Landesa's Issue Briefs provide a closer look at how land rights can improve lives and have a positive impact on the world's most persistent challenges.
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Progress towards the SDG land degradation and restoration commitments (2023)
This brief provides a detailed description of an analysis assessing what progress countries have made toward SDG 15.3 on land
Land Empowers: Life-cycle approach to girls’ and women’s land rights
A life-cycle look at how women’s and girls’ relationship to land can lead to transformation or discrimination.
Links between Women’s Land Tenure Security and Climate Action: An Evidence Brief
Learn how women’s land tenure security helps achieve climate goals through long-term land investments, expanded range of response options, and
Youth Hold The Key
Explore global data, case studies, and intersectional solutions for investing in youth land rights.
Land Rights Matter—For People and Planet
Across the globe—and everywhere Landesa works—communities in rural areas are among the most vulnerable to climate change impacts, like land
Land Rights for People in Rural Areas can Improve Forest Management, Halt Deforestation
In 2019 the world lost 46,000 square miles of forest every six seconds. The destruction of these forests – which
Responsible Land Governance Key to Vulnerable Countries’ Adaptive Capacity
Enshrining land governance and land tenure security within policy frameworks is essential to providing a foundation to support women and
Smallholder Farming and Achieving Global Development Goals
This brief makes the case that smallholder farms can be more productive than large farms. Investments in infrastructure, technology, inputs
Women’s Secure Rights to Land
This issue brief describes the best practices to overcome barriers against securing women’s rights to land to unlock the socioeconomic
