Legal Africa — Landesa was mentioned as a key player in organizing movements for women’s inheritance rights across Africa.
April 2025
The Guardian Tanzania — At CSW69, Landesa spotlighted women’s land rights as central to achieving gender equality, co-hosting key events and urging policy reforms, gender-responsive land use planning, and increased investment to secure land tenure for rural women across Africa.
Kompasiana — Plan Indonesia brought together 14 CSOs, including Landesa Indonesia, for a strategic dialogue with the Nagekeo Regency Government to strengthen collaboration on protecting women’s and children’s rights.
India Development Review — Landesa India’s Pinaki Halder spoke on a panel at the Responsible Renewable Energy Summit about what it would take to make renewable energy truly people-centric.
March 2025
News Agency of Nigeria — At the First African Women Land Professionals Associations Conference in Tanzania, land experts called for policy reforms to eliminate gender disparity and boost women’s leadership in land management. The event also launched a new network to coordinate action on women’s land rights across Africa.
New York Times — Seeing land rights as the key to lifting up the impoverished, Roy Prosterman pushed authoritarian governments as well as emerging democratic ones to distribute farmland.
CIFOR-ICRAF — Landesa helped organize a session at UNCCD COP16 on how to address the underlying barriers to women’s rights through gender transformative approaches, and the differences between reaching, benefiting, empowering and transformative change.
The Washington Post published a detailed account of Roy’s life and work to help lead a movement to secure land rights for impoverished people around the world.
Liberian Observer — Landesa, in collaboration with SDI, supported the Liberia Land Authority in issuing customary land deeds to six communities in River Cess County, advancing land rights and community ownership. Made possible through years of dedication, this milestone strengthens legal protections for rural communities who, from the formation of Liberia, have just been custodian of the land and not the owner.
Banking Finance — Banking Finance paid tribute to Roy Prosterman, founder and Chairman Emeritus of Landesa, highlighting his lifelong dedication to securing land rights for the world’s poorest. Prosterman’s visionary leadership and commitment to justice helped empower over 720 million people, shaping global land reform and social entrepreneurship.