In the first quarter of 2022, Landesa’s programs have strengthened land rights for over 850,000 people. Read more about the global women’s land rights campaign, a new mangrove and livelihoods protection initiative in Southeast Asia, and additional program highlights in our latest Impact Report.
In this 4-part podcast series, our host Megan Olson, a land tenure specialist at Landesa, sits down with experts from around the world who share real-life wins, challenges, and lessons from their work in making land-based investments more responsible. Episode 1 on Indonesian Palm Oil and the Power of Remediation is out now.
In this episode of Belongg’s Inclusive Food Systems podcast series, Landesa’s Shipra Deo discusses women’s land ownership and food security, patriarchal land inheritance laws, and gender-based violence against women land owners.
Land rights for women flips the script of gendered power—it challenges patriarchy at its root, by fundamentally changing women’s economic, social, and political status. And key to climate action, research shows efforts to protect biodiversity and address climate change are more successful when women have strong land rights.
Land rights for women flips the script of gendered power—it challenges patriarchy at its root, by fundamentally changing women’s economic, social, and political status. And key to climate action, research shows efforts to protect biodiversity and address climate change are more successful when women have strong land rights.
In partnership with Devex and Hilton Foundation, Chris Jochnick and Shipra Deo discuss how humanitarian organizations can build resilience to address the crises that will emerge in the next years and decades.
This video was debuted at Landesa’s 2022 Seed the Change gala.
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.
On International Women’s Day, the Times of India ran a piece by Shipra Deo, Landesa’s director of women’s land rights in India, about the power of land rights for women in tackling some of the significant challenges of our time: gender equality, food security and climate change.