Now, Free Legal Aid To Farmers, Especially Women Farmers, In Andhra Pradesh
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LawfulIndia.com posted an article about the importance of legal aid to women farmers and mentions Landesa’s work in Andhra Pradesh.
This report explains how the Andhra Pradesh Licensed Cultivators’ Act has the potential to improve farm productivity as well as the socio-economic condition of farmers. It also recommends legal amendments to improve the effectiveness of the act.
It was a deal struck almost 40 years ago by a poor, illiterate farmer, driven by desperation after a drought wiped out his crops and left his family close to starvation.
Photo of the week: Women’s Land Rights in Andhra Pradesh, India
Partnerships Progress in Andhra Pradesh Poor rural families in Andhra Pradesh, India are …
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Lease farming by landless women in Kerala and Andhra Pradesh shows a pathway for reducing their poverty and enabling upward social mobility. However, agricultural tenancy laws in most states in India either prohibit or restrict land leasing, making tenancy a concealed and less secure arrangement.
This paper explains legal education and assistance models in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, which offer practical solutions for resolving land problems and securing land right for the rural poor across India. This report also suggests a systems approach for resolving the land problems of the poor in India.
Based on quantitative insights gained from interviews of 504 women in 19 villages, in two states of India, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar (Landesa & UN Women, 2012), this paper explores the structure of constraints to women’s rights to land.
May 11, 2012 — Landesa’s program directors in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha write on a possible solution to rampant malnutrition in the country. One in every three malnourished children in the world live in India. The authors make the case that putting land in the hands of women could be a solution.