Why Women Farmers Deserve the Right to Identity
On the 2019 International Day of Rural Women, Landesa’s Shipra Deo explores how land rights are an essential element for overturning misperceptions about the role of women in society and on the farm.
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On the 2019 International Day of Rural Women, Landesa’s Shipra Deo explores how land rights are an essential element for overturning misperceptions about the role of women in society and on the farm.
Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in India through Industrial Land Rights Allocating shares of industrial …
This blog originally appeared on Land Portal. By Tim Hanstad In my experience …
India’s economy has already crossed $2 trillion and is growing annually at around 6%. But these figures cannot hide the fact that 69% of the population is rural, and 70% of this, or nearly half of all Indians, still depend on land and land-based activities for their livelihoods, according to figures in the India Rural Development Report 2012-2013, released by Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation.
Despite an abundance of resources, dedicated efforts to alleviate poverty, generous donors, and committed development experts, we continue to live in a world where one billion of our fellow citizens live in dire poverty.
S. B. Lokesh State Director, Karnataka, India S.B. Lokesh was Landesa’s first staff …
This post was originally published on USAID’s Land Tenure and Property Rights Portal …
August 12, 2013 — The central government of India has released a draft of an ambitious new national land reform policy for public discussion that, if approved and adopted, could help the country end landlessness and extreme rural poverty.
Across India, where I live and work, I can clearly see the connection …