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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By Yuliya Panfil, Omidyar Network
One in four people are worried about losing their home against their will in the next five years, according to a nine-country Gallup-led survey on people’s perceptions of their property rights. The survey, which polled 11,000 people across Peru, Colombia, Brazil…
By Lewis Evans, Survival International
For Earth Day (April 22), Survival International reveals some of the amazing ways in which tribal peoples are the best conservationists and guardians of the natural world:
1. The Baka “Pygmies” have over 15 words for elephant
The Baka people know so…
By Madhu Sarin, Fellow of the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)
Q: What is required to strengthen women’s land and community forest rights in practice in India?
Women in India, particularly rural women, face enormous challenges in getting their collective land and resource rights…
Date: 15 décembre 2017
Source: Farmlandgrab
L’Anywaa Survival Organisation, l’Ethiopian Anuak Development Foundation et l’Anuak Community Association in North America, forts du soutien de la société civile internationale et des leaders de la communauté anuak du monde entier, exhortent les…