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Discussion: Why Women’s Land Rights Matter for the Future of Farming

Join us on October 15 at Georgetown University for a discussion with leaders across agriculture, conservation, markets, land rights, and international development in celebration of the International Year of the Woman Farmer. Women are essential to food production and economies around the world, yet many still do not formally own or control the land they…

Correcting the Record: Improving Rwanda’s Land Records from the Ground Up

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Between 2009 and 2013, Rwanda undertook an extraordinary effort to map and register more than 11 million land parcels nationwide, bringing formal land rights to millions of people. However, land registration is not a one-time exercise. Boundaries change, land is inherited and transferred, and records can become incomplete or not reflect realities on the ground.…

What Climate Week 2026 Reinforced About Land Rights and Community Leadership

By Amy Coughenour Betancourt, CEO, Cadasta I returned from Climate Week NYC with renewed conviction that progress on climate depends on communities having the rights, resources, and authority to shape their own futures. Across the conversations our Cadasta team joined, the questions were practical: Who controls funding? What is holding up recognition of land rights?…

How Place-Based Data Is Helping Women Farmers Thrive

Celebrating the International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026 Women farmers are at the heart of global food systems. They cultivate crops, care for livestock, steward natural resources, and feed their families and communities. Yet millions continue to face insecure rights to the land they farm. The International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026 recognizes…

What Makes Impact Last: Cadasta at the Skoll World Forum

By Cadasta Staff This month, Skoll World Forum returns to Oxford at a time when the social impact sector is under real pressure to evolve. Across the sector, long-standing assumptions about funding, scale, and sustainability are being tested. Aid is tightening, expectations for accountability are rising, and many of the systems meant to support impact…

From Policy to Practice: Cadasta and the Jacobs Futura Foundation Partner to Advance Community Land Rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

By Cadasta Staff The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is entering a pivotal moment for community land rights. In July 2025, the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed into law new land use planning legislation,Law No. 25/045. This new law formally recognizes customary land rights within the country’s land use planning…

Participatory Mapping as an Impartial Intermediary

By Cadasta Staff Typical conflict resolution strategies often require a mediator. For Indigenous land-related conflicts and boundary validations, participatory mapping and technology can serve that role. Participatory mapping is a community-led process in which local people lead the creation of maps that combine spatial knowledge and lived experience. It is a locally led process, often…

From Recognition to Resilience: Land Rights and Sustainable Futures in Gujarat’s Forests

By: Leah Kellenberger Across 12 countries, Cadasta’s Strengthening Land and Forest Rights (SLFR) Program, funded by the UK International Development, from the UK government, is partnering with 13 organizations to advance secure land and forest rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities. This program aims to secure management or ownership rights for forest-dwelling communities, as…

Why Land Rights Are Women’s Rights

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Celebrating Women's Month By Cadasta Staff True gender equality is rooted not only in social and political rights, but in something far more fundamental: land. For millions of women around the world, land is the foundation of food security, economic stability, community leadership, and environmental stewardship. Despite women’s central role in sustaining families and ecosystems,…

Investing in Malawi’s Future: Sustainable Financing Recommendations for Land Services

In recent years, the Malawi Ministry of Lands has been making big strides in improving land governance. Improvements include passing the 2016 Customary Land Act, passing the 2022 Land Act Amendments, and receiving approval from the Office of the President's Cabinet of the decentralization of land services functional plan. All of these developments help contribute…

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