Oxfam's experience with the private sector in regard to land
Channel: Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
Date: 2014-05-20

Duncan Pruett and Chris Jochnick present Oxfam's experience with the private sector in regard to land. While Oxfam's international policy and advocacy work specifically in relation to land has covered a number of issues since it started in mid-2010, it has achieved some important public commitments on the part of the private sector in 2012 and 2013, including the extensive "zero-tolerance for land grabs" commitment by the Coca-Cola Company in late 2013. Some commitments made by companies exceed those currently in the CFS rai draft, and those agreed in the CFS's Voluntary Guidelines on Land. Oxfam believes its experiences and achievements provide important insights into how change can be achieved within the private sector, and the role that critical policy advocacy can play in this. Going forward, there is a need for these achievements to be consolidated, and potential for some of these approaches to be extended wider, to other sectors, and into the realm of public policy at country level.
The briefing covered:

Achievements of Oxfam's policy/advocacy work with the private sector with regard to land.

Reflections on outcomes: how these achievements contribute to internationally agreed objectives, and benefit communities and companies.

Reflections on challenges we face going forward, and areas for follow up in promoting accountability internationally on land.