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25 November 2021
Day one of the 5th India Land & Development Conference was commemorated as ‘Asia Day’, a south-south knowledge-sharing and learning event. The fifth India Land and Development Conference (IDLC) is being held from November 21 to 25 this year. Asia Day witnessed seven sessions and a plenary,…
17 November 2021
The good governance of land is critical to the pursuit of sustainable development. Given that the land sector is often considered to be susceptible to corruption, open and transparent land data is seen as an opportunity to fight corruption. Following global trends, the land sector is…
13 September 2021
How much land matters to each of us as citizens, students and faculties, and how much we know about them? Is it too complex to ignore, something that matters to us as property, identity or even as a stratum of lives and base of development, to a handful of bureaucrats, lawyers or surveyors?
Here…
5 July 2021
In the second PhD session of the LANDac Conference 2021, three PhD researchers presented their work in progress. We learned about slums in Abuja, Nigeria, about forest rights in India, and about the relation between inequalities in soil fertility, gender, and access to subsidies. Each presentation…
27 May 2021
By: Thais Bessa, gender advisor at Integrated Land and Resource Governance (ILRG).
Purnima Kora is an ambitious farmer. She owns two small parcels of land that she purchased with her husband’s support and years of savings she earned from farming PepsiCo potatoes and rice, as well as by…
8 May 2021
The day I first met Dr. Tajamul Haque, I did not realize I was meeting the man who would change the trajectory of tens of millions of lives across India – and my own.
It was 1999 -- a hot, muggy April day in Kolkata. Roy Prosterman – my former professor, mentor, and Landesa co-founder – and I…
8 May 2021
In Dr. Tajamul Haque’s untimely demise on 2nd May, India has lost a scholar policy maker, a champion of the causes of farmers, tribal, an advocate of land rights for women and dalits and a messiah for marginal farmers and tenants. With his departure, farmers lost a tireless, fearless advocate at…
2 April 2021
Por Archana Prasad
Archana Prasad habla con Capire sobre el trabajo y la vida de las mujeres en la India y las luchas contra el poder corporativo y las políticas derechistas
Archana Prasad es docente del Centro de Estudios sobre el Trabajo y el Sector Informal de la Universidad Jawaharlal Nehru…
30 March 2021
No mês passado, um ex-ministro do governo do Zimbábue foi preso por venda ilegal de terrenos públicos. Alguns dias depois, um tribunal da Malásia condenou por corrupção o ex-presidente de uma agência de desenvolvimento agrário de terras públicas. E, em janeiro, o governo da Estônia desmoronou em…
17 March 2021
National datasets differ on women's land rights because they use different criteria in their calculations.
Bhubaneswar: There are wide variations in national datasets on women's land ownership in India depending on which agency made the estimate, frustrating efforts to design and implement…
8 March 2021
In Jharkhand, eastern India, women are not entitled to own land and accusations of witchcraft are wielded against them to silence their claims to land
When Talabitti’s husband died in 2016, her claim to the family land seemed to die with him. Though her husband had worked the family land by himself…
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…