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Enhancing Women's Land Tenure Security and Access to Agricultural Services : 7 Cases from India

4 March 2021

India

Documented as part of the World Bank study Land Policy Reform for Agricultural Transformation in India by NRMC Centre for Land Governance, this series of case studies analyzes recent interventions by government and non-government organizations to secure land tenure rights for poor farmers—especially the landless, tenants and women, resulting in increased access to agricultural land, ma

Blogs

Why food production hinges on women

17 October 2020

Authors:

Rowshan Jahan Moni

Bangladesh

Landless women should be recognized as farmers, and given their due tenurial rights

“Small farmers feed the world” -- does this make any sense to us? If it does, then what is the paradigm shift and what has it done, or is trying to do differently, to uphold and promote this hard truth?

Eight land-related topics that need to be prioritized and urgently addressed in India

23 February 2018

Authors:

Mr. Tim Hanstad

India

In my experience living and working on land rights, I have identified eight land-related topics that need to be prioritized and urgently addressed in India. These must be addressed no only by government at both the national and especially the state level, but also by civil society, researchers, and donors.

Achieving SDGs through land rights (tenure security) for women

Authors:

Ms. Mary Ndaro

Tanzania

Land in Tanzania is a scarce resource without which life cannot be sustained (FAO, 2007), and it is “increasingly recognized as an important governance issue” around the global (Palmer et al., 2009, p.1). Hundreds of millions of people including farmers, herders, forest dwellers and agro-industries all rely on land resources for their survival.

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Discussions

Online Discussion: Land Rights Implications of COVID-19

Closed

3 June 2020 to 24 June 2020

Facilitators:

Mr. Alexandre Corriveau-Bourque

Yuliya Panfil

Ms. Karol Boudreaux

Mr. Neil Sorensen

Miss Chantal Wieckardt

Partners:

Landesa - Rural Development Institute

Land Portal Foundation

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

New America

Environmental Peacebuilding

LANDac

Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility

Cadasta Foundation

Global

Land, Housing, and COVID-19

What can we do to achieve sustainable pro-poor land reform in South Africa?

Closed

19 November 2018 to 7 December 2018

Facilitators:

Dr. Rick de Satgé

Partners:

Phuhlisani NPC

Land Portal Foundation

South Africa

In February 2018, South Africa’s National Assembly passed a resolution to establish an ad hoc Constitutional Review Committee to explore and debate the need for a constitutional amendment to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation in the public interest.

"Are land rights human rights?" Online debate on the Human Rights Day -10th December 2011

Closed

17 November 2011 to 20 January 2012

Global

Française ci-dessous / Castellano abajo

Dear Friends in Solidarity,

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Strategic Litigation Impacts: Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights

Reports & Research

April 2017

Global

The world is increasingly encroaching on indigenous peoples’ traditional lands. Around the globe, indigenous communities are forced to cede ground to state development, corporate land grabs, rising sea levels, environmental degradation, and population growth. The right to land provides the basis for access to food, housing, and development.

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Organizations

Community Development Association (CDA)

Community Development Association (CDA) is a highly secular, non-partisan-non-Government Development Organization (NGDO) established in the year 1985-1986 in North Western Part of Bangladesh CDA gradually has been shifted its strategic position from charity to a Right based Organization now facilitating among the poorest, landless and marginal farmers along with the plain land indigenous people (IP) including the differently able men, women &youth with a view to empower, ensure and secure access to land Rights from its inception.

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