News Archive

Wall Street Journal Cites Landesa Research

October 19, 2012 — The Wall Street Journal references Landesa in the article, “China Faces Tough Choice on Growth” regarding compensation farmers receive from their land being expropriated. The article was also the lead story in the WSJ China edition, elevating the importance of land rights in China.
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Issue Brief: Women’s Secure Rights to Land

October 17, 2012 — Women make up 43% of the agricultural labor force in developing countries, yet many don’t have secure rights to the land they farm. Our new issue brief illustrates the benefits of secure rights to land for women and their households, the barriers they face, and recommendations for strengthening those land rights.
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Communication technology broadcasts land rights message across West Bengal

October 9, 2012 — Landesa’s team in West Bengal, India, is now using satellite communication technology to train officials who work in poor and remote areas on the front lines of India’s battle against poverty.
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Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights Celebrates its Third Anniversary

October 1, 2012 — This month marks the third anniversary of Landesa’s Center for Women’s Land Rights. Here’s a look at past, present and future programs and their impact.
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1-minute video shows the impact of micro-plots

September 26, 2012 — Since 2007, Landesa has partnered with state governments in India to help more than 200,000 families receive secure rights to micro-plots — land parcels the size of a tennis court that can help provide a way out for families in India who have been stuck for generations within the poverty cycle.
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Landesa’s Roy Prosterman featured in the New York Times

September 25, 2012– Shivani Vora interviews founder Roy Prosterman about his interest in land rights, the challenges of working in India and why he thinks his model works.
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The Global Land Grab in the Guardian

September 11, 2012 — As demand for biofuels and pressure to feed the world’s population increases, multisector collaboration will be crucial to ensuring local farmers hold on to their land. Leon Kaye explores the pitfalls of land grabs by investors and governments and the impact on farmers.
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Infographic: Women and land

In light of evidence that secure rights to land for women can increase agricultural productivity and confer other household benefits, Landesa created this new infographic to illustrate the what additional gains could be made if women had equal access to one of the most important assets to agricultural households: land.
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Landesa featured in Fast Company

July 13, 2012 — Ariel Schwartz wrote a feature story about the success of Landesa’s partnership with the state government of West Bengal in India. The article illustrates an innovative microplot program that is transforming villages throughout rural India.
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Op-Ed by Landesa in the New York Times calling for secure land rights in Myanmar

JUNE 13, 2012 — In today’s New York Times, Landesa founder, Roy Prosterman, and Landesa senior attorney, Darryl Vhugen, authored an editorial about how Myanmar can lay the foundation for sustained economic progress by providing legal rights to land for its citizens – especially its millions of smallholder farmers.
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