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Land Tenure: A Cross-Cutting Solution for Poverty, Climate Change, and Women’s Rights

If we want to improve lives and alleviate poverty, achieve food security globally, and guarantee human rights and full dignity
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The Dobbs Decision Reminds Us Feminism Must Be Global and Intersectional

Landesa’s Beth Roberts, Gina Alvarado, and Melissa Padilla examine the parallels between reproductive rights, the still-raging fight to affirm equal
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Despite courts, the plot is against daughters

A new court ruling in India expands the scope of a daughter’s right to inherit land, but the bigger picture
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We Cannot Be Equal Until We Are People

Securing land rights for women digs down to the root of gender inequality; radically, quietly uprooting it, overturning it, elevating
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Securing land rights is key to fulfilling the COP 26 pact

For national governments pursuing their climate commitments, securing land tenure for their rural populations would lay the foundation for effective,
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Ending land tenure system discrimination

In Tanzania, closing the land policy implementation gap is the key to unlocking women’s potential in agriculture.
In the foreground, a hand holding a sign that says "CLIMATE ACTION NOW." In the background, a climate strike in Toronto.

We Must Listen to Women to Tackle Our Changing Climate

Women are underrepresented in climate leadership but hold the solutions for both people and planet.
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The Foundation for Women’s Empowerment, Global Food Security and the Eradication of Poverty Is Beneath Our Feet

Beth Roberts explores why land is central to the themes of Rural Women’s Day (Oct. 15), World Food Day (Oct.
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The Road to Resilience in a Post-COVID World: Stronger Land Rights for Women

Gender-responsive land tenure and property rights interventions can be an important catalyst in bringing the kind of revolutionary change necessary
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“Land rights are the foundation that enables the realization of all the other Sustainable Development Goals”

Iniciativa Tierra y ODS (Land and SDG Initiative) spoke with Diana Fletschner about the land-related SDG commitments, what has been
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