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Securing land rights for the world’s poorest people"...
MISSION:
"Landesa works to secure land rights for the world’s poorest people– those 2.47 billion* chiefly rural people who live on less than two dollars a day. Landesa partners with developing country governments to design and implement laws, policies, and programs concerning land that provide opportunity, further economic growth, and promote social justice...
VISION:
We envision a world free of poverty. We see a future in which all who depend on land for their well-being have secure land rights – one of the most basic, powerful resources for lifting oneself and one’s family out of poverty...
WHY LAND RIGHTS MATTER:
Three-quarters of the world’s poorest people live in rural areas where land is a key asset.
Of those people, more than a billion lack legal rights over the land they use to survive, causing entrenched poverty cycles to persist over generations.
Efforts to help one landless family at a time are important. But Landesa works to advance durable land rights to bring transformational changes on a large scale. Secure land rights help create stable foundation for other important development work – like literacy, clean water, and nutrition – to take hold for generations...
