The Santa Barbara People's Coalition
Produces events and activities, facilitates communication and coordination, and provides resources and information to enable people to work toward the common goal of social and economic justice in a democratic, peaceful, and sustainable world economy.
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Created: May 14, 2009
Updated: Sep 22, 2009
Membership: Open
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Secure Land Rights to Help Women Achieve Food Security, Escape Poverty
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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