Posts Tagged: Land Formalization

By: Dr. S.B. Lokesh, Landesa India state director of Karnataka Karnataka, India–It is a little known fact that the best predictor

As my three daughters sharpen pencils, don their backpacks, and head back to school, it pains me to remember that

A group of women from Africa and Asia will soon gather in Seattle for a boot camp of sorts. They’ll

By Xiaobei Wang, China Gender Specialist, and Elisa Scalise, Director of the Landesa  Center for Women’s Land Rights. Thirty years ago, in

The G(irls)20 Summit was held from May 24-31 in Mexico City, Mexico just before the leaders of the world’s most powerful

Four years ago, Asira Nzamwitaakuze, a Rwandan farmer and mother of four young children, more than doubled her harvest when

I have been working on issues related to women’s secure rights to the land they farm for over 15 years,

Zack Foreman was among the wealthiest men in the West during the 1890s. He had his own private railroad, herds

People often question Landesa’s emphasis on women’s land rights in our work, from China and India to Rwanda and Kenya.

After months of protests and rioting in the small Chinese village of Wukan, life is returning to normal. As roadblocks