As carbon markets take center stage, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ land and resource rights must be secured to protect people and planet. Landesa is uniquely positioned to do just that.
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Learn more about our project to strengthen and sustain the capacity of networked, women-driven civil society organizations in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Maldives to advance local climate resilience, effective advocacy at all levels of governance, and gender-equitable land rights.
Learn more about Landesa’s work on land rights to create a wave of impact, starting with people who have the least access to power and rippling outward to communities, to countries, and across the globe.
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.
The Land Rights for Sustainable Development project seeks to increase youth participation in land management discussions and build awareness of the importance of youth land rights to create opportunity.
Landlessness and land tenure insecurity among Africa’s youth hampers innovations and uptake of technology in the agriculture sector and limits youth economic empowerment.
Frequently in places where land governance is weak, collective land rights are not legally recognized or protected, contributing to conflict, tenure insecurity, and violations of recognized human rights.
Landesa’s Girls Project seizes upon an opportunity to help adolescent girls to build knowledge and establish a foundation of empowerment that can stay with them throughout adulthood.
Ensuring that women have secure rights to land is essential to addressing poverty, hunger and gender equality around the world.
Stronger land rights have been shown to spark growth in African economies.