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India Targeting Rural Land Insecurity with State-level Programs and New National Bill

This post was originally published on USAID's Land Tenure and Property Rights Portal There is growing recognition that India cannot solve many of its critical development challenges if it doesn’t help the 20 million landless rural families and the millions more who lack legal rights to the land they till. This recognition has sparked a flurry of promising state-level programs and a historic new national bill that aims to eliminate rural landlessness and land insecurity. These [...]