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Shipra Deo and Robert Mitchell summarize progress toward securing inheritance rights for women in India.

Harnessing the potential of youth through agriculture, a vital sector in Tanzania’s economy that employs as many as three-quarters of

Rapid urbanisation has put farmers’ land increasingly in the crosshairs of developers. Two recent changes to Chinese land laws seek

Modern land reforms remain indispensable to tackle gender inequality in areas where customary discriminatory practices are dominant. Landesa intern Joy

A discriminatory land governance system coupled with gendered social norms result in violence and oppression of women in Jharkhand, India.

Although Indigenous and rural communities are vital to the fight against climate change, in many countries these populations struggle to obtain formal

Gender-responsive land tenure and property rights interventions can be an important catalyst in bringing the kind of revolutionary change necessary

Godfrey Massay highlights some of the international, regional, and national commitments that seek to improve women’s participation in land governing

In Jharkhand, eastern India, women are not entitled to own land and accusations of witchcraft are wielded against them to

2020 was a tough year on many fronts, and land rights were no exception. COVID-19 hindered land rights advocates from