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Partner Guest Blog: Why Land Rights Should Be on the Rio+20 Agenda
This article was authored by Peter Veit and Janet Ranganathan of Landesa partner, World Resources Institute (WRI), and was originally posted
Poor Land Tenure: A Key Component to Why Nations Fail
This article was originally posted on The Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars’ New Security Beat blog The murder of five
Next steps to put voluntary guidelines into action to address the global land rush
Since 2008, a global land rush—sparked initially by a dramatic rise in global food prices and now driven by a
Women’s land rights and nutrition
While there is no silver bullet to solve global hunger, discussion at the Global Conference of Women in Agriculture (GCWA),
Growing profits – and a greener planet
While many people are aware that agriculture is highly susceptible to the effects of climate change, few know that agricultural
Women’s Access to Legal Information
National governments across the world continue the slow march toward legislating gender equality, but in countries with gendered patterns of
Growing Tomorrow’s Leaders, One Land Title at a Time
It should be simple. A country ensures free education for all children, and everyone benefits. But we all know it’s
Uprooting Families to Save Trees
Much has been written about the global land rush –the trend in which investors, eager to establish plantations to produce
A Commitment for Change: Partnering with Governments to Scale What Works
Too often at the Clinton Global Initiative we hear how companies and NGOs are partnering to fix a problem. That
The Impact of the Global Land Rush on Women
Around the world, there has been a notable increase in the demand for land—particularly agricultural land—resulting in a ‘global land
