Radha G. Friedman - USA

Rural Development Institute
Helping Women Get Secure Property Rights to Become Self-Sufficient

The vast majority of the world’s poor live in rural areas, where land is their most vital source of shelter, food, income and opportunity.  For women and girls, access to land is critical, because they do 60-80% of food production, but own less than 2% of the world’s land. Without rights to land, women and girls are vulnerable to poverty, hunger, and violence.  After living in India and seeing farmers in her community killed fighting for their land rights, Radha joined the Rural Development Institute and helped create the Global Center for Women’s Land Rights, where she serves as Deputy Director.  Her project will create a unified community of practice through an “e-Library on women’s land and property rights” that will contain laws and resources from every country in the world, and serve as a global hub that draws together NGOs, governments, community leaders, academics and others to improve rural livelihoods for women and their families.   
www.rdiland.org

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