Landesa’s Beth Roberts, Gina Alvarado, and Melissa Padilla examine the parallels between reproductive rights, the still-raging fight to affirm equal personhood for women in the United States, and the global movement to advance women’s human rights by securing their rights to land.
The fight for gender equality is a story of bias and prejudices. Twelve women are breaking those biases by starting a collective farm in their village.
A new court ruling in India expands the scope of a daughter's right to inherit land, but the bigger picture remains one of stark gender disparities in land rights.
Securing land rights for women digs down to the root of gender inequality; radically, quietly uprooting it, overturning it, elevating women toward equal legal personhood at household, community and societal levels.
In Tanzania, closing the land policy implementation gap is the key to unlocking women's potential in agriculture.