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Shipra Deo

Shipra
Deo

Shipra Deo leads Landesa’s work in India. She is a development practitioner with 20 years of experience in managing multidisciplinary programs addressing women’s empowerment, women’s land rights, violence against women, agriculture, collective action, livelihoods and institution building. She has experience working with international agencies such as UNDP, USAID, and BMGF, and has also worked with state governments and national as well as grassroots organizations.  She has worked closely with development projects in South Asia, Africa, and Central Europe with the focus on gender mainstreaming.

Temas y Regiones

India
Tierra y Género
Incidencia
Empoderamiento legal
Desarrollo sostenible
Mujeres

Detalles

Director Of Women's Land Rights, India
Affiliation: 

Landesa - Rural Development Institute

About Landesa


Landesa partners with governments and local organizations to ensure that the world’s poorest families have secure rights over the land they till. Founded as the Rural Development Institute, Landesa has helped more than 105 million poor families gain legal control over their land since 1967. When families have secure rights to land, they can invest in their land to sustainably increase their harvests and reap the benefits—improved nutrition, health, and education—for generations.

Location: 
India
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Contributions

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Tribal people walk with their belongings in Tarapur village, about 87 km (54 miles) south from the western Indian city of Ahmedabad July 13, 2007. REUTERS/Amit Dave (INDIA)

Why are tribal women in India still robbed of their land rights?

India
Tierra y Género
Equidad de género
Equidad de género en el acceso a la tierra
Corrupción
Derecho consuetudinario
Linaje patrilineal
Derechos de tierras
Derechos sobre tierras comunales
Derechos tradicionales de tierras
Tenencia consuetudinaria
Activistas por el derecho a la tierra
comunidad local
Mujeres

In Jharkhand, eastern India, women are not entitled to own land and accusations of witchcraft are wielded against them to silence their claims to land

When Talabitti’s husband died in 2016, her claim to the family land seemed to die with him. Though her husband had worked the family land by himself, upon his death his male cousins laid their claim. If Talabitti attempted to make a competing claim, they threatened to drive her away – with violence, if necessary. Sadly, this threat materialized.

Blog post
WLR_India_ILDC

The Road to the India Land and Development Conference 2020: An Interview with Shipra Deo

India
Tierra y Género
Incidencia
Equidad de género en el acceso a la tierra
derechos de herencia sobre la tierra
Mujeres

The  4th India Land and Development Conference, set to start next week, invites a wide variety of individuals and institutions to engage in thought-provoking and interdisciplinary conversations and analyses.  More specifically, the Conference's theme Institutions, Innovations and Informations in Land Governance invites us all to think about us all to think about the role that information sharing can play in helping to ensure effective land governance.

Blog post
Why Women Farmers Deserve the Right to Identity

Why Women Farmers Deserve the Right to Identity

Kenya
China
Myanmar
Bangladesh
Tierra y Género
Agricultura
Equidad de género en el acceso a la tierra
derechos de herencia sobre la tierra
derecho agrario
Propiedad de la tierra
Derechos de tierras
Derechos de propiedad maritales
Linaje matrilineal
Linaje patrilineal
Propiedad privada
Desarrollo sostenible
Mujeres

On the 2019 International Day of Rural Women, Landesa’s Shipra Deo explores how land rights are an essential element for overturning misperceptions about the role of women in society and on the farm.


In a workshop with a group of agronomists who work in agriculture extension in India, I ask the participants to draw the picture of a farmer with whom they work. All but one of them draw male figures.


Blog post
Marriage or Inheritance: The Strange choice before daughters of Uttar Pradesh, India

Marriage or Inheritance: The Strange choice before daughters of Uttar Pradesh, India

India
Tierra y Género
Agricultura
Desposesión
Equidad de género en el acceso a la tierra
derechos de herencia sobre la tierra
Reforma de la tenencia de la tierra
Derechos de tierras
Derechos de propiedad maritales
Linaje patrilineal
Desarrollo sostenible
Mujeres

The daughters of Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in India, face a vexing decision: Marriage or inheritance?

In 2006, when the state first recognized the rights of unmarried daughters to inherit family land, it simultaneously left millions of women with a dilemma. While ostensibly a step toward gender equality, the new law excluded married daughters, meaning that women who married would face the prospect of weakening or losing their rights to inherit land in their birth family. Daughters of the state were effectively left to choose between marriage and land ownership.

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