Seattle-based Landesa, a land-rights advocacy organization launched during the Vietnam War by an activist attorney whose efforts won him opprobrium…
Land. A plot of it to call our own. That’s what we all want, isn’t it? On this week’s podcast,…
Here’s the plan. China wants to move 250,000,000 people out of its rural areas and into cities within the next…
There is a direct link between land rights and land grabs, says the IMF. Countries with better governance and land rights laws are less likely to agee to large-scale land purchases by foreign investors. That makes sense, but the additional claim that smallholder land ownership directly increases family farm productivity and income is now coming under question.
The Seattle Times, with support from The Seattle International Foundation (also one of my primary funders), has produced a beautiful…
In case you haven’t been following the comment thread on my earlier post regarding the Top 100 NGOs as identified…
Aid organizations are trying to call attention to a little-noticed but massive plague spreading across Africa that is destroying communities,…
The ongoing trend of foreign investors purchasing massive tracts of land in poor countries isn’t getting much media attention in…
Roy Prosterman might, on first glance, suggest a kindly hobbit. The retired UW law professor is a friendly, gentle and…