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Secure Land Rights for Tanzanian Youth: Missing Link in Quest for Rural Economic Growth

Harnessing the potential of youth through agriculture, a vital sector in Tanzania’s economy that employs as many as three-quarters of
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Implementing progressive laws can accelerate securing women’s land rights in Francophone Africa

Modern land reforms remain indispensable to tackle gender inequality in areas where customary discriminatory practices are dominant. Landesa intern Joy
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Securing Women’s Land Rights: Challenges and Solutions

Secure land tenure is key to eradicating poverty, increasing agricultural investment and ensuring food security, and is an essential element of climate action
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Gender Equality: Women, Land, and Data

Closing a data gap may seem technocratic and boring. But the social and economic empowerment prospects of more than one
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Could youth land rights hold the key to transforming agriculture and stimulating economic development in Africa?

From Liberia to Zimbabwe and Benin to Tanzania, advocates, legal experts and members of civil society are dismantling barriers that
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Why Securing Youth Land Rights Matter for Agriculture-Led Growth in Africa

Access to land is both a critical component and a fundamental barrier to productive youth engagement in agriculture. If properly
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Respecting land rights with PepsiCo

To help strengthen land rights for rural women and men and help mitigate risk to businesses, Landesa frequently advises companies
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OPINION: Solve land rights in Central America to stem U.S. migrant crisis

Landesa’s Sr. Research and Evaluation Advisor Gina Alvarado argues that the US should invest in programming that strengthens the land
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Realizing Land Rights to Deliver for Rural Women

The gender gap in land manifests itself in a stark reality – around the world, less than 15% of all landholders are women,
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One Company’s Journey to Better Respect Land: Illovo Sugar Africa

Land has always been an essential element of business for Illovo Sugar, Africa’s largest producer of sugarcane. But their perspective
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