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8 February 2017
By: Utpal Parashar  Date: 8 February 2017 Source: Hindustan times Nagaland has been on the boil for two weeks now over municipal elections that were to be held on February 1.
3 February 2017
By: Anastasia Moloney Date: 3 February 2017 Source: Reuters Across Latin America just one percent of farms and estates control more than half of the region's productive land. Giving women access to land in Guatemala is key to forging lasting peace and tackling inequality, Nobel peace
2 February 2017
By: Nellie Peyton Date: 1 February 2017 Source: Manitoba Co-Operator Female-led work is vital to rural communities in Senegal — now women are organizing 
to lead the fight against multinational agribusiness.
30 January 2017
By: Soumaila Diarra Date: 30 January 2017 Source: Reuters W earing a long white tunic covered with bright-coloured patterns, Aminata Berthe bends to water a plot of lettuce with a can in this village near Bamako, the Malian capital.
27 January 2017
By:Malva Izquierdo Date: 27 January 2017 Source: Reuters Three decades after Nicaragua launched the first of many reforms aimed at giving women equal land rights, experts say rural women remain exploited and open to disinheritance, violence and abuse.
27 January 2017
By: Shikha Sreenivas Date: 21 January 2017 Source: The Ladies Finger 
20 January 2017
By: Paola Totaro Date: 20 January 2017 Source: Reuters Kosovo is to revolutionise its land laws and will, for the first time, clearly define formal ownership and encourage women to inherit and own land in their own right.
28 June 2016
By: Kathryn Bryant Date: June 10th 2016 Source: FoodTank Hilal Elver, the third person to hold the position of Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, is a law professor and globally distinguished fellow at UCLA Law School's Resnick Food Law and Policy Center.
28 June 2016
By: Melany Grout Date: 28 June 2016 Source: News Deeply More than 400 million women around the globe are farmers, but many have no rights to the land they till. Securing those rights is crucial if the world wants to reach its development goals, writes land tenure specialist Melany Grout.
12 December 2015
By: Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava Hindustan Times, New Delhi Updated: Dec 12, 2015  India witnessed an impressive surge in the number of women owning or managing agricultural land in 2001-11 with landholdings under them registering a faster growth in this period than the ones controlled by men, shows
12 December 2014
Source: iied By Eric Yeboah   Land rights play a crucial role in agricultural development and inclusive growth, but in many countries in Africa, women lose out from patriarchal legal and cultural traditions. How can these practices be changed to benefit everyone?

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