For years Ranimma, her husband and three daughters were like leaves blown in the wind
Meet the women, men, and families around the world who have benefited from access to stronger land rights.
During Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, Marie lost her husband. But thanks to Landesa’s work in Rwanda, she didn’t lose her land
For decades, Cao Fenping and his wife farmed their tiny plot of land with little security. As was standard throughout China, they had no title and knew that village leaders could and would reallocate farmers’ plots regularly
Mr. Liu is part of the agricultural revolution in China that has sparked the largest, most successful, poverty reduction program in the history of the world…
When her husband, a truck driver, would travel for work, there was often no food or money in the house. “I would borrow some money from relatives and friends to buy food,”
But no matter how many hours they toiled in others’ fields, they never earned enough to buy three proper meals a day for themselves and their children
A plot of land about twice the size of a tennis court saved Poonam Barman’s future. The 14-year-old girl and her family were hungry, and landless.
Children here did not attend school, but worked alongside their parents in landowners’ fields. When those fields were fallow, the hamlet’s men left their families to look for work in the cities
Shakti beams with pride as she holds her patta – the title to her land. Before she became a landowner, she was among the poorest of the poor
In Neilu village in China’s Fujian Province, Lin Lianhua and her husband, Su Yuan, spent their lives farming a small piece of land. It was a hard life, one of physical exhaustion and a meager income…