January 2014 — In rural areas from East Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa, women …
January 2014 — In rural areas from East Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa, women …
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.
Landesa conducted a project jointly with UN WOMEN last year to study a national project of the Indian government for empowerment of women farmers. As a result of that research, these case studies capture five good practices in the domain of women in agriculture.
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 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.
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.
Based on quantitative insights gained from interviews of 504 women in 19 villages, in two states of India, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar (Landesa & UN Women, 2012), this paper explores the structure of constraints to women’s rights to land.
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.