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22 Janeiro 2019
After dedicating 26 years to creating a harmonious balance between nature, humans and technology, social worker Snehlata Nath, still feels that it is just the beginning.
Recipient of the prestigious Jamnalal Bajaj Award for Application of Science and Technology for Rural Development in 2013, she…
15 Janeiro 2019
Of late, land has increasingly been figuring into the development sector, for both positive and negative reasons. Land rights champions, in particular, as well as development communities in general, are now seeing the signs of a global land rights revolution brewing. More inclusive development is…
12 Dezembro 2018
Thousands of farmers from across India will march to the parliament in New Delhi on November 30, to demand action on the deepening agrarian crisis that has left a trail of heavy debts and suicide in its wake.
More than 300,000 farmers have killed themselves over the last 20 years – the…
17 Outubro 2018
Until today, the world had no internationally comparable data on citizens’ perceptions of the security their property rights; no way of tracking how people evaluated the likelihood of their home or other land being taken from them.
As of today, that changes: Prindex unveils the first wave of our…
28 Setembro 2018
In a saturated marketplace, food and beverage companies too often avoid addressing land rights issues.
There is no question that land is a fundamental asset for food and beverage companies growing and buying agricultural commodities in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. At the same time,…
4 Setembro 2018
Plantation workers in southern India are the unlikely subjects of a Tamil language film whose director said he wanted to draw attention to their struggles, which remain largely unchanged despite the country's fast economic growth.
"Merku Thodarchi Malai" (The Western Ghats), shows the daily lives…
14 Agosto 2018
Soumya Chattopadhyay takes a look at Prindex’s 2017 trial data from India, and raises questions to drive future research.
In October, Prindex will publish our first full tranche of data from 15 countries worldwide, and a total of 33 by the year’s end. While preparing our final survey, we conducted…
23 Fevereiro 2018
By Tim Hanstad, Co-Founder & Senior Advisor, Landesa
This is the first blog in a series of two that are based on a keynote address made at the 2018 India Land Development Conference.
I have been working on issues of land rights for more than 31 years in more than 22 countries, but no…
23 Fevereiro 2018
By Tim Hanstad, Co-Founder & Senior Advisor, Landesa
This is the second blog in a series of two that are based on a keynote address made at the 2018 India Land Development Conference.
In my experience living and working on land rights, I have identified eight land-related topics that…
24 Novembro 2014
Posted: 11/24/2014
Source: Huffington Post
By Tim Hanstad, President and CEO, Landesa
If we want to empower rural women in the developing world, there is no better first step than providing them with secure rights to land.
The reason is simple: developing world economies are agricultural…
This article originally appeared in Foreign Affairs.
By Tim Hanstad
India is among the world’s top producers of many things: milk, rice, sugarcane, and, as it happens, land reform legislation. Since India’s independence in 1947, volumes of laws and reforms have been aimed at addressing a…
Date: 26 mai 2016
Source: La Relève et la Peste
Habitant depuis des temps immémoriaux sur les pentes du Niyamgiri, dans l’état indien d’Odisha, la tribu Dongria Kondh a remporté une victoire qui n’est pas à la portée de tous : bouter la société d’exploitation minière Vedanta Resources hors de…