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Landesa Rural Development Institute is a nonprofit organization that partners with governments and local organizations to secure legal land rights for world’s poorest families. Since 1967, Landesa has helped more than 100 million poor families in 35 countries gain legal control over their land. When families have secure rights to land, they can invest in their land to sustainably increase their harvests and reap the benefits—improved nutrition, health, education, and dignity. Landesa partners with governments, world leaders, NGOs, foundations, donor agencies such as the World Bank, USAID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 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 through land rights. Based in Seattle, Landesa has program offices in Beijing, China; Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Kolkata, India. Landesa currently works in China, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, and Uganda. == History == Landesa was founded as the Rural Development Institute in 1967 by Professor Roy Prosterman, 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.〔Prosterman, Roy. Asian Survey, Vol. 10, No.8,pg 751-764, ("Land-to-the-Tiller in South Vietnam: the Tables Turn" )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Landesa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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