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Impact of Forestland Reforms on Rural Women in China
By Xiaobei Wang, China Gender Specialist, and Elisa Scalise, Director of the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights. Thirty years ago, in
Spotlight on Gender: Ensuring Poor Women Benefit from Forestland Reform in China
The paper is part of “The Challenges of Securing Women’s Tenure and Leadership for Forest Management,” published by Rights and
Land Law Advocacy for Farmers in China
This blog originally appeared on the World Bank Development Marketplace Blog. Even though Chinese law offers farmers protection from land
China: One fire may be out, but tensions over rural land rights are still smoldering
After months of protests and rioting in the small Chinese village of Wukan, life is returning to normal. As roadblocks
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
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
Who Owns Carbon in Rural China?
2010 This paper by staff from Landesa (then called the Rural Development Institute) describes the ways in which farmers’ rights
