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GIRLS’ GLOBE — In this conversation with Girls’ Globe, Dr. Monica Mhoja shares examples of how women in Tanzania are investing in smart agriculture and more land. She speaks about how Stand for Her Land is organizing across countries and at the grassroots level to advocate and create opportunities for change.

IDR ONLINE — Landesa’s Shipra Deo explains how the conversation around land rights is incomplete without giving due consideration to dignity. “How [women] use the land, whether for livelihood or survival, is closely interlinked to an individual’s existence and dignity.”

Landesa research was quoted in an article about centering women in climate decision making and shifting discriminatory norms that hinder women from accessing land.

Read about women’s land rights, food security, and climate change in an interview with Landesa’s S4HL Global Advocacy Director Esther Wanjiku Mwaura Muiru and former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman.

In Bangladesh’s Sundarbans, life revolves around coastal mangrove forests. But as climate change effects worsen, livelihoods are under threat. Read about what global actors at COP27 can do amid the deepening climate crisis.

If we want to improve lives and alleviate poverty, achieve food security globally, and guarantee human rights and full dignity for all, we must invest in land rights for women.

Landesa Global Advocacy Director Esther Mwaura-Muiru writes that if we want to improve lives and alleviate poverty, achieve food security globally, and guarantee human rights and full dignity for all, we must invest in land rights for women.

The fight for gender equality is a story of bias and prejudices. Twelve women are breaking those biases by starting a collective farm in their village.

Nairobi, 8 March 2022— Leaders and campaigners from across the world today launched Stand for Her Land in Africa, a global advocacy campaign for women’s land rights. The launch, on International Women’s Day, will link African grassroots organizations with national actors and international champions. Already, nearly 100 groups in Uganda, Senegal, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and worldwide are mobilizing to Stand for Her Land. 

Ms. Magazine interviewed Beth Roberts and Rachel McMonagle on the gendered aspects of climate change, the significance of women’s land rights to help meet mitigation and adaptation goals, and their reflections on an imperfect COP26.