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Created: Feb 11, 2008
Updated: Nov 25, 2009
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Secure Land Rights to Help Women Achieve Food Security, Escape Poverty
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Sustainable Communities | Gender Equality | Environmental Justice | Environmental Health | Environmental Education | Women's Empowerment | Women's Economic Development | Women's Education | Women's Safety from Violence | Women's Health | Women's Rights | Environmental Law and Policy | Women and the Environment
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The Rural Development Institute (RDI), an international non-profit working to secure land rights for the world’s rural poor, has received a $6.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its “micro-land ownership” program in India to help landless women and their families achieve food security and escape poverty through access to agricultural services on land as small as 1/10th of an acre.
to read more, go to:
http://www.pnnonline.org/article.php?sid=8541&mode=thread&order=0