For investments to provide local benefits, mechanisms need to be in place ensuring technical and economic viability, consistency with local land use plans and taxation regimes, and transfers of assets from nonviable projects. This should also include the scope for investment and associated land governance issues in countries’ broader development strategies that identify areas or crops where investment can provide the highest benefits based on agro-ecological endowments and existing land use intensity. This information can then be used to establish parameters and minimum criteria for investor applications. This exercise could be combined with mapping and documenting existing rights on a systematic basis, as well as educating local populations on.
