Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project

Last week, the GAAP team met at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the final technical workshop of the GAAP project. The group, which consisted of the grantees, project leaders, GAAP core members, and External Advisory Committee members, enjoyed the beautiful ILRI campus (including resident antelope!), strong Ethiopian coffee, >> Read more

The work of Landesa, one of the GAAP grantees, was recently highlighted in a New York Times article that explores landlessness and land reform in India. The article quotes Tim Hanstad, the president and chief executive of Landesa, who says, " The conventional wisdom had been that in order to provide meaningful benefits you’d need a full-size >> Read more

For rural women in Kenya, secure access to land rights doesn’t come easily. Though the current Kenyan constitution declares women equal to men when it comes to land, this right has not been fully realized in many areas. That’s why work done by the Seattle-based non-profit Landesa, and other organizations like it, is so important. Landesa >> Read more