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Landesa - Land Rights 101
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The Case for Land Rights
2The Case for Land Rights
3The Case for Land Rights
4The Case for Land Rights
Why Do Secure Land Rights Matter?
Landlessness is one of the best predictors of poverty
In rural India,15 million extremely poor families are
landless
Traditional poverty alleviation efforts
(micro-credit, education) largely bypass landless
poor
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Why do Secure Land Rights Matter?
Control over the land you farm leads to economic opportunity
When the land you till belongs to you, your individual and
family assets increase
Macro economic growth across
whole communities and countries
bypass landless poor
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Why do Secure Land Rights Matter?
Weak land rights facilitate “land grabs”
Without legal rights, poor rural families are at risk for land grabbing
and displacement, making them more vulnerable to extreme poverty
and malnourishment.
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Why do Secure Land Rights Matter?
Women can be empowered through land rights
Women produce a majority of food in
the developing world, yet rarely
own their own land
When women and girls have land rights, health, education and
earning power all improve
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What’s Preventing 1 Billion People from Having Secure Land Rights?
Inadequate legal
framework
Lack of expertise or will to
implement an existing framework
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What Effective Land Rights Look Like
• Legally and socially recognized
• Well-defined
• Enforceable
• Long-term
• Transferrable
• Withstand changes in the structure of families and communities
• Equal for women and men
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Impact of Land Rights for FamiliesLegal rights to land helps break generational poverty cycles
Improved health and nutrition
Increases access to credit
Lower birth rates
Increased productivity and investment
Bolsters status and empowerment, especially for women
Enables greater access to education
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Impact of Land Rights for SocietiesLand helps unlock the power of the market
Stronger economic
growth
Regional and national security
Gains in health and education
Less conflict
Environmental stewardship
Increased food production
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40 Years. 40 Countries. 400 Million People Benefited.
Landesa’s Work
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Landesa’s Approach
Assist• Invited to assist• Research problems, in
coordination with local officials
• Develop specific solutions
• Policy assistance
Implement• Partner with
governments• Develop and scale pilots• Legal aid and
awareness• Training
Monitor and Evaluate• Initial diagnostic
assessments in the field• Track govt
implementation• Evaluate outcomes for
families
Throughout our work, we advocate for and champion the cause of land rights as a key lever to alleviate extreme rural poverty within
the international development sector.
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What Makes Landesa’s Work Distinctive and Effective
Women
Economic Opportunity
Structural Change
Durable
Security
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Case Study: China
In the past 30 years the greatest poverty reduction success in human history has occurred in China.
What was driver? Rural land rights reform in early 1980s.
> 300 million rural Chinese pulled themselves out of poverty in first six years after land rights reform.
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Case Study: Microplots
Background• A microplot is a plot of land often the
size of a tennis court owned by a family
• Through decades of research, Landesa determined that a family could climb out of poverty on 1/10th of an acre of land.
• Landesa and its partners have distributed microplots to families in:
2010 – 124,000 in India 2011 – 129,000 in India;
1,500 in Pakistan
Advantages of a smaller sizeScalable: Government can purchase and distribute land to more families
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Benefits of microplots• Sustainable model• Improved nutrition• Supplemental income• Asset against shocks• Status• Access to public services,
especially education• Better environmental
stewardship• Scalable
Microplot given to Naleswar and Mamata of Dorko Village in West Bengal, India.
Case Study: Microplots
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Our Strategic Goal:
20 Million More Families with Legal Rights to Land by 2015
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Our Strategy and Focus
• Microplots, tenancy reform, legal aid• Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, OdishaIndia
• Partnership with national government on policy reform
• 30-year land tenancy provisions have reached 200 million families
China
• Projects underway in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia, Liberia, Ghana and MaliSub-Saharan Africa
• Landesa Center for Women’s Land RightsWomen and Girls
• Using our voice to increase awareness and action among international development expertsAdvocacy
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Advocacy
New Opportunities
Women’s Land Rights
• Implementation of Women’s Land Rights Centre in Odisha, India
India• Expand micro
land ownership in three states
China• Establish a Land
Registration Pilot project
• Grow existing research capabilities around 17 province survey
Africa• Rwanda Land
Tenure Regularization Program
• Establish Landesa office (likely Uganda)
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Thank You