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Gender-responsive land tenure and property rights interventions can be an important catalyst in bringing the kind of revolutionary change necessary to correct the existing bias against women and girls, and forge more resilient societies in a post-pandemic world.
Dr. Tajamul Haque, an agriculture economist and one of India’s foremost land policy experts, passed away on May 2. Landesa joins the development community in India and around the world in mourning.
Li Ping, China Program Director and Senior Policy Advisor based in Seattle, Washington, began working with Roy Prosterman and Tim Hanstad in 1987.
Landesa’s Pinaki Halder was quoted in an article about the next generation’s push for land rights on tea plantations in West Bengal to break the intergenerational cycle of labor.
Landesa was cited in an article about the gendered impacts of the new farm laws in India.
As the renewable energy sector continues to grow and evolve, it will need to be increasingly mindful of the need to ensure that adverse impacts on the environment, communities and human rights do not arise from its value chain and operations.
Shipra Deo was interviewed for an article about why national datasets in India differ on women’s land rights, and ideas for how to fix this.
In Jharkhand, eastern India, women are not entitled to own land and accusations of witchcraft are wielded against them to silence their claims to land.