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.
Landesa’s Pinaki Halder chronicles the discriminatory land governance system and gendered social norms that result in violence and oppression of women in Jharkhand, India, along with suggested short and long-term solutions.
The Logical Indian cited a Landesa infographic in a report on the gaps in women’s land rights in India.
Pathfinders has highlighted Landesa’s Shipra Deo as a Champion of Change for her work on gender equal and inclusive land governance in order to expand opportunities for women and girls in rural India.
Landesa researchers reveal a brutal system of abuse and torture that deters tribal women from accessing their rights to land. The women in the tribal communities are particularly disadvantaged, as the customary practices do not support their land rights and the law of the state accepts customary practices of the tribal communities to be legal. While the research area focuses on the state of Jharkhand, similar trends are observable in India’s other tribal areas.