Following the end of the civil war in Sierra Leone in 2002, over a decade of unregulated land acquisitions by international agribusiness established a series of large-scale concessions on community-owned land, without the free prior and informed consent of the families whose land was being used. The resulting restrictions to existing land rights, livelihoods and land use systems led to widespread conflicts with companies and social conflicts within local communities. The AIAP process makes investment more responsible in that legitimate landowner’s can negotiate directly with companies and sign agreements with them, while the government(MAF) simply signs an MoU drawn up between the parties as a witness..