Live Law published a blog by Landesa Director of Women’s Land Rights, India, Shipra Deo and Asia Region Sr. Director Robert Mitchell, summarizing progress toward securing inheritance rights for women in India.
Rapid urbanisation has put farmers’ land increasingly in the crosshairs of developers. Two recent changes to Chinese land laws seek to address land expropriation, and represent a milestone in protecting farmers from unjust practices.
The Wall Street Journal published a letter by Landesa CEO Chris Jochnick on new legislation in China that reins in land expropriation and provides greater protections for farmers.
Working alongside women’s community groups, Landesa is bringing gender-sensitive land resources to women in rural West Bengal.
So far in 2021, Landesa’s programs have strengthened land rights for over 760,000 people. Read more about gender-sensitive land services in India, updates from Myanmar and Cambodia, and additional program highlights in our latest Impact Report.
Learn more about Devon O’Neill, a Program Officer for Landesa’s Asia Program based in Seattle, WA. Devon began working for Landesa in 2017.
Landesa statistics on women in farm work were cited in an article about low-cost innovations in farming.
Landesa China Program Director Li Ping writes about how changes to the 2019 amended Land Management Law and recently adopted implementing regulations create guardrails for farmers’ land rights in the context of land expropriation.
Join CEO Chris Jochnick for a virtual conversation across continents featuring our guest, Annie Chen of the RS Group, and Li Ping, Landesa’s China Program Director, as they discuss the evolution of our land rights work in China and what comes next.
A discriminatory land governance system coupled with gendered social norms result in violence and oppression of women in Jharkhand, India.