Central Asia’s poorest farmers know the value of their land
08 March 2023
Farmland and pastures across Central Asia are far less productive after decades of monocropping
rural areas
Latest News
India's women water warriors transform parched lands
30 June 2022
Chhatarpur (India) – As the monsoon storms bear down on India, a dedicated group of women hope that after years of backbreaking labour, water shortages will no longer leave their village high and dry.
China’s Push to Advance Rural Revitalization
12 February 2022
Xi is promoting a new vision to tackle long-standing problems like the rural-urban divide, food security, and poverty.
Blogs
Why investing in women’s land rights helps overall gender equality
04 August 2020
Supporting women’s ability to own, manage and control land will help accelerate gender equality globally
It is depressing, discouraging, infuriating – pick your word – to see the scale and scope of abuse and discrimination aimed at women and girls worldwide.
Demystifying Data: Data That Empowers
08 March 2019
A data story from women in a semiarid region of Brazil
*This story was written by the following women: Ducicleide Maria da Silva, Gigliola Silva Araújo, Ianka Sayonara da Silva, Josefa Ferreira da Silva, Maria do Carmo da Conceição Carvalho, Maria Karoline Policarpo Silva, Manuella Donato, Mariana de Albuquerque Vilarim and Thalya Carla Vieira de Lima and Patricia Maria Chaves . It was translated by Sonia Jay Wright.*
From Norway to India: the Importance of Land Rights to Increasing Opportunity and Prosperity
23 February 2018
By Tim Hanstad, Co-Founder & Senior Advisor, Landesa
This is the first blog in a series of two that are based on a keynote address made at the 2018 India Land Development Conference.
I have been working on issues of land rights for more than 31 years in more than 22 countries, but no country has captured my attention, focus and heart more than India.
Discussions
Online Discussion: Land Rights Implications of COVID-19
Closed
02 June 2020 to 23 June 2020
Alexandre Corriveau-Bourque
Yuliya Panfil
Ms. Karol Boudreaux
Neil Sorensen
Miss Chantal Wieckardt
Landesa - Rural Development Institute
Land Portal Foundation
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
New America
Environmental Peacebuilding
LANDac
Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility
Cadasta Foundation
Events
Migration, Displacement, and De-urbanization in the Context of COVID-19
28 May 2020
Online
Join us for the Land Rights and COVID-19 webinar and discussion series, which is presented by Land Portal, Landesa, the Global Protection Cluster HLP AOR and GIZ, with organizing support from Environmental Peacebuilding Association, LANDac, New America and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID).
New America
Landesa - Rural Development Institute
Land Portal Foundation
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Environmental Peacebuilding
Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility
LANDac
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