Land Investors Should “Play Fair”
Companies that invest in land and resources in emerging economies risk financial and public relations disasters if local inhabitants feel they are getting ripped off, consultants warned in a report last week. The report was released by a group known as the Munden Project … The report was titled “the Financial Risks of Insecure Land Tenure: An Investment View”. Projects go wrong when local people feel they have not been adequately compensated and are being deprived of their land, jobs, water and forest. …
