CLG Discussions & Blogs

Webinar: 8-July-2021 The Digitization of Land Records: A Panacea for Land Conflicts? Click here to view on youtube PODCAST:Why Do Women Farmers Still Lack Access to Agricultural Land Ownership? Click ...
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ILDC 2020 was successfully organized at IIC-New Delhi 02-04, March 2020 Institution, Innovations & Information for Improved Land Governance & Inclusive Land Tenure Security  Ten land messages from ILDC2020 that ...
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Conference Announcement for  : 1st North-East Land Conference ( NELandCon 2020 ) Venue: MLCU, Shillong, Meghalaya. Dates: January 30-31, 2020 The Land Conference in the North East India is a ...
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Land Governance and Development Venue: Azim Premji University, Bengaluru (Bangalore), India. Dates: June 20-25, 2022 The Summer School on “Land Governance and Development” introduces participants to the development and policy ...
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“When you are able to empower a woman, you are able to have a developed household, a developed community, a developed society, a developed country.”  With the help of Habitat ...
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“Women & children should never find themselves marginalized and exploited at the hands of a failed system.”  Bohlokoa Mokhotho , advocacy specialist in Habitat for Humanity Lesotho, shared her personal ...
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“Chitra is happy that she can give her children a chance to improve their future.”  Chitra lives with her husband Masilamani in the village of Keezahinjipattu, Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India ...
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“When the children have it good, the parents have it good,” Edik says. “When they are happy, we are happy.”  “The toys will go over here! Over on the window ...
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Women inspiring others to come up and fight for rights … JamibenRaghubhai is a resident of Lekhambha village. She has three daughters and her husband died 25 years ago. She ...
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Forest rights in forest village … “I always felt that, I would never ever have rights on these lands, though I have been cultivating them for more than three decades ...
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Women Land Rights gaining Strength among Hill Tribes… It was a balmy afternoon in B Taudaijang, a sleepy Rongmei Naga village in Tamenglong district in Manipur hills, cradled on a ...
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I have an identity of my own… Fate has not been kind to Gomati Harijan, a 40 year old childless widow. Along with poverty, she has partial blindness that restricts ...
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Patta has given me the courage to fight all odds… Kali’s life is an untold story of misery and deprivation. Undeterred by the challenges, Kali continues to fend for her seven ...
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Can the technological revolution prompt a land rights revolution: Mozambican land rights defenders are ready to find out In Mozambique, like in so many other parts of the world, a ...
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Community builds together.. Gopalpur is a small beach town on the southern border of Odisha in the Ganjam district. In this small town, about 500 metres away from sea, is ...
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A shared vision for a better neighborhood… Near Chandrabhaga beach in Konark, a small town in eastern part of Odisha is a slum called ‘Nolia Sahi’. About 1100 fishermen families ...
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With land, now I am able to provide two full meals to my children… Nestled in the small undulating hills of Nandagaon block is Khatalaput, a little community of 30 ...
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Not having access to the land is nothing but another form of violence against women… Yolanda is an Afro-Colombian, Activist, Community Leader, and Founder of Aso Manos Negra who has dedicated ...
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Bhoodan & Landesa transforming Dalit livelihoods in Bihar… In the Kohbari village at Vinobapuri Tola, located in Barachatty block of Gaya district, there are 35 beneficiaries including 33 women and ...
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A journey of a woman farm: From the farm to agripreneurship… Veenaben Bhoya is a 40 years old woman farmer from the village of Pipalkhed. She has two children, a ...
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Land has given a new meaning to my life… Budhubari lost her husband about six years ago. With three children to feed and no fixed source of income, she hardly ...
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Secure tenure on Hills transforming landscapes and livelihoods… Among the Kuki tribes of Manipur, the chieftainship system of land holding is still in practice. This system is subject to highly ...
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A window of securing land rights… Nurul Islam, a teacher by profession lived in a village called Bhatiyapara located in Chakla Union under Parnchagarh Sadar sub district. He inherited some ...
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The Vanita Shakti Mahila Sangathan (VSMS) is a community based organisation of more than 2500 women from the Dhanpur block of Dahod, a primarily tribal district in Gujarat. The Sangathan ...
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Shathi, daughter of Md Abdul Razzak, lives in the village of Hatiyadah located in the sub district of Singra within the larger Natore district. Her dream was to support the ...
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The present Ziumi which I live is like any typical village built on a lovely meadow. This is situated about 102 KMs from District Headquarter Senapati. The great ancestors of ...
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Inadequate laws and policies, patriarchal mindsets, an unwelcoming system, lack of mobility due to traditional patriarchal norms, and a dearth of information about laws, are just some of the main ...
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CLG’s effort to secure customary landrights of INDIGENOUS communities in Manipur hills continues, with focus on enabling local youth to use DGPS linked mobile application & integrate customary tenure. Mapping ...
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Women Land Rights : Whose land is it anyway: A gendered approach to land rights Introduction Secure and equitable rights over natural resources is globally seen as a precursor to ...
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