments.
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Landesa works directly with companies to undertake land-based investments that are legally and socially sound, navigate land risks and issues in their value chains, facilitate relationships built on trust and transparency, and meet global standards of responsible investment and value chain management—standards we help shape. And because no two investments are alike, our cross-disciplinary team of land tenure and gender specialists, economists, social scientists, attorneys and corporate social responsibility experts provide tailored and customizable guidance and resources designed to fit each context.
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Our work

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Community-Smart Consultation and Consent

The Community-Smart Consultation and Consent Project works to strengthen inclusive and effective natural resource governance by developing, testing, and amplifying tools and resources that improve implementation of good consultation and consent practices for the benefit of all stakeholders, including Indigenous Peoples, local communities, civil society, government, and the private sector.
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LandAssess Tool

The LandAssess Tool is a risk assessment and management framework. It provides a clear and simple set of checklists that generate a report to help companies assess and manage how they respect land rights.
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Responsible Investments in Property and Land (RIPL)

The RIPL Resource Platform translates international guidance and best practices for responsible investments in agriculture into user-friendly guidance for businesses, communities, and governments
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Enabling an ecologically positive and people-centric transition to renewable energy in Asia
Forum for the Future — Landesa is part of the Responsible Energy Initiative (REI), a collaboration between industry and civil society to ensure renewable energy grows in a way that protects labor and human rights, restores ecosystems, includes communities in decision making, and strengthens local economies.
August 26, 2025
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Strides for Land, Gender, and Climate through Nepal Policy Reform
Nepal’s updated climate plan highlights the power of land rights—especially for women—as a foundation for equitable climate action.
July 15, 2025
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Equal Rights, Equal Power
On International Widows’ Day, Landesa’s Dr. Monica Mhoja shares Sarah’s story to spotlight the urgent need for gender-equitable land rights in rural Liberia. Through tools like Amplio Talking Books and support for community land formalization, widows like Sarah are reclaiming their land, their voice, and their future under Liberia’s progressive Land Rights Act.
June 24, 2025

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