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Central Asia’s poorest farmers know the value of their land

Depleted land needs more water, which is already insufficient across much of Central Asia

Central Asia’s poorest farmers know the value of their land

08 March 2023

Farmland and pastures across Central Asia are far less productive after decades of monocropping

India's women water warriors transform parched lands

30 June 2022

Main banner photo: India is struggling to meet the water needs of its 1.4 billion people -- a problem worsening as climate change makes weather patterns more unpredictable SANJAY KANOJIA AFP

Chhatarpur (India) – As the monsoon storms bear down on India, a dedicated group of women hope that after years of backbreaking labour, water shortages will no longer leave their village high and dry.

China’s Push to Advance Rural Revitalization

12 February 2022

Xi is promoting a new vision to tackle long-standing problems like the rural-urban divide, food security, and poverty.

Blogs

Why investing in women’s land rights helps overall gender equality

Why investing in women’s land rights helps overall gender equality

04 August 2020

Ms. Karol Boudreaux

Supporting women’s ability to own, manage and control land will help accelerate gender equality globally

It is depressing, discouraging, infuriating – pick your word – to see the scale and scope of abuse and discrimination aimed at women and girls worldwide.

Demystifying Data: Data That Empowers

08 March 2019

A data story from women in a semiarid region of Brazil

*This story was written by the following women: Ducicleide Maria da Silva, Gigliola Silva Araújo, Ianka Sayonara da Silva, Josefa Ferreira da Silva, Maria do Carmo da Conceição Carvalho, Maria Karoline Policarpo Silva, Manuella Donato, Mariana de Albuquerque Vilarim and Thalya Carla Vieira de Lima and Patricia Maria Chaves . It was translated by Sonia Jay Wright.*

From Norway to India: the Importance of Land Rights to Increasing Opportunity and Prosperity

23 February 2018

Mr. Tim Hanstad

By Tim Hanstad, Co-Founder & Senior Advisor, Landesa

This is the first blog in a series of two that are based on a keynote address made at the 2018 India Land Development Conference.

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Discussions

Online Discussion: Land Rights Implications of COVID-19

Online Discussion: Land Rights Implications of COVID-19

Closed

02 June 2020 to 23 June 2020

Alexandre Corriveau-Bourque

Yuliya Panfil

Ms. Karol Boudreaux

Neil Sorensen

Miss Chantal Wieckardt

Landesa - Rural Development Institute

Land Portal Foundation

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

New America

Environmental Peacebuilding

LANDac

Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility

Cadasta Foundation

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Events

Migration, Displacement, and De-urbanization in the Context of COVID-19

28 May 2020

Online

Join us for the Land Rights and COVID-19 webinar and discussion series, which is presented by Land Portal, Landesa, the Global Protection Cluster HLP AOR and GIZ, with organizing support from Environmental Peacebuilding Association, LANDac, New America and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID).