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February 18, 2014 — News Update: Indian Parliament Voting to Create New State …
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February 18, 2014 — News Update: Indian Parliament Voting to Create New State …
This study analyzing the impact of the Girls Project, a pilot program designed and implemented by a partnership between the Indian government and Landesa, has found that participating girls are more likely to: stay in school longer, marry later, inherit land, and have an economic asset in their name.
NOVEMBER 2013 — Landesa conducted a project jointly with UN WOMEN last year …
In rural India, women do a majority of the agricultural labor, yet often have no legal right or control to the land they farm. A new study conducted by Landesa India for UN Women set out to discover the barriers to women’s land rights.
This post originally appeared on the Council on Foreign Relations Development Channel. In …
This post originally appeared on The Daily Beast’s website. For many girls around …
This post was originally published on USAID’s Land Tenure and Property Rights Portal …
This report explains how the Andhra Pradesh Licensed Cultivators’ Act has the potential to improve farm productivity as well as the socio-economic condition of farmers. It also recommends legal amendments to improve the effectiveness of the act.
This paper analyzes barriers to distribution of homestead land to rural women in India, a pilot program between the government and Landesa to address some of those barriers, and policy recommendations improve implementation of land distribution.
This paper explains legal education and assistance models in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, which offer practical solutions for resolving land problems and securing land right for the rural poor across India. This report also suggests a systems approach for resolving the land problems of the poor in India.