By: Shadrack Kavilu and Justus Wanzala
Date: 17 January 2017
Source: Reuters
When the Kenyan government announced five years ago that coal deposits had been found in the Mui Basin, a land of rolling hills and pristine forests east of Nairobi, local farmers hoped the discovery would help
Bhubaneswar, Aug 4: Odisha needs gender equitable land governance, according to a recent World Bank study. Despite numerous efforts towards protecting rights of women through pioneering state policy and programmes, women continue to be discriminated with regard to access and control over land in
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women in more than 90 countries still lack equal rights to own land, hurting food production and efforts to tackle poverty, Rwanda's former agriculture minister said.
By: Annie Gowen
Date: September 29th 2016
Source: The Washington Post
INDIA’S DIVIDE | This is part of a series about oppression and violence against women in India as a rising generation collides with old social mores.
The World Bank is pleased to invite abstract submissions for the 17th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty from March 14 to 18, 2016 in Washington D.C. under the theme of
Scaling up Responsible Land Governance: Examples, policies, and impact
By: Isis Almeida
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Bloomberg Business
Lower social status mean women get less food in many countries
Women are responsible for more than 50% of global food output
Women account for 70 percent of the world’s hungry even as they produce more than half of the
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: 13 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Getting rid of mines in Colombia - a land of mountains and jungle terrain - is a key challenge facing the battered nation and is a crucial for rural development and tackling poverty.
It's a task experts estimate
Date: October 12th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Observer
A research report released in Monrovia over the weekend by Natural Resources Women's Platform (NRWP), the Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD), and Green Advocates International (GAI) with support from US based Rights and Resources
Women’s groups led by the National Federation of Peasant Women (Amihan) stormed the office of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Quezon City on the International Day of Rural Women, Oct. 15, to protest poverty, hunger and landlessness.
The groups then proceeded to Manila and brought their
By: Paola Totaro
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One in five people worldwide report having paid a bribe for land, with rates even higher in sub-Saharan Africa where women say they are forced to trade sex for property rights,
By: Kamanthi Wickramasinghe
Date: November 2nd 2016
Source: Daily Mirror
The law relating to land rights and land contracts in Sri Lanka have been embedded in a complex web of statutes that existed since the year 1863. This was during the colonial rule, a period in which the patriarchal system