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Impact of Licensed Cultivators Act in Andhra Pradesh (India)

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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.

Ensuring and Protecting the Land Leasing Right of Poor Women in India

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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.

A Systems Approach for Providing Legal Aid for Land

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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.

The Fog of Entitlement: Women and Land in India

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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.

Al Jazeera publishes Landesa editorial on malnutrition in India

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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.