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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
Connecting the Dots between Nutrition and Land Rights
By: Dr. S.B. Lokesh, Landesa India state director of Karnataka Karnataka, India–It is a little known fact that the best predictor
A Letter to Mothers in the Developing World
A Letter to Mothers in the Developing World, Landesa salutes mothers in the developing world – our partners. We advocate
Women’s land rights and nutrition
While there is no silver bullet to solve global hunger, discussion at the Global Conference of Women in Agriculture (GCWA),
Social Entrepreneurs “Refreshingly Uncynical” — But Not At All Delusional (guest post)
Partner post by Sally Osberg, CEO of Skoll Foundation. This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post. Just as I
How women can help solve the global food security problem
Four years ago, Asira Nzamwitaakuze, a Rwandan farmer and mother of four young children, more than doubled her harvest when
Change requires a movement
I have been working on issues related to women’s secure rights to the land they farm for over 15 years,
