Rural women suffer double discrimination because they are female and poor. Though women are the b... more Rural women suffer double discrimination because they are female and poor. Though women are the biggest food producers, they earn only one-tenth of the world's income and own less than 1% of the world's land. The Government of India has tried to provide land to women, but with limited results. The Government of Odisha, with the support of Landesa, developed a pilot program to identify vulnerable landless women and provide them with secure rights to land. The government and Landesa designed a pilot operating from the sub-district land administration office to implement a village household inventory identifying single women such as widows and abandoned women. The pilot also developed the capacities of government officials involved in implementation. As a result of the pilot, the government identified several legal and procedural hurdles to ensuring single women could access land of their own. The pilot has now been scaled to the entire district where out of 300,000 households, close to 15% will be eligible to get land from the government. Considering how this innovative pilot is shaping, the government is keen to scale it further to the entire state, which would mean close to 500,000 single women would get land.
Sal seeds could provide effective livelihoods support for poor people when few alternative natura... more Sal seeds could provide effective livelihoods support for poor people when few alternative natural resource based strategies are available
Sal seeds could provide effective livelihoods support for poor people when few alternative natura... more Sal seeds could provide effective livelihoods support for poor people when few alternative natural resource based strategies are available
International Association for the Study of …, 2008
... Earlier these families were booked under forest encroachment cases by the forest department. ... more ... Earlier these families were booked under forest encroachment cases by the forest department. ... and assured the villagers that no such plantation would take place till the forest rights determination process ... This Act among other things has brought once again into fore an age old ...
The European Union and the Dutch government are supporting this work. The contents of this docume... more The European Union and the Dutch government are supporting this work. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of the authors and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union or other supporters.
Rural women suffer double discrimination because they are female and poor. Though women are the b... more Rural women suffer double discrimination because they are female and poor. Though women are the biggest food producers, they earn only one-tenth of the world's income and own less than 1% of the world's land. The Government of India has tried to provide land to women, but with limited results. The Government of Odisha, with the support of Landesa, developed a pilot program to identify vulnerable landless women and provide them with secure rights to land. The government and Landesa designed a pilot operating from the sub-district land administration office to implement a village household inventory identifying single women such as widows and abandoned women. The pilot also developed the capacities of government officials involved in implementation. As a result of the pilot, the government identified several legal and procedural hurdles to ensuring single women could access land of their own. The pilot has now been scaled to the entire district where out of 300,000 households, close to 15% will be eligible to get land from the government. Considering how this innovative pilot is shaping, the government is keen to scale it further to the entire state, which would mean close to 500,000 single women would get land.
Rural women suffer double discrimination because they are female and poor. Though women are the b... more Rural women suffer double discrimination because they are female and poor. Though women are the biggest food producers, they earn only one-tenth of the world's income and own less than 1% of the world's land. The Government of India has tried to provide land to women, but with limited results. The Government of Odisha, with the support of Landesa, developed a pilot program to identify vulnerable landless women and provide them with secure rights to land. The government and Landesa designed a pilot operating from the sub-district land administration office to implement a village household inventory identifying single women such as widows and abandoned women. The pilot also developed the capacities of government officials involved in implementation. As a result of the pilot, the government identified several legal and procedural hurdles to ensuring single women could access land of their own. The pilot has now been scaled to the entire district where out of 300,000 households, close to 15% will be eligible to get land from the government. Considering how this innovative pilot is shaping, the government is keen to scale it further to the entire state, which would mean close to 500,000 single women would get land.
Sal seeds could provide effective livelihoods support for poor people when few alternative natura... more Sal seeds could provide effective livelihoods support for poor people when few alternative natural resource based strategies are available
Sal seeds could provide effective livelihoods support for poor people when few alternative natura... more Sal seeds could provide effective livelihoods support for poor people when few alternative natural resource based strategies are available
International Association for the Study of …, 2008
... Earlier these families were booked under forest encroachment cases by the forest department. ... more ... Earlier these families were booked under forest encroachment cases by the forest department. ... and assured the villagers that no such plantation would take place till the forest rights determination process ... This Act among other things has brought once again into fore an age old ...
The European Union and the Dutch government are supporting this work. The contents of this docume... more The European Union and the Dutch government are supporting this work. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of the authors and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union or other supporters.
Rural women suffer double discrimination because they are female and poor. Though women are the b... more Rural women suffer double discrimination because they are female and poor. Though women are the biggest food producers, they earn only one-tenth of the world's income and own less than 1% of the world's land. The Government of India has tried to provide land to women, but with limited results. The Government of Odisha, with the support of Landesa, developed a pilot program to identify vulnerable landless women and provide them with secure rights to land. The government and Landesa designed a pilot operating from the sub-district land administration office to implement a village household inventory identifying single women such as widows and abandoned women. The pilot also developed the capacities of government officials involved in implementation. As a result of the pilot, the government identified several legal and procedural hurdles to ensuring single women could access land of their own. The pilot has now been scaled to the entire district where out of 300,000 households, close to 15% will be eligible to get land from the government. Considering how this innovative pilot is shaping, the government is keen to scale it further to the entire state, which would mean close to 500,000 single women would get land.
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