To help widows like Imelda, Landesa launched an innovative, gender-responsive land use planning process. The participatory program increased the awareness of women like Imelda regarding their land rights, helping to accelerate gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Because youth constitute the majority of the population across Africa, investing in youth access to land is recognized as a key strategy for both economic and agricultural development. A number of countries have embraced this strategy, with Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania among others advancing efforts to improve youth land rights.
Landesa looked into the land issues and risks of coal and renewable energy (particularly wind, solar, and geothermal) in seven countries. Check out the full report for findings and recommendations for addressing prevalent land-related issues.
Landesa’s Khadija Mrisho discusses the safety net of rights to land and other links between land & gender-based violence in a new op-ed for The Citizen Newspaper.
We are inspired by the possibility of strengthening women’s land rights as a way to empower women socially and economically. One such potential benefit concerns the ways in which land rights may protect women from domestic or gender-based violence – a relevant topic as the global community observes the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence.
Landesa research was quoted in an article about centering women in climate decision making and shifting discriminatory norms that hinder women from accessing land.
Hear from Landesa’s Tanzania Program Director Godfrey Massay about our strides to build an inclusive, sustainable land sector in Tanzania alongside civil society.
Read about women’s land rights, food security, and climate change in an interview with Landesa’s S4HL Global Advocacy Director Esther Wanjiku Mwaura Muiru and former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman.
Learn more about the possibilities offered by securing youth land rights in a new piece from the Youth Initiative for Land in Africa. This Q&A is one installment in a three-part series on the links between land rights, climate change, and crosscutting themes of gender equity, youth empowerment, and rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
If we want to improve lives and alleviate poverty, achieve food security globally, and guarantee human rights and full dignity for all, we must invest in land rights for women.