All of the phases have resources and tools to help you translate best practices to the specific needs, risks, and opportunities of your agricultural investment project.
Business Enterprise Supporting Materials
All Supporting Materials
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Phase 1
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LandAssess Tool
The LandAssess Tool was created as part of Landesa’s C2P Land Project in partnership with Illovo Sugar Africa, and funded by DFID’s LEGEND Challenge Fund. The LandAssess Tool is a series of checklists that allow companies to manage efforts to comply with international standards and best practices. This includes measuring progress made against each international standard and best practice, assigning risk according to progress, detailing work plans and timelines the company will follow to reach compliance, and designating responsibilities to both internal and external actors by task.
You can download the English version of the tool below. You can also navigate to the tool's resource page, where you can download the tool in Kiswahili and Portuguese and access a user guide and training video.
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Sample Business Enterprise Policies
This resource provides examples of business enterprise policies that tend to promote socially responsible investing and work toward ensuring the equitable sharing of investment benefits by women and men in affected communities.
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Why Land Matters: Communicating Your New Land Commitment
The purpose of this slide deck is to enable business leaders who have recently implemented a new corporate commitment on land rights to communicate the new policy, its rationale, and subsequent implementation steps.
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Stakeholder Mapping Template
This resource can be used to map the various stakeholders that will be involved in or affected by a land-based investment.
Phase 2
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Site-Specific Questionnaire
Use this questionnaire alongside the guidebook to support due diligence on potential investment sites.
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Community Consultation Checklist
Use this checklist alongside the guidebook to support productive, meaningful and participatory consultations with community leaders and communities.
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Community Capacity Assessment
This resource provides a template for gathering information on individual and collective weaknesses and strengths across community groups: a community capacity assessment targeting characteristics and skills that are considered necessary for effective community involvement throughout the investment process.
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Land Rights Assessment Tool Kit
This tool kit provides guidance on supplementing an environmental and social impact assessment with a deeper assessment of impacts to land rights, uses and livelihoods.
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Risk Mitigation Analysis
Use this resource to analyze and mitigate potential risks created by a prospective investment.
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Outgrower Best Practices Literature Review
The external resources summarized here provide guidance and discuss best practices for establishing outgrower arrangements as a method of compensation or alternative to outright land purchase or lease.
Phase 3
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Template for LOI/MOU
This is a template for creating a letter of intent or memorandum of understanding between the business and the community.
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Key Contract Elements
This resource provides guidance on the terms and elements that should be contained within the Letter of Intent or Memorandum of Understanding and final contract between the company and community, as well as within any lease agreement between the business enterprise and the government.
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Final Contract Checklist
This checklist should be used when preparing the final contract.
Phase 4
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Designing a Stakeholder Engagement Plan
This resource provides a template for designing a strategy for ongoing community engagement and two checklists for evaluating the community engagement plan based on established standards for stakeholder communication.