Punjab's marginalised communities struggle for their right to cultivate common lands

People from the scheduled caste have once protested against big landlords who have taken control of fertile common lands and they are all set to …

A wrong righted: Chhattisgarh becomes first state to give farmers their land back

Chhattisgarh has set an example by returning land acquired forcefully from over 1,700 farmers for a steel plant. Can other states follow suit?

Going backward

As the Maratha community in Maharashtra finally gets 16 per cent reservation in government jobs and education, Down To Earth profiles other …

“Aboriginal people in Australia still do not have right over their land”

Poet and writer ALI COBBY ECKERMANN was in India recently to launch her memoir, Too Afraid To Cry. The book is an account of her growing up as a …

Land for ladies

Rural women in Uttar Pradesh join hands to end gender bias in agriculture and claim joint ownership of land

Defeminisation of Indian agriculture

While reorganising land rights for rural women may be an arduous and long-drawn task, alternative solutions can be adopted

Is Rally for Rivers based on impractical ideas?

Isha Foundation's Rally for Rivers initiative to plant trees alongside river banks appears impractical and lacks scientific rigour

India fails to protect property rights of indigenous and rural women, says report

None of the 30 low and middle-income countries analysed met the standards of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination …

People of no land

Jharkhand's decision to allow the use of tribal land for non-agricultural purposes could lead to mass displacement

Latin America, the most unequal region of the world in land distribution

Economic elites use their clout to influence regulatory decisions to serve their interest by either funding political parties or controlling the media

Land grabbing intensity doubled in last four years, says report

Land deals primarily target areas previously used for agriculture, which increases competition for land and the potential for conflicts

Kenya enacts law to give land titles to marginalised communities

The Community Land Bill lays down steps for communities to acquire titles to their ancestral land

Indigenous people in India and the web of indifference

On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we bring together the stories of exclusion, oppression, and at times, recognition

126 ‘land deals’ backfired; most of them in Africa: GRAIN report

The failed investments involved acquisition of agricultural lands ranging from 1,000 hectares to 1.5 million hectares.

Chhattisgarh cancels forest rights of tribals in Surguja

Activists claim the move was in response to the tribals’ protest against mining in their forest

Baigas get home

The vulnerable tribe in Madhya Pradesh is the first to get habitat rights in India. It is a landmark in the forests rights movement

Battle over oil, coal & forests

News 360° - Briefs

News 360° - Briefs

News 360° - Briefs

Possessed by land

Landholding can affect marital prospects. It can also affect sex ratios and lead to polyandry. A village in Alwar provides a snapshot

Outsiders in their own land

Gujarat government eyes limestone underneath land cultivated by Sikh farmers, curbs their ownership rights

Disowned 100,000

Taungyas have lived in Uttar Pradesh for decades but law does not recognise them. FRA gives hope

Bending rules

How Vedanta's refinery came up

Is it a forest?

How different agencies see it