Roy Prosterman began Landesa’s work in 1967. We created the Landesa Campaign to honor his legacy and continued commitment as a pioneer of secure land rights.
Thanks to your support, we’ve honored Roy and strengthened the central pillars of the Landesa Campaign.
Landesa continues to build the next generation of land rights advocates.
Over the past four years, we have hosted a total of 28 Visiting Professionals, who have helped Landesa strengthen the network of women’s land rights professionals around the world.
The Landesa Campaign elevated land rights as a key foundation for poverty alleviation on the global stage.
This year the UN incorporated land rights for women and men into its historic global agenda, the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
In 2015, Landesa received the Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world's largest humanitarian award, in recognition of our decades of achievement and the more than 115 million families we’ve helped gain more secure rights to land.
Your commitment helped make all of this and more possible! And it will continue to create opportunity for the world’s poorest women and men for years to come. Thank you for your support of the Landesa Campaign.
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Mangrove Ecosystem Service Valuation in Indonesia’s New Capital City – IKN
This brief highlights how recognizing and integrating the ecosystem services of mangroves into planning decisions—complemented by conservation efforts and sustainable resource use through strengthened tenure rights—is essential to promoting sustainable land use in Indonesia’s intended new capital city.
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Integrating Mangrove Ecosystem Valuation, Land Certification, and Gender Inclusion in Nusantara Capital City
Landesa’s new study demonstrates how Indonesia’s intended new capital city can showcase integrated and inclusive tenure security and coastal management that balance urban development with mangrove ecosystem conservation. The study reveals the feasibility of implementing Payment for Ecosystem Services and proposes integrating ecosystem service economics with the land certification framework in the country, pioneering gender-responsive ecosystem service rights certification.
Landesa Reports, Research
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Meet Momtaz Begum, a woman rebuilding hope in coastal Bangladesh by adapting her land and planting mangroves to protect her home from the rising tide of climate change.
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