This paper details and assesses National Land Policy development process in Uganda, and in so doing, examines its potential to be the source of lessons for other countries developing politically sensitive policy reforms.
The paper is part of “The Challenges of Securing Women’s Tenure and Leadership for Forest Management,” published by Rights and Resources Initiative.
“Indigenous women’s land rights: case studies from Africa” is a chapter published by Minority Rights Group in their publication, State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2012. The chapter was written by Elisa Scalise, Director of the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights, and appears on page 53.
This joint publication by USAID and the Nelson Institute features several case studies including two articles co-authored by Landesa’s land tenure specialist Darryl Vhugen and researcher Jonathan Miner, Threats to Village Land in Tanzania: Implications for REDD+ Benefit-Sharing Arrangements, and Carbon Rights in Mozambique: Harmonizing Land and Forest Laws to Conform with REDD+.
January, 2012 Making Equal Rights Real is a collection of insights from leaders …
DECEMBER 2011 — The thematic issue of the Land Tenure Journal on climate …
A study published in the Economic and Political Weekly on the benefits of amply-sized homestead and garden plots, based on experiments in several countries, and replicated successfully in the southern state of Karnataka in India.
A study by the The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and Landesa’s partner in India, the Rural Development Institute, to examine the effectiveness of laws in the state of Karnataka in empowering women with property titles in their names.
This report by staff from Landesa (then called the Rural Development Institute) discusses land reform and efforts to support the development of land markets in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
2008 Description of a Landesa program in China funded by a $198,000 grant …