For the first time, women in Kenya are helping to settle land disputes …
“Indigenous women’s land rights: case studies from Africa” is a chapter published by Minority Rights Group in their publication, State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2012. The chapter was written by Elisa Scalise, Director of the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights, and appears on page 53.
This blog was originally posted on the ONE Campaign blog. Dozens of Maasai …
People often question Landesa’s emphasis on women’s land rights in our work, from …
While many people are aware that agriculture is highly susceptible to the effects …
This joint publication by USAID and the Nelson Institute features several case studies including two articles co-authored by Landesa’s land tenure specialist Darryl Vhugen and researcher Jonathan Miner, Threats to Village Land in Tanzania: Implications for REDD+ Benefit-Sharing Arrangements, and Carbon Rights in Mozambique: Harmonizing Land and Forest Laws to Conform with REDD+.
Report by Landesa (then called the Rural Development Institute) draws from 14 rounds of fieldwork in Egypt (between 1979 and 1991) to make an independent assessment of the U.S. economic aid program to address the needs of Egypt’s poor majority.
Regardless of what matters to you – access to education, universal food security, …
The Land Rush: Commercial Land Acquisitions in Developing Countries