Landesa partners with governments and multilateral institutions to support land reform efforts and elevate land rights in regional development agendas in Southeast Asia.
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.
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.
The future belongs to youth. But in many parts of the world, young women and men lack the means and the opportunity to build livelihoods and fully participate in their communities. This is especially true in rural areas, where agriculture is the foundation of the economy, but land rights remain out of reach.
Secure land rights are central to unlocking the potential of youth around the world; to activating a new generation of agricultural innovators and empowered young women.
LUI Che Woo Prize profiled Landesa’s work to secure land rights as a way to promote security and stability, especially in the upheaval resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.
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.
Landesa is monitoring the ongoing situation in Myanmar, where the military has declared a state of emergency and assumed control of the government.
Land degradation neutrality is daunting, but not impossible. And often the solutions are simple, even if the implementation is challenging: protect forests and land, and the people stewarding them.
Read more about Daw Mar Mar Wai, Landesa’s Regional Program Manager based in Ayeyarwady, Myanmar.