Land-based investment in Tanzania: how simplified legal guides are empowering communities
Masalu Luhula discusses how the use of simplified legal guides is helping to empower communities to engage in dialogue and negotiations with government authorities and investors – and to promote socially responsible land-based investment.
Land rights of women are key to break the gender bias
The fight for gender equality is a story of bias and prejudices. Twelve women are breaking those biases by starting a collective farm in their village.
Give land rights to youth to boost rural economies
Helping young people access land allows them to participate in rural economies while making progress on gender equity, food security, and adaptation to climate change.
Despite courts, the plot is against daughters
A new court ruling in India expands the scope of a daughter's right to inherit land, but the bigger picture remains one of stark gender disparities in land rights.
We Cannot Be Equal Until We Are People
Securing land rights for women digs down to the root of gender inequality; radically, quietly uprooting it, overturning it, elevating women toward equal legal personhood at household, community and societal levels.
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