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Land rights for women flips the script of gendered power—it challenges patriarchy at its root, by fundamentally changing women’s economic, social, and political status. And key to climate action, research shows efforts to protect biodiversity and address climate change are more successful when women have strong land rights.
In partnership with Devex and Hilton Foundation, Chris Jochnick and Shipra Deo discuss how humanitarian organizations can build resilience to address the crises that will emerge in the next years and decades.
The fight for gender equality is a story of bias and prejudices. Twelve women are breaking those biases by starting a collective farm in their village.
On International Women’s Day, the Times of India ran a piece by Shipra Deo, Landesa’s director of women’s land rights in India, about the power of land rights for women in tackling some of the significant challenges of our time: gender equality, food security and climate change.
Mongabay interviewed Pinaki Halder, Landesa Director of Programs, India, for a story about land rights issues that have beset a solar park in Karnataka state, India.
Wherever Landesa works, we are helping to ensure that individuals, families and communities have access to a critical resource for improving lives and livelihoods. Learn more about the exciting ways our work is growing in our 2021 Annual Report.
A new court ruling in India expands the scope of a daughter’s right to inherit land, but the bigger picture remains one of stark gender disparities in land rights.
A new court ruling in India expands the scope of a daughter’s right to inherit land, but the bigger picture remains one of stark gender disparities in land rights. Read more in a new Times Of India blog by Landesa’s Shipra Deo & Robert Mitchell.
Rachel McMonagle, Landesa’s climate change & land tenure specialist, discusses using land rights to adapt to climate change on Property Rights Research Consortium’s Land of a Billion podcast.
Securing land rights for women digs down to the root of gender inequality; radically, quietly uprooting it, overturning it, elevating women toward equal legal personhood at household, community and societal levels.