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Meet the women, men, and families around the world who have benefited from access to stronger land rights.

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Children here did not attend school, but worked alongside their parents in landowners’ fields. When those fields were fallow, the

Shakti beams with pride as she holds her patta – the title to her land. Before she became a landowner,

In Neilu village in China’s Fujian Province, Lin Lianhua and her husband, Su Yuan, spent their lives farming a small

After two years trying to reclaim their inheritance rights to their family’s forestland, three sisters in a remote county of

Around the globe, from the streets of London to the Arab world’s public squares, youth and disenfranchisement have proved a

Bali Sabar’s journey from typical unemployed and hopeless youth to village savior began in a humble but powerful meeting.

When her husband died in 2009, Gladys Chepkorir had no time to linger on the grief. “Immediately after he died,

With a land title, Liberata could feed her children and afford to send them to school.

The Girls Project, a partnership between the government of West Bengal and Landesa, aims to keep girls in school and

Grace’s story is one that touches on many of the most sensitive issues surrounding land access in Northern Uganda. She