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Plotting a Path to a More Peaceful World
‘Tis the season when hope for peace runs high. The season when I renew my commitment to creating a better
Land rights for women can help ease India’s child malnutrition crisis
This post originally appeared in the Guardian’s Poverty Matters Blog Despite progress on many fronts, India’s child malnutrition rate rivals
Growing Tomorrow’s Leaders, One Land Title at a Time
It should be simple. A country ensures free education for all children, and everyone benefits. But we all know it’s
A Comprehensive Approach to Securing Land Tenure in China
On a recent visit to Tianzhong, China, I was reminded of how many of China’s rural development, planning and justice
Chinese Government Bans Time Travel
The most popular TV shows in China feature modern Chinese characters who travel back in time to the Qing Dynasty,
“In China it is power, not law, which governs.”
When eating dinner with a family in Fujian province, I explained I was a lawyer conducting field research. The elderly
Larger Homestead Plots as Land Reform? International Experience and Analysis from India
A study published in the Economic and Political Weekly on the benefits of amply-sized homestead and garden plots, based on
Increasing Women’s Property Ownership through Rural Housing Programmes in India
A study by the The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and Landesa’s partner in India, the Rural Development
World Bank Award: Legal Education Center for Farmers' Land Rights
2008 Description of a Landesa program in China funded by a $198,000 grant from the World Bank to create a
World Bank: Chinese Farmers’ Land Rights at the Crossroads – Findings from 2010 Nationwide Survey
A presentation by Landesa staff about a nationwide survey of farming families in China, in which the researchers describe issues
