Landesa Tanzania provides an overview of Tanzanian law as it pertains to youth land rights, identifies gaps and challenges in youth exercising land rights — including gender-based barriers for young women to access land — and issues policy recommendations for strengthening youth access and rights to land.
With the common aim of supporting the development of a protective, pro-poor legal framework, that will empower farmers to use the law, make informed decisions about their land, and maintain secure land tenure – ultimately leading to poverty alleviation for poor, rural women and men – Namati and Landesa have teamed up to prepare this report.
In 2010, Kenya adopted a new Constitution that guarantees equal rights for women and men and recognizes the role of traditional justice actors in resolving disputes, to the extent those actors comply with the principles enshrined in the Constitution. The following year Landesa designed and piloted the USAID-supported project, Enhancing Customary Justice Systems in the Mau Forest, Kenya, also known as the Kenya Justice Project (KJP).
The primary objective of the Justice Project was to pilot an approach for improving women’s access to justice related to land rights by building the capacity of customary justice actors, particularly traditional elders, to support and enforce women’s land rights, consistent with the Constitution.
This study analyzing the impact of the Girls Project, a pilot program designed and implemented by a partnership between the Indian government and Landesa, has found that participating girls are more likely to: stay in school longer, marry later, inherit land, and have an economic asset in their name.
In rural India, women do a majority of the agricultural labor, yet often have no legal right or control to the land they farm. A new study conducted by Landesa India for UN Women set out to discover the barriers to women’s land rights.
There is a series of strong policy, legal and social reasons to reform the NFPP so that affected farmers and communities are properly compensated.
This report explains how the Andhra Pradesh Licensed Cultivators’ Act has the potential to improve farm productivity as well as the socio-economic condition of farmers. It also recommends legal amendments to improve the effectiveness of the act.
This paper analyzes barriers to distribution of homestead land to rural women in India, a pilot program between the government and Landesa to address some of those barriers, and policy recommendations improve implementation of land distribution.
This paper explains legal education and assistance models in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, which offer practical solutions for resolving land problems and securing land right for the rural poor across India. This report also suggests a systems approach for resolving the land problems of the poor in India.