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Countries and Regions: India
Larger Homestead Plots as Land Reform? International Experience and Analysis from India
2002
A study published in the Economic and Political Weekly on the benefits of amply-sized homestead and garden plots, based on experiments in several countries, and replicated successfully in the southern state of Karnataka in India. The study was conducted by Landesa’s partner in India (the Rural Development Institute), supported by the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, and the National Institute of Rural Development. | Download PDF
Increasing Women’s Property Ownership through Rural Housing Programmes in India
2006
A study by the The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and Landesa’s partner in India, the Rural Development Institute, to examine the effectiveness of laws in the state of Karnataka in empowering women with property titles in their names. | Download PDF
Women’s Land Rights in West Bengal: A Field Study
2002
This report summarizes findings on women’s access to land ownership in West Bengal, India based on three rounds of research conducted in 2001 and 2002. It provides recommendations for changes in government policy and law to increase the number of women landowners and to strengthen the security of women’s access to land owned by their households. | download PDF
Women’s Inheritance Rights to Land and Property in South Asia
2009
This study was undertaken by the Rural Development Institute for the World Justice Project. The study reviews the formal and customary laws and practices governing the rights of women to inherit land in six South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). The study includes an analysis of existing laws and customs and their impact on inheritance and land rights in all six countries. It also provides recommendations for how to design interventions that can attempt to improve women’s inheritance rights. | download PDF
Women’s Access and Rights to Land in Karnataka
2002
An analysis of women’s land rights in Karnataka, India based on a 400 household survey and rapid rural appraisal interviews with rural women and NGO representatives. The report especially concentrates on describing the insecurity and vulnerability of women’s access to land at the time of divorce, separation, and widowhood. It closes by providing recommendations for enhancing rural women’s land rights. | download PDF
West Bengal’s Bargadars and Land Ownership
A 2004 Artitcle written by Landesa staff and published in Economic and Political Weekly
The UN’s Empty Plan for Poverty
An Article from the Far Eastern Economic Review by Roy Prosterman | download PDF
Smart Bombs, So Why Not Smart Aid?
A 2001 Article from BusinessWeek | download PDF
Small is Not Necessarily Bad
A 2003 Article by Landesa Staff in The Telegraph | download PDF
Securing Our Future
Listing of think tanks and non-profits that can act as smart advisors for policy makers | download PDF
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