With the world’s food supply under threat and millions already facing climate-driven migration, a land-use revolution is needed. Legal reforms that strengthen rural communities’ land rights are essential to providing the leverage and incentive to invest in climate resilience.
In Dar es Salaam, Thomson Reuters Foundation’s global legal pro bono service convened leading women’s rights organizations, including Landesa, to discuss how legal pro bono can strengthen their work on gender equality.
Shipra Deo, Landesa’s Women’s Land Rights (WLR) Director in India, writes about a new law in Uttar Pradesh that strengthens WLRs, the history of WLRs in the region, and practical steps to continue forward progress.
Landesa’s Sr. Research and Evaluation Advisor Gina Alvarado argues that the United States should invest in programming that strengthens the land tenure rights of Central American farmers as a sustainable way to stem the current migrant crisis.
Women Deliver published a blog by Karol Boudreaux, Landesa’s Chief Program Officer, about the existing gender gap in land rights, and the benefits of closing this gap for rural women everywhere.
In an Devex op-ed by Tim Hanstad, Landesa is featured as an NGO that partners with governments to conduct research in order to better understand ground realities.
In a statement to Engineering News, Illovo Sugar Africa recounts their collaboration with Landesa and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to help the company implement its land rights policies and commitments.
The Coalition of Women Leaders for the Environment and Sustainable Development (CFLEDD) noted Landesa’s support in crafting the Explanatory Note on Women’s Land and Forest Rights in the DRC published earlier this week in Kinshasa.
The New Dawn wrote about a two-day workshop that Landesa hosted in Monrovia, Liberia on Land Rights for Sustainable Development under the theme “Good Practices on Land Regulations.”
Land Portal published a blog featuring an interview with Landesa’s Monica Mhoja about what international audiences need to know about the challenges and opportunities facing indigenous and local community women.
