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Land Rights for Women Mean Progress for Communities
Posted: 11/24/2014
Source: Huffington Post
By Tim Hanstad, President and CEO, Landesa
If we want to empower rural women in the developing world, there is no better first step than providing them with secure rights to land.
7 ways to work for better land rights
24/11/2014
Source: IDS
These are the questions that were tackled on the second day of the inaugural Conference on Land Policy in Africa, hosted by the Land Policy Initiative of the African Union, African Development Bank and UNECA, taking place currently at African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa.
Landesa’s Annual Report Released – 2.2 Million Lives Impacted
More than 2.2 million lives changed – 50,000 of those in a single week. Learn more about Landesa’s impact over the past year, from India and China to Rwanda, in Landesa’s new annual report.
View the online annual report
Download the PDF
REMINDER: Call for expression of interest still open. Women are particularly encouraged to apply.
The Land Portal is recruiting new Board members of the recently established Land Portal Foundation and is looking for female candidates.
Background
The Land Portal is a global gateway for aggregating information on land from multiple sources and building a specialized community of land experts from civil society organisations, governmental and intergovernmental institutions and academia. Find out more about us here.
Rappel: Appel à manifestation d’intérêt encore ouvert. Les femmes sont encouragées à postuler.
Le Portail foncier recrute les membres du Conseil de la toute nouvelle Fondation du Portail foncier et est à la recherche de candidates.
Contexte
Le Portail foncier est un site Internet à portée internationale ayant pour vocation de recueillir les informations foncières provenant de sources multiples et de créer un réseau spécialisé d’experts fonciers issus d’organisations de la société civile, d’institutions intergouvernementales et d’universités.
Nueva publicación sobre Concentración de Tierras y Seguridad Alimentaria en Centroamérica
Source: International Land Coalition
14 de noviembre de 2014.
En Centroamérica tierra significa poder: su tenencia y uso siguen siendo decisivos para el desarrollo social, económico y político de la región. La agricultura es la principal actividad económica y la población rural representa cerca de la mitad de los habitantes, proporción mayor al resto de la región latinoamericana.