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Ensuring and Protecting the Land Leasing Right of Poor Women in India
Lease farming by landless women in Kerala and Andhra Pradesh shows a pathway for reducing their poverty and enabling upward
Empowering Adolescent Girls through Land – A Public-Private Partnership
In 2012, Landesa and the government of West Bengal, India, entered an innovative partnership aimed at using land to reduce
Cultural Barriers in India Impede Women’s Legal Right to Inherit Land
By Ashok Sircar and Diana Fletschner As their husbands, fathers, and brothers migrate to cities in search of work, women
What Vietnam’s New Land Law Means for the Country and its Farmers
Since our initial work on land tenure reform took place in what was then South Vietnam – accompanied by a
Sowing it Forward
By Bholanath Chakladar This week, 55,339 destitute families across West Bengal will receive legal title to a micro-plot of land. The
Landesa’s Telangana Land Caravan | Daily Photo Journal
February 18, 2014 — News Update: Indian Parliament Voting to Create New State of Telangana On Tuesday, the Lower House
Security for Girls Through Land | Second Pilot Assessment (2012-2013)
This study analyzing the impact of the Girls Project, a pilot program designed and implemented by a partnership between the
Balancing Protection for China’s Forests and the Livelihoods of Surrounding Communities
By Yu Gao and Michael Lufkin Amid all the coverage of the Communist Party’s third plenum last November, one important
Case Studies on Women and Agriculture Projects in India
NOVEMBER 2013 — Landesa conducted a project jointly with UN WOMEN last year to study a national project of the Indian
The High Cost of Migration in China
Over the last three decades, more than 260 million rural residents of China have moved to the cities in one
