Landesa Landesa partners with governments and local NGOs to ensure the world’s poorest families have secure land rights, which develops sustainable economic growth and improves education, nutrition, and conservation

January 23, 2012 — Landesa was selected as one of the 100 best NGOs in the world, ranked by the Global Journal. Landesa is honored to be ranked #34 among a list of organizations that are making a transformative difference in the world, including several others from the “corridor of compassion” in the Pacific Northwest – including PATH (#6), and Mercy Corps (#11).
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Renee Giovarelli, executive director of the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights, writes in the Guardian about the “South Asian Enigma” and the link between women’s status and child malnutrition.
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The Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights’ executive director, Renée Giovarelli, and director Elisa Scalise, authored the chapter Promoting equity in economic rights: the case of gender and land rights in the new book, Making Equal Rights Real.
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December 28, 2011 — View this photo essay slideshow that depicts what having secure land rights can do for a farming family in Rwanda, three years since receiving a title to their land. Photographs by Deborah Espinosa.
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DECEMBER 20, 2011 – In its 2011 Fiscal Year Annual Report, Landesa reports that its partnerships in India and China over the last year helped more than 3.4 million farming families receive secure rights to their land, providing these families with …
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DECEMBER 8, 2011 — Landesa announces the creation of its Women’s Land Rights Visiting Professionals Program to promote and support a global network of qualified professionals committed to strengthening women’s land rights.
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DECEMBER 1, 2011 — NPR News aired a story about Landesa and its partners in India who are helping poor rural families gain legal title to their own piece of land. Corey Flintoff reports from the Indian state of Odisha.
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NOVEMBER 29, 2011 — Landesa is one of four organizations who has received a 2012 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. The award is given to social entrepreneurs and their organizations who not only have an innovative model for solving some of the world’s biggest social challenges, but who are, as the Skoll Foundation puts it, at an inflection point of impact potential.
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OCTOBER 12 — A delegation of China’s Ministry of Land and Resources visited Landesa’s global headquarters in Seattle, WA and attended training sessions taught by Landesa’s staff, US officials, and UW professors covering a variety of topics ranging from farmland preservation and land registration to rural-urban integration.
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OCTOBER 12, 2011 — In a new Wall Street Journal op-ed, our CEO Tim Hanstad shows both the critical role of land rights in China’s development and Landesa’s role in working closely with China’s  leadership to help shape ongoing reforms. …
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