An Op-ed by Landesa Founder Roy Prosterman and Gao Yu, Landesa’s China Country Director, ran in the South China Morning Post and argues for laws to be strengthened around land rights for poor farmers in China. The article is about the need to strengthen land rights to protect farmers in China. For a PDF of the full article, click here.
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