Masalu Luhula discusses how the use of simplified legal guides in Tanzania is helping to empower communities to engage in dialogue and negotiations with government authorities and investors – and to promote socially responsible land-based investment.
In a short video, Chris Jochnick and Shipra Deo discuss how humanitarian organizations can build resilience to address future crises.
March 2022
Al Jazeera interviewed Landesa Africa Region Director Margaret Rugadya for context on women’s land rights in their story about a 57-year-old Maasai woman’s tortuous path to owning land.
On International Women’s Day, the Times of India ran a piece by Shipra Deo, Landesa’s director of women’s land rights in India, about the power of land rights for women in tackling some of the significant challenges of our time: gender equality, food security and climate change.
February 2022
Mongabay interviewed Pinaki Halder, Landesa Director of Programs, India, for a story about land rights issues that have beset a solar park in Karnataka state, India.
For Thomson Reuters Foundation, Landesa Sr. Youth and Land Tenure Specialist Tizai Mauto explains why youth land rights are key to revitalizing rural economies and creating job opportunities for millions of young people worldwide.
A new court ruling in India expands the scope of a daughter’s right to inherit land, but the bigger picture remains one of stark gender disparities in land rights. Read more in a new Times Of India blog by Landesa’s Shipra Deo & Robert Mitchell.
Rachel McMonagle, Landesa’s climate change & land tenure specialist, discusses using land rights to adapt to climate change on Property Rights Research Consortium’s Land of a Billion podcast.
January 2022
Landesa’s Director of Women’s Land Rights Beth Roberts and University of East Anglia’s Nitya Rao argue the importance of women’s land rights for the realization of their full personhood, citizenship, and identity.
Al Jazeera interviewed Landesa Africa Region Director Margaret Rugadya for context on women’s land rights in their story about a 57-year-old Maasai woman’s tortuous path to owning land.
On International Women’s Day, the Times of India ran a piece by Shipra Deo, Landesa’s director of women’s land rights in India, about the power of land rights for women in tackling some of the significant challenges of our time: gender equality, food security and climate change.
February 2022
Mongabay interviewed Pinaki Halder, Landesa Director of Programs, India, for a story about land rights issues that have beset a solar park in Karnataka state, India.
For Thomson Reuters Foundation, Landesa Sr. Youth and Land Tenure Specialist Tizai Mauto explains why youth land rights are key to revitalizing rural economies and creating job opportunities for millions of young people worldwide.
A new court ruling in India expands the scope of a daughter’s right to inherit land, but the bigger picture remains one of stark gender disparities in land rights. Read more in a new Times Of India blog by Landesa’s Shipra Deo & Robert Mitchell.
Rachel McMonagle, Landesa’s climate change & land tenure specialist, discusses using land rights to adapt to climate change on Property Rights Research Consortium’s Land of a Billion podcast.
January 2022
Landesa’s Director of Women’s Land Rights Beth Roberts and University of East Anglia’s Nitya Rao argue the importance of women’s land rights for the realization of their full personhood, citizenship, and identity.
Mongabay interviewed Pinaki Halder, Landesa Director of Programs, India, for a story about land rights issues that have beset a solar park in Karnataka state, India.
For Thomson Reuters Foundation, Landesa Sr. Youth and Land Tenure Specialist Tizai Mauto explains why youth land rights are key to revitalizing rural economies and creating job opportunities for millions of young people worldwide.
A new court ruling in India expands the scope of a daughter’s right to inherit land, but the bigger picture remains one of stark gender disparities in land rights. Read more in a new Times Of India blog by Landesa’s Shipra Deo & Robert Mitchell.
Rachel McMonagle, Landesa’s climate change & land tenure specialist, discusses using land rights to adapt to climate change on Property Rights Research Consortium’s Land of a Billion podcast.
January 2022
Landesa’s Director of Women’s Land Rights Beth Roberts and University of East Anglia’s Nitya Rao argue the importance of women’s land rights for the realization of their full personhood, citizenship, and identity.
Landesa’s Director of Women’s Land Rights Beth Roberts and University of East Anglia’s Nitya Rao argue the importance of women’s land rights for the realization of their full personhood, citizenship, and identity.