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4 March 2021
Secure land and resource rights are critical for household wellbeing and livelihoods in many developing countries, where land is the principal asset for the rural poor. Despite women’s vital role in food production, they are less likely than men to own and control land. Forty percent of the world’s…
29 December 2020
La capital se mantiene como epicentro de las protestas contra la supresión del precio mínimo de los cereales
Jordi Joan Banos
El paro no ha sido general en India, pero el mensaje ha llegado alto y claro a Nueva Delhi. Los pequeños propietarios agrícolas del Panyab y Haryana, al noroeste de la…
16 November 2020
Last month, India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, issued the first 0.1 million Rural Property Cards (RPCs) to communities across more than 763 villages in six states in rural India under the SVAMITVA scheme. The ambitious scheme, a collaborative project involving federal, state and local governing…
7 October 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world abruptly, affecting nearly all of humanity with breath-taking speed. At the time of writing in mid-September 2020, almost 20 million people have contracted the disease and more than 900,000 have died.[1] Besides its tragic direct toll on human lives, the…
With a historic legal decision, India marks progress toward equal inheritance rights for daughters ()
21 August 2020
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of India last week ruled that daughters shall enjoy equal rights to inherit family land – an overdue and welcome shift toward greater equality for India’s women.
The Court’s decision provided much-needed clarity on the scope of equal inheritance rights…
1 July 2020
Covid-19 pandemic has further worsened India’s hunger and malnutrition woes, more so for the millions of informal workers, now struggling to meet two ends in their rural homes, post the mass migration from their place of works, during lockdowns. Their embedded informality over labour, land,…
29 June 2020
The land use change has been recognized as a major factor associated with the emergence of zoonotic diseases (diseases transmitted from animals) such as COVID-19. Various documentations on zoonotic outbreaks worldwide have found that the richness of the biodiversity works as a buffer against…
4 June 2020
The 21st century is seeing the impacts of modernisation of the previous century. The most apparent impact is climate change.
Land is intertwined with the human trajectory and powers of access to land come from social, political or other kinds of dominance, writes Nikita Sud in this commentary.
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Community participation will be essential to the success of India’s rural property mapping effort ()
22 May 2020
The Government of India has announced an ambitious effort to map residential areas in villages using drone technology and provide “property cards” to these rural owners. In its first phase, the Svamitva (“Ownership”) scheme will map 100,000 villages in six states, with the scheme ultimately…
14 May 2020
COVID-19 refugees rushing back home, rural population in India, as elsewhere in the developing countries and emerging economies, is fast swelling up and suddenly it has become the new sink of labour, with cities and new-economies emptied up their workers. Corona lockdown has witnessed one of…
1 May 2020
Informal workers and desperate journeys
‘Corona lockdown’ led to one of the biggest migrations in India’s modern history. Hungry, thirsty and hapless- millions of migrant workers who form the backbone of our glittering megacities- took to the road, on desperate journeys home. These migrant…