32. Stresses the need to make major sustainable investments in infrastructure, in the provision of basic services and in agricultural development in South Sudan; insists that agricultural development should have the primary aim of ensuring food security for the population and the diversification of the country’s economy, which may be endangered by concessions of fertile land given to private foreign companies for extracting and exporting large amounts of commodities; highlights, in this connection, the importance of land tenure, lar ...[+++]gely neglected in South Sudan, which has led to disputes over land representing one of the root causes of conflict in the country; calls on the EU to support efforts of land governance and the strengthening of tenure security in the country, while at the same time taking into account local informal arrangements of dispute resolution and recognition of customary tenure;

32. Stresses the need to make major sustainable investments in infrastructure, in the provision of basic services and in agricultural development in South Sudan; insists that agricultural development should have the primary aim of ensuring food security for the population and the diversification of the country’s economy, which may be endangered by concessions of fertile land given to private foreign companies for extracting and exporting large amounts of commodities; highlights, in this connection, the importance of land tenure, lar ...[+++]gely neglected in South Sudan, which has led to disputes over land representing one of the root causes of conflict in the country; calls on the EU to support efforts of land governance and the strengthening of tenure security in the country, while at the same time taking into account local informal arrangements of dispute resolution and recognition of customary tenure;

From that perspective, the Advocate General points out in general terms that the assessment of the respective rights and obligations of the parties to the dispute entails, in particular, a precise and detailed examination of the nature, the subject-matter and the purpose of the various agreements at issue and of the main contractual provisions agreed upon, in the light of both the law applicable to those agreements and industry practice, taking into account all the relevant circumstances and in particular the principle of good faith in the performance of agreements and loyalty, weighting and collaboration obligations incumbent upon the p ...[+++]arties.

Resource and transportation routes have long been points of contention among nations and a leading cause of conflict.