How Small Plots Of Land Helped Lift An Entire Indian Village Out Of Poverty
Guest post by Ariel Schwartz, Senior Editor of FastCompany’s Co.Exist site. This article was originally published on July 10, 2012 on FastCoExist.com. Land ownership is an important factor in getting...
View ArticleMicro-plots: A Foundation for Development
By Sanjoy Patnaik Most of the world’s poor share two traits: they rely on agriculture to survive, but they don’t own or have legal control over the land they till. Across India, there are tens of...
View ArticleInvisible and Voiceless
By Kalpana Sharma After a poor monsoon season, much of India now appears to be headed into a serious drought. In more than 12,000 villages in Maharashtra state, crops have withered. Farmers are...
View ArticleThe feminization of farming means women’s land rights have never been more...
By Renée Giovarelli and D. Hien Tran This post originally appeared on the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ “Global Food for Thought” blog. Forty years after the green revolution dramatically...
View ArticleShow Me Your Palms, Sister
By Swati Bhattacharjee – a chief reporter-district for the Bengali newspaper “Ananda Bazar Patrika.” This is an excerpt from her original article which was published as an Op-ed in Bengali on 14th...
View ArticleEmerging Voices: Ashok Sircar on Women’s Right to Inherit Land in India
By Dr. Ashok Sircar, Program Director, Landesa India This post originally appeared on the Council on Foreign Relations Development Channel Blog as part of their Emerging Voices series. Emerging Voices...
View ArticleChina’s polluted farmlands carry the seeds of change
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as “A clean start” and on scmp.com. Gao Yu says the severity of China’s agricultural pollution and food safety problems offer an...
View ArticleWhy land should be part of the post-2015 development agenda
This blog was originally posted on Devex as part of their Land Matters campaign. By Tim Hanstad, D. Hien Tran and Matt Bannick Capable and hardworking women and men can be found throughout the world....
View ArticleHow Ensuring Women’s Rights to Land Keeps Girls Out of Child Marriage in Kenya
“Life has changed for my little girl Kayla,” says Gladys Chepkorir, a widow with two young daughters, “I have set up an account for her education, to give her more opportunities.” Not so long ago,...
View ArticleBalancing Protection for China’s Forests and the Livelihoods of Surrounding...
By Michael Lufkin and Yu Gao Amid all the coverage of the Communist Party’s third plenum last November, one important statement seems to have been overlooked: the Central Committee’s assertion on the...
View ArticleCultural Barriers in India Impede Women’s Legal Right to Inherit Land
By Ashok Sircar and Diana Fletschner As their husbands, fathers, and brothers migrate to cities in search of work, women across India have become the backbone of the country’s agricultural sector....
View ArticleAfter My Garden Grows: Short Documentary Film
“After My Garden Grows” About the Film and the Girls Project After My Garden Grows is a new short documentary about Monika, one of 40,000 rural Indian girls participating in the Girls Project, a...
View ArticleNew Infographic Illustrates the Global Impact of Land Rights
Secure land rights are a foundation that allows other development efforts to take root. Landesa created an interactive infographic mapping how secure land rights around the world have helped millions...
View ArticleThe True Measure of Land’s Value
This post originally appeared on NextBillion. By Sabita Parida As a trained agriculturist, I have always measured the worth of land in a very scientific manner. I consider the climate, water resources...
View ArticleHelping Grow the “We”
By Laura Lee Grace There is a saying that “If your life’s work can be accomplished in your own lifetime, you are not thinking big enough.” It has been my honor to work for decades with Roy Prosterman –...
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