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Want to change the world? Give women land rights

By Kame Westerman

October 14, 2016

More women than ever are growing the world’s food — yet men continue to make most land-use decisions.

Portrait of a woman in the village of Ayukre. Brazil, Kayapo Indians, Xingu region

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What on Earth is ‘land tenure’?

By Bruno Vander Velde

October 6, 2016

The concept of land tenure has major implications for conservation.