Maasai Elders Vow to Protect and Support Rights of Women and Girls
JUNE 12, 2012 -- Dozens Maasai elders in the Kenyan highlands – who serve as symbols and enforcers of their community’s conservative cultural traditions -- have vowed to uphold an entirely new tradition: equal rights for women and girls.
Pioneering Women’s Support Centers announced in Ganjam to focus on land rights
In a pioneering step to support single women who have not been reached by land entitlement and social security schemes, on May 18, 2012, Odisha’s Ganjam District Administration launched a comprehensive program on Land Rights for Women through Women Support Centers (WSC) across the district.
Al Jazeera publishes Landesa editorial on malnutrition in India
May 11, 2012 -- Landesa's program directors in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha write on a possible solution to rampant malnutrition in the country. One in every three malnourished children in the world live in India. The authors make the case that putting land in the hands of women could be a solution.
Paralegals in Andhra Pradesh bring land and food security to tribal families
It was a deal struck almost 40 years ago by a poor, illiterate farmer, driven by desperation after a drought wiped out his crops and left his family close to starvation.
AlertNet Q&A with Landesa CEO Tim Hanstad
May 4, 2012 -- As part of Thomson-Reuters' special report on AlertNet called Solutions for a Hungry World, Astrid Zweynert interviewed Tim Hanstad on the role land rights play in addressing food security, how Rwanda and China are dealing with the issue, and how the larger aid community is effected by the level of land rights in the communities where they work.