Land-Based Investments in Global Supply Chains and the Protection of Vulnerable Groups

* What are the risks of large-scale land acquisitions for communal land rights?
* What are the particular risks of large-scale land acquisitions for indigenous people and how could these be mitigated?
* What is the relationship between the risks of large-scale land acquisitions and global (agricultural) supply chains?
* What lessons can be learned for the design of corporate due diligence laws and which concomitant development policy measures should be taken?

With data from a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural West Kalimantan, Indonesia, the research project assesses the relationship between large-scale land acquisitions and mental health and well-being. Evidence of non-material impacts of land-based investments is scarce. The research project will apply quasi-experimental approaches and methods from behavioral economics.
To shed light on the impacts of land investments on communal land rights we will exploit freely available data with quantitative methods.
The second part of the project focuses on the relationship between land-based investments and global supply chains. Apart from a synthesis of the existing literature we will conceptualise this relationship and their risk factors and apply this in quantitative analysis of secondary data. Among the goals of this part is to assess the data availability and needs to investigate this link.