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Show Me Your Palms, Sister

Landesa — Sat, 18 May 2013 00:01:40 +0000

By Swati Bhattacharjee – a chief reporter for the Bengali newspaper “Ananda Bazar Patrika.” This is an excerpt from her original article which was published as an Op-ed in Bengali on 14th April. Two women in West Bengal, India broke …
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Celebrating International Women’s Day: Inspiration from Kenya

Jen Duncan — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:18:50 +0000

My name is Jen Duncan and I’m a senior attorney at Landesa. People often ask me, “I think I understand land rights but what exactly do you guys do at Landesa?”The words that I’m about to share will hopefully provide …
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Bride Kidnapping and Land Rights in Rural Kyrgyzstan

Ailey Kaiser Hughes — Sat, 04 May 2013 00:17:28 +0000

Nazgul, then 19, was refilling cups of tea at the roadside café where she worked when three young men arrived. She served them and returned to the kitchen. When she reemerged, the men grabbed and carried her to their car. …
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The feminization of farming means women’s land rights have never been more important

Landesa — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:54:11 +0000

By Renée Giovarelli and D. Hien Tran This post originally appeared on the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ “Global Food for Thought” blog. Forty years after the green revolution dramatically increased agricultural output in much of the developing world a new revolution …
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Invisible and Voiceless

Landesa — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:50:11 +0000

By Kalpana Sharma After a poor monsoon season, much of India now appears to be headed into a serious drought. In more than 12,000 villages in Maharashtra state, crops have withered. Farmers are struggling. And the summer heat has not …
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A Prosperous New Year for China’s Farmers

Tim Hanstad — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:03:13 +0000

As more than 200 million people board buses, trains, and planes for lunar New Year celebrations in their ancestral homes across China, it is worth pausing to consider what this—the largest annual migration of people on the planet—says about the …
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I’ll Tell You a Story

Tim Hanstad — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:14:26 +0000

Reflections from Sundance: The Power of Data versus Story I’ll Tell You a Story A week spent at the Sundance Film Festival usually includes photo opportunities in your best mountain chic, mingling with celebrities, and getting a sneak peak at …
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Land: A Foundation for Development

Amanda Richardson — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:38:15 +0000

The Council on Foreign Relations Development Channel recently posted an exciting article by Stephanie Hanson of the One Acre Fund on empowering female smallholder farmers. The article highlighted four obstacles women farmers in the developing world face: poor quality seed and no fertilizer, no …
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Balancing Customary Law and Gender Equality in Land Rights: Mmusi and Others v. Ramantele and Another

Aisha Davis — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:52:18 +0000

In a number of African countries, customary inheritance law is on trial. This “sea change” toward gender equality in southern Africa can be seen in Namibia, Lesotho, and most recently, Botswana. “Courts in the region… are stepping up the challenge (of women’s) …
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Spanking, drunk driving and women’s land rights

Tim Hanstad — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:49:10 +0000

What do smoking, spanking, and drunk driving have in common?

Once upon a time they were behaviors accepted by society.

Now they aren’t.

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