So far in 2021, Landesa’s programs have strengthened land rights for over 760,000 people. Read more about gender-sensitive land services in India, updates from Myanmar and Cambodia, and additional program highlights in our latest Impact Report.
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Landesa statistics on women in farm work were cited in an article about low-cost innovations in farming.
A discriminatory land governance system coupled with gendered social norms result in violence and oppression of women in Jharkhand, India.
Landesa’s Pinaki Halder chronicles the discriminatory land governance system and gendered social norms that result in violence and oppression of women in Jharkhand, India, along with suggested short and long-term solutions.
The Logical Indian cited a Landesa infographic in a report on the gaps in women’s land rights in India.
Pathfinders has highlighted Landesa’s Shipra Deo as a Champion of Change for her work on gender equal and inclusive land governance in order to expand opportunities for women and girls in rural India.
Researchers for a global land rights organization have published a grim assessment of the land and inheritance rights of women living in Scheduled Tribe communities of Jharkhand, India – and how the existing eco-system of laws and cultural practices perpetuate a system of terror and brutality meant to deny women of their land rights.
Learn more about Dr. S B Lokesh, Landesa’s Karnataka State Director based in Bangalore, India. He has been working with Landesa since 2001.
Gender-responsive land tenure and property rights interventions can be an important catalyst in bringing the kind of revolutionary change necessary to correct the existing bias against women and girls, and forge more resilient societies in a post-pandemic world.
Dr. Tajamul Haque, an agriculture economist and one of India’s foremost land policy experts, passed away on May 2. Landesa joins the development community in India and around the world in mourning.