Michael Taylor is the standing Director of the International Land Coalition (ILC), hosted by IFAD in Rome. His current work is dedicated to the promotion of secure and equitable access to and control over land for poor women and men through advocacy, dialogue and capacity building. For the past 15 years, he has worked on community-based natural resource management and land tenure questions for intergovernmental organizations, NGOs and government. Mr. Taylor holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh.
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Displaying 1 - 3 of 3Land Inequality Is a Crisis. Achieving Women’s Land Rights Is How We Respond.
Land. It is a commodity like no other. We live on it. We grow from it. We drink from it and build our futures upon it. But — increasingly and frighteningly so — we don’t share it equally.
The distribution of land has long defined the gap between rich and poor. Now new data shows clearer than ever how the way in which land is being shared and managed profoundly impacts extreme and rising inequality, and the achievement of women’s and girl’s rights.
To strengthen land rights, invest in local leadership
After decades of being the elephant in the room of global development, only now are we seeing increased recognition of land rights
Fred Nelson is executive director of Maliasili and Michael Taylor is director of International Land Coalition
Land rights have finally been invited to the party - sitting at the intersection of some of the world’s most urgent development, environmental, and human rights priorities.