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Peace, land and the development challenge
This post originally appeared on Devex as part of their Land Matters campaign. The Millennium Summit follow-up report of the U.N. secretary-general
4 Traits the World’s Poorest Share, and What That Tells Us About Addressing Hunger
Most of the world’s poorest citizens share four traits: They live in rural areas. They depend on the land to
Helping the Invisible
More than 17 million rural families—children, women and men—across India are invisible. They are invisible to the government and to
To combat hunger, give land rights to rural women
This post was originally published by the Christian Science Monitor on July 17, 2013. When world leaders gathered in London
China’s polluted farmlands carry the seeds of change
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as “A clean start” and on scmp.com. Gao Yu
3 Ways to Make Private Land Investment and Individual Land Rights Mutually Beneficial
Recently in Uganda, I met Esther, a young widow with multiple children, farming a few acres of land. Esther’s rights
Emerging Voices: Ashok Sircar on Women’s Right to Inherit Land in India
By Dr. Ashok Sircar, Program Director, Landesa India This post originally appeared on the Council on Foreign Relations Development Channel
Four Ways to Help Myanmar’s Rural Poor
This post was originally featured on the World Economic Forum Blog. Today, about half of the world’s population is urban. This
A Priceless Asset for India’s Women
This article was originally posted by the Wall Street Journal on their India Real Time blog on April 19, 2013. The Indian
Show Me Your Palms, Sister
By Swati Bhattacharjee – a chief reporter-district for the Bengali newspaper “Ananda Bazar Patrika.” This is an excerpt from her original
