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Story of Sabitri Hikaka
Sabitri Hikaka is a single woman of Boriguda village in Rayagada district of Odisha. She lost her parents in her childhood. This incident brought all the responsibility of three siblings on to her shoulder. She toiled hard to meet her ends and remained unmarried to support her family. Sabitri’s uncles refused to share the ancestral property with Sabitri just because she was a woman.
Story of Rangkhung Village : Origin of a village and its coexistence with land
The land has always been an important component of development, especially for people in rural areas. There is no commodity more valuable than land and tribals are no exception. Control over land, however, may also be perceived less in terms of individual land ownership and more in terms of land use, or through what is known as land tenure. Different people in a family or community have different rights to access the land for different purposes and at different times.
The battle to get my own forest land has been going on since 2007….
In 2007, Shantben Makwana from Charada village of Santrampur block in Mahisagar District, did a Claim Application for Forest Land under The Forest Rights Act-2006 on the land, which her family has been cultivating for generations.
Resurgence of a Poduchuan village: The story of a Kondh Tribal journey of tenure security to holistic Development in Odisha
The trials of Poduchuan, a small Tribal village perched on foot hills of K.Singhpur in Rayagada District, for establishing their identity over their customarily managed forest and land was arduous yet rewarding. They hardly knew, when they left their village decades back and settled here making the serene forested landscapes their own, that they would have to prove their credentials to outsiders every time they used their ancestral lands.
Resurgence of Poduchuan Village: The story of a Kondh Tribal journey of tenure security to holistic Development in Odisha
Resurgence of a Poduchuan village: The story of a Kondh Tribal journey of tenure security to holistic Development in Odisha
The trials of Poduchuan, a small Tribal village perched on foot hills of K.Singhpur in Rayagada District, for establishing their identity over their customarily managed forest and land was arduous yet rewarding.
Slum Upgradation in Dhenkanal
Community partnership to ensure land tenure rights and infrastructural facilities to slum dwellers
To Take the Road Less Taken: Land Rights Open Up a Plethora of Empowering Opportunities for Lataben
Lataben, a feisty 36-year-old belongs to the Konjdi village of Mahuva block in Bhavnagar district in Gujarat. Belonging to the Kumbhar community, which officially comes under the “other backward caste category” in the region, she has been single-handedly raising her young kids ever since she lost her husband in 2014. Her grit and determination, as well as her self-reliance, can be understood the best by going back to her struggle for her land.
What art, culture and language teaches us about land governance in Africa
Ahead of the 2021 Conference on Land Policy in Africa (CLPA), taking place 1 - 4 November, the Land Portal spoke with three members of the organizing committee.
Dr. Rexford A. Ahene is a Professor of Economics at Lafayette College and the Chair of this year's Scientific Committee at the CLPA-2021.