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One (Small) Step at a Time

Last week I made my sixth trip to the village of Lugan, 80 miles east of the capital of Anhui province in Central China. The village is unremarkable, except for the fact that it is the site of a small pilot project to formally register farmers’ land rights – this involves mapping farmers’ land parcels and issuing land registration documents to assure their rights to land. In this modest village, we have an ambitious goal - tackling the biggest problem that Chinese farmers face today: the [...]