Landesa
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Landesa is a non-profit organization working to improve land rights
for impoverished farming families in developing countries. Landesa partners with governments and non-governmental organizations to ensure that the world’s poorest families have secure rights over the land they till. Founded as the Rural Development Institute in 1967, Landesa has helped more than 100 million poor families gain legal control over their land. Landesa currently works in 13 developing countries: Afghanistan
, Burkina Faso
, Burundi
, China
, Ethiopia
, Ghana
, India
, Kenya
, Liberia
, Mali
, Pakistan
, Rwanda
, and Uganda
.
and other prestigious awards, Landesa partners with governments, world leaders, NGOs, foundations, donor agencies such as the World Bank
, USAID, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and others to design and implement land laws, policies and programs that provide opportunity, further economic growth and promote social justice.
, a Harvard Law School
graduate who left his Wall Street career at Sullivan & Cromwell
to teach at the University of Washington
School of Law where he established the Law in Sustainable Development Program. Troubled by the escalating Vietnam War
, Prosterman recognized that secure land rights could provide the rural poor a place to grow food to feed their family and a foundation to raise themselves out of poverty without being forced to join the Viet Cong. His “land to the tiller” program led to a 30% increase in rice production, and an 80% decrease in Viet Cong recruitment.
, India
and post-conflict areas of Africa
with a focus on rural poor families and women’s land rights. Of the roughly 2.7 billion people in the world who live on less than $2/day, 75% of them live in rural areas where agriculture is the main source of livelihood and land is a key asset. Women are responsible for 60-80% of the world’s food production, yet, in many countries, they cannot inherit or own land.
Landesa’s “micro-land ownership” program in India
provides landless families with a micro-plot as small as 1/10 of an acre on which they can build shelter, grow food to supplement the family diet and income, and raise livestock or start a micro-enterprise. Like the idea that started the “micro-credit” movement, “micro-land ownership” has the potential to provide opportunity for millions of the world’s poorest.
Landesa lawyers and land tenure specialists are experienced in crafting a variety of land law and land-related institutional reforms to help developing countries bring development and opportunity to their poorest. Upon the invitation of the host government, Landesa's staff conducts field assessments, institutional assessments, legislative drafting and policy advice. Landesa then provide assistance with implementing the new land laws, and can help organize pilot programs. Landesa has been involved - on five continents - with land administration consulting, social impact studies, implementation planning, implementation monitoring, training, public education programs, and program design and management. There are typically five primary elements to this work.
RDI employs a staff of more than 75 worldwide, including 23 senior land tenure specialists with legal, economic, gender and agricultural expertise, complemented by a professional staff with livelihood, natural resource management, economics, sociology, and other social science expertise. Landesa has offices in Seattle, Beijing, Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar, and Bangalore. Seattle-based support staff provide financial, IT, human resource, and administrative services to Landesa’s overseas programs and projects. Landesa also employs a team of research assistants who provide legal research and writing support.
Landesa land tenure specialists are experienced in carrying out research to inform land tenure reform efforts, crafting a variety of land law and land-related institutional reforms, and supporting implementation of those reforms. Our work focuses primarily on rural and peri-urban contexts in developing and transitional economies. Services include field assessments, institutional assessments, legislative drafting and policy advice, development of follow-on regulations and procedures, technical support for legal assistance, social impact studies, implementation planning, implementation monitoring, training, public education programs, and program design and management. There are typically five primary elements to this work.
An initiative of Landesa, the Center for Women’s Land Rights champions the untapped potential of women and girls to transform their communities. With secure rights to land, women and girls can improve food security, education, health, and economic development for themselves and their families. When women have secure rights to land, they can become investors in their family's future and ensure that their children's needs are met.
Studies have found that when women have secure rights to land:
In short, investing in a women's land rights creates an extraordinary ripple effect that spreads to her family, village, and beyond.
However, in much of the world, while women shoulder the burden of food production, they often don't have secure rights to the land they farm. Although they till the fields, they are often barred from inheriting or owning those fields.
To address these challenges and unite the global community in support of women’s land rights, the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights was launched in 2009. Landesa’s Center provides resources and training on women’s land rights and connects policymakers, researchers, and practitioners from around the world. Landesa’s Center pilots innovative solutions to women’s lack of secure land rights. It educates development experts about the gap between customary and institutional law and ensures that this is addressed in Landesa’s projects. Landesa’s Center ensures that women remain a core focus of Landesa’s work to help the poorest of the poor.
– Bill Gates, Sr. • Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
“Landesa is not only about fabulous stories about people changing their lives, Landesa is all about having a massive impact. Impacting indeed not tens of people or hundreds of people, but tens of millions of lives around the world.”
-Matt Bannick • Managing Partner, Omidyar Network
& Landesa Board Member
Land rights
Land law is the form of law that deals with the rights to use, alienate, or exclude others from land. In many jurisdictions, these species of property are referred to as real estate or real property, as distinct from personal property. Land use agreements, including renting, are an important...
for impoverished farming families in developing countries. Landesa partners with governments and non-governmental organizations to ensure that the world’s poorest families have secure rights over the land they till. Founded as the Rural Development Institute in 1967, Landesa has helped more than 100 million poor families gain legal control over their land. Landesa currently works in 13 developing countries: Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
, Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...
, Burundi
Burundi
Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi , is a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Its capital is Bujumbura...
, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
, Ghana
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
, Liberia
Liberia
Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open...
, Mali
Mali
Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
, Rwanda
Rwanda
Rwanda or , officially the Republic of Rwanda , is a country in central and eastern Africa with a population of approximately 11.4 million . Rwanda is located a few degrees south of the Equator, and is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
, and Uganda
Uganda
Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...
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Mission
Nominated for the Nobel PrizeNobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
and other prestigious awards, Landesa partners with governments, world leaders, NGOs, foundations, donor agencies such as the World Bank
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
, USAID, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and others to design and implement land laws, policies and programs that provide opportunity, further economic growth and promote social justice.
History
Landesa was founded as the Rural Development Institute in 1967 by Professor Roy ProstermanRoy Prosterman
Roy Prosterman is Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Washington and the founder of the Rural Development Institute , which changed its name to Landesa in January 2011. He is also active in the fields of land reform, rural development, and foreign aid...
, a Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...
graduate who left his Wall Street career at Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is an international law firm headquartered in New York. The firm has approximately 800 lawyers in 12 offices, located in financial centers in the United States, Asia, Australia and Europe. Sullivan & Cromwell was founded by Algernon Sydney Sullivan and William Nelson...
to teach at the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
School of Law where he established the Law in Sustainable Development Program. Troubled by the escalating Vietnam War
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
, Prosterman recognized that secure land rights could provide the rural poor a place to grow food to feed their family and a foundation to raise themselves out of poverty without being forced to join the Viet Cong. His “land to the tiller” program led to a 30% increase in rice production, and an 80% decrease in Viet Cong recruitment.
Offices
With an administrative office in Seattle, Landesa has program offices in Beijing, China; Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Kolkata, India.Landesa’s Work
Landesa has worked in more than 45 countries. Today, Landesa works in ChinaChina
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and post-conflict areas of Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
with a focus on rural poor families and women’s land rights. Of the roughly 2.7 billion people in the world who live on less than $2/day, 75% of them live in rural areas where agriculture is the main source of livelihood and land is a key asset. Women are responsible for 60-80% of the world’s food production, yet, in many countries, they cannot inherit or own land.
Landesa’s “micro-land ownership” program in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
provides landless families with a micro-plot as small as 1/10 of an acre on which they can build shelter, grow food to supplement the family diet and income, and raise livestock or start a micro-enterprise. Like the idea that started the “micro-credit” movement, “micro-land ownership” has the potential to provide opportunity for millions of the world’s poorest.
Securing Land Rights
For more than four decades, Landesa has championed the power of land rights as the key to a better, safer world. Land is the single most important asset for most of the world’s poor. More than half of the world’s population lives in extreme poverty, surviving on $2 a day or less, and of those, more than 75 percent live in rural areas and rely on agriculture for their sustenance. Most do not have secure rights to land and therefore, limited opportunity to build a better future for themselves. Land in the developing world determines access to shelter, income, education, healthcare, plus economic and nutritional security. It is the single most important asset.Landesa lawyers and land tenure specialists are experienced in crafting a variety of land law and land-related institutional reforms to help developing countries bring development and opportunity to their poorest. Upon the invitation of the host government, Landesa's staff conducts field assessments, institutional assessments, legislative drafting and policy advice. Landesa then provide assistance with implementing the new land laws, and can help organize pilot programs. Landesa has been involved - on five continents - with land administration consulting, social impact studies, implementation planning, implementation monitoring, training, public education programs, and program design and management. There are typically five primary elements to this work.
- Field research to identify existing conditions and viable land law/regulations/policies and administration options.
- Development and review of laws and regulations that create and sustain land system programs.
- Promoting, planning, assisting in the adoption and implementation of, and providing financial support for the legal, institutional, and policy measures needed for successful land systems.
- Undertaking educational public awareness programs for professionals, government officials, and other system participants so that all stakeholders become aware of new land system laws and regulations and the rights and obligations created by them.
- Monitoring and evaluation of implementation and results so as to learn from successes and make changes when appropriate.
Consulting Services
Landesa’s fee-for-service practice focuses on the legal, policy, institutional, and educational issues of land tenure, land access, land market development, land conflicts, land acquisition and resettlement, and land registration systems.RDI employs a staff of more than 75 worldwide, including 23 senior land tenure specialists with legal, economic, gender and agricultural expertise, complemented by a professional staff with livelihood, natural resource management, economics, sociology, and other social science expertise. Landesa has offices in Seattle, Beijing, Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar, and Bangalore. Seattle-based support staff provide financial, IT, human resource, and administrative services to Landesa’s overseas programs and projects. Landesa also employs a team of research assistants who provide legal research and writing support.
Landesa land tenure specialists are experienced in carrying out research to inform land tenure reform efforts, crafting a variety of land law and land-related institutional reforms, and supporting implementation of those reforms. Our work focuses primarily on rural and peri-urban contexts in developing and transitional economies. Services include field assessments, institutional assessments, legislative drafting and policy advice, development of follow-on regulations and procedures, technical support for legal assistance, social impact studies, implementation planning, implementation monitoring, training, public education programs, and program design and management. There are typically five primary elements to this work.
Landesa Center for Women's Land Rights
According to the organization's website:An initiative of Landesa, the Center for Women’s Land Rights champions the untapped potential of women and girls to transform their communities. With secure rights to land, women and girls can improve food security, education, health, and economic development for themselves and their families. When women have secure rights to land, they can become investors in their family's future and ensure that their children's needs are met.
Studies have found that when women have secure rights to land:
- Family nutrition and health improve
- Women are less likely to contract and spread HIV/AIDS and are better able to cope with the effects of AIDS
- Women are less likely to be victims of domestic violence
- Children are more likely to get an education and stay in school longer
- Women may have better access to micro-credit
In short, investing in a women's land rights creates an extraordinary ripple effect that spreads to her family, village, and beyond.
However, in much of the world, while women shoulder the burden of food production, they often don't have secure rights to the land they farm. Although they till the fields, they are often barred from inheriting or owning those fields.
To address these challenges and unite the global community in support of women’s land rights, the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights was launched in 2009. Landesa’s Center provides resources and training on women’s land rights and connects policymakers, researchers, and practitioners from around the world. Landesa’s Center pilots innovative solutions to women’s lack of secure land rights. It educates development experts about the gap between customary and institutional law and ensures that this is addressed in Landesa’s projects. Landesa’s Center ensures that women remain a core focus of Landesa’s work to help the poorest of the poor.
Global Fellowship Program
Landesa's Global Fellowship Program provides training opportunities for qualified professionals seeking to pursue a career in helping to secure land and property rights for women and girls. The program is designed to provide a career path and specialized training opportunities for legal professionals in the U.S., experienced professionals in developing countries who could benefit from comparative experience, and experienced non-legal professionals from NGOs who seek comparative legal knowledge.e-Library on Women’s Property Rights
Landesa's Global Center for Women's Land Rights is building a database of formal laws related to women's land rights from every country in the world. This “e-library” will also include research on customary law related to women's land rights where available. The e-Library on women’s property rights will be an open-source platform, allowing users to share and post laws and related materials on how those laws are practiced thorough a discussion forum. The e-Library will be cross-referenced via topics (widows' rights, dowry, girls’ inheritance, etc.) as well as by countries and regions in a variety of languages.This helps legal practitioners and women's advocates create more effective and suitable programming.Girls and Land
Daughters do not traditionally inherit land, because they typically move away from the village to their husband’s home after marriage. Most girls leave their family homes with no economic asset of their own (such as land), leaving them vulnerable and powerless in their new homes. To address this, Landesa is working in partnership with its partners to help girls gain a critical economic asset—land—to reduce their vulnerability to poverty, gender-based violence, HIV, early marriage, and trafficking, and to gain opportunities for a better future.Awards and Honors
- (2009) Evergreen Award, Executive Alliance
- (2009) Telly Award (for film “Land is Hope), People’s Telly Awards
- (2008) Development Marketplace Award, World BankWorld BankThe World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
- (2008) Razoo Top 100 Nonprofits, Razoo
- (2008) Finalist, United Nations Public Service Award, United NationsUnited NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
- (2008) World Citizen of the Year, World Affairs CouncilWorld Affairs CouncilWorld Affairs Council may refer to:* World Affairs Councils of America, a non-profit, non-partisan umbrella organization for world affairs councils throughout the United States...
- (2007) Featured Commitment (Micro-land Ownership in India), Clinton Global Initiative, Clinton FoundationClinton FoundationThe William J. Clinton Foundation is a foundation established by former President of the United States Bill Clinton with the stated mission to "strengthen the capacity of people throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence." The Foundation focuses on four critical areas:...
- (2007) Featured Commitment (Center for Women and Land), Clinton Global Initiative, Clinton FoundationClinton FoundationThe William J. Clinton Foundation is a foundation established by former President of the United States Bill Clinton with the stated mission to "strengthen the capacity of people throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence." The Foundation focuses on four critical areas:...
- (2007) Finalist, Hilton Humanitarian Award, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
- (2007) Finalist, Alcan Prize for Sustainability, International Business Leaders Forum
- (2006) Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership, Henry R. Kravis Institute in Leadership, Claremont McKenna CollegeClaremont McKenna CollegeClaremont McKenna College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college and a member of the Claremont Colleges located in Claremont, California. The campus is located east of Downtown Los Angeles...
- (2003) Gleitsman International Award, Gleitsman Foundation
- (2002) Outstanding Global Social Entrepreneur, Schwab Foundation for Social EntrepreneurshipSchwab Foundation for Social EntrepreneurshipThe Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship provides platforms at the country, regional and global levels to promote social entrepreneurship.- History :...
- (1996) Courageous Award, Washington State Bar AssociationWashington State Bar AssociationThe Washington State Bar Association is the mandatory statewide bar association of Washington State. As an administrative arm of the Washington State Supreme Court, it administers the admissions, licensing, and discipline functions for lawyers licensed in Washington. It also acts as their...
- (1991) John and Marguerite Walker Corbally Professor in Public Service
- (1993) International Citizen of the Year, Seattle International District RotaryRotary InternationalRotary International is an organization of service clubs known as Rotary Clubs located all over the world. The stated purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help...
- (1990) Outstanding Public Service Award, University of WashingtonUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
- (1973) Ralph Bunche Award for Outstanding Contribution to World Peace through Law, Seattle-King County Bar Association.
Supporters
“The connection between ownership and productivity is a good idea for the way to run the world. The great success of Landesa is predicated upon that very simple proposition.”– Bill Gates, Sr. • Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. It is "driven by the interests and passions of the Gates family"...
“Landesa is not only about fabulous stories about people changing their lives, Landesa is all about having a massive impact. Impacting indeed not tens of people or hundreds of people, but tens of millions of lives around the world.”
-Matt Bannick • Managing Partner, Omidyar Network
Omidyar Network
Omidyar Network is a philanthrocapitalist investment firm established in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam. To date, Omidyar Network has committed more than $290 million to for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations that foster economic advancement and encourage individual...
& Landesa Board Member
Articles
- Tim HanstadTim HanstadFor the past twenty-five years, Mr. Tim Hanstad has led Landesa's institutional growth. Tim also has more than 20 years of experience in project management, research, consulting, policy advocacy, training and writing on issues of expanding land access, improving land tenure security, and developing...
. "Bridging the Two Indias." Huffington Post, September 9, 2011 - Tim HanstadTim HanstadFor the past twenty-five years, Mr. Tim Hanstad has led Landesa's institutional growth. Tim also has more than 20 years of experience in project management, research, consulting, policy advocacy, training and writing on issues of expanding land access, improving land tenure security, and developing...
. "The Myth of Cheap Land" Huffington Post August 16, 2011 - Calum Macleod. Chinese peasants feel bullied over land grabs" USA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
March 27, 2011 - Gao Yu & Roy ProstermanRoy ProstermanRoy Prosterman is Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Washington and the founder of the Rural Development Institute , which changed its name to Landesa in January 2011. He is also active in the fields of land reform, rural development, and foreign aid...
. "Country Strife: Despite progress, land rights laws must be strengthened to further protect Chinese farmers." South China Morning PostSouth China Morning PostThe South China Morning Post , together with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is an English-language Hong Kong newspaper, published by the SCMP Group with a circulation of 104,000....
, March 24, 2011 - Wang Jingqiong. "Land seizures threaten to disrupt countryside calm." China DailyChina DailyThe China Daily is an English language daily newspaper published in the People's Republic of China.- Overview :China Daily was established in June 1981 and has the widest print circulation of any English-language newspaper in the country...
, March 1, 2011 - Alison Craiglow Hockenberry. A Plot of One's Own: The Value of Women's Right to Property Huffington Post, February 16, 2011
- Clay Holtzman. "RDI changes name to Landesa, expands" Puget Sound Business JournalPuget Sound Business JournalThe Puget Sound Business Journal is a weekly American City Business Journals publication containing articles about business people, issues, and events in the greater Seattle, Washington area. The publication also publishes a technology news website named TechFlash...
, January 19, 2011 - Landesa. 2010 Impact Report January 18, 2011
- Kristi Heim. "Visionary's cure for global poverty rooted in the land." The Seattle TimesThe Seattle TimesThe Seattle Times is a newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, US. It is the largest daily newspaper in the state of Washington. It has been, since the demise in 2009 of the printed version of the rival Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle's only major daily print newspaper.-History:The Seattle Times...
, May 2006 - Zhu Keliang and Roy ProstermanRoy ProstermanRoy Prosterman is Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Washington and the founder of the Rural Development Institute , which changed its name to Landesa in January 2011. He is also active in the fields of land reform, rural development, and foreign aid...
. "From Land Reform to Economic Boom." China Business Review, July–August 2006 - Roy ProstermanRoy ProstermanRoy Prosterman is Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Washington and the founder of the Rural Development Institute , which changed its name to Landesa in January 2011. He is also active in the fields of land reform, rural development, and foreign aid...
and Tim Hanstad. "Getting down to basics in a fight for Children's lives." The Seattle TimesThe Seattle TimesThe Seattle Times is a newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, US. It is the largest daily newspaper in the state of Washington. It has been, since the demise in 2009 of the printed version of the rival Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle's only major daily print newspaper.-History:The Seattle Times...
, December 22, 2004